The name of the song is “The River is Wide”.

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Well I appreciate you watching my three year old video! Hope it helped a little!

That’s great Colby! Make sure you keep them in such a way that years down the road folks will be able to know exactly where they were discovered. It’s an important detail.

You can email a picture of what you’ve found to me…[email protected]

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@@darrelllogan1274 I guess that is an assumption to be honest but it’s an educated one. Bannerstones were special items and you just don’t find them crudely formed, unless the aren’t completed. A lot of work went into shaping and polishing them, so to find one like mine, it’s pretty safe to say it never made it through those processes

I actually drove through Old Fort for the first time in my life earlier this year. Kinda random, was on a little trip and needed to mail something at a post office. The nearest one was in Old Fort. The place definitely had the feel of history about it.

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It’s speculation, but I recently saw a fella pull multiple out at a fire pit excavation. It’s pretty good evidence as to their use.

That was the most common guess as to its use, but I’m still on the skeptical side of that idea. For fire starting I think it would involve all wood components. Wood fire board, wood spindle, and wooden pressure plate. Some have said that the stone could be the upper pressure plate and the hole comes from the wood spindle wearing through the rock. But that hole was made by drilling from both sides and meeting in the middle…so that would require precise placement of the wooden spindle for that to occur. And for a simple pressure plate, I don’t see that. But it’s all speculative all the way around and I appreciate your input.

It’s all about location around here. I’m mostly hunting high elevation camps that were frequented before ceramics had been discovered. I’ve found more stone bowl pieces than pottery at elevation. These bowls were left at these camps for seasonal use as they followed the nut and berry harvest up into high elevation. The valley floors hold the large village sites that were formed after they became a more agrarian people. Those sites are indeed covered with vast amounts of pottery. The random piece does pop up at elevation but they are rare.

@@HistoryHoundDetecting Very interesting.

Hey Jerimy. Good to hear from you! Hope things are going well for you!

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Most all of them fall into into the range of Early Archaic through Woodland period. So the oldest probably go back around 7,000-8,000 years ago. Thanks for watching.

You know, that’s one material that I’ve never really been able to identify well. It is for sure native to our area but darned if I know what it looks like.

@@HistoryHoundDetecting same here.

I’m an “any port in a storm” type of guy when it comes to footwear. Lol

Oh wow. I’ve never heard of it before. That old be interesting to research. Thanks!

@@steveyounger465 I have often tried to match up points and have had very little success. I keep hoping. As fire as the holed stones being fire starters….I believe a bow drill incorporates a wooden spindle on another piece of wood…not stone… to create a friction fire. You’re not the first to postulate that thought though. I just don’t understand the application in that context.

@@HistoryHoundDetecting I was thinking at the top of the spindle and when they wore all the way through they were discarded...Just a though.

Oh! I see what you’re driving at. That makes more sense. The only problem I see with that theory is that that the large flat stone in the video is drilled from both sides with intent to make the two holes meet. That would require pretty precise drilling to make that happen. So that kind of excludes it being a fire starting cap weight that just eventually wore through. Just my thoughts about this particular piece though.

@@myradioon Pretty sure that a Guilford drill will be the type to pop up at this site. I’d really like to think it was one anyway.

@@HistoryHoundDetecting I found mine South of Asheville in a creek.

Guilford drill? I've found T-drills, spoon drills, pin drills, even a Dalton drill but never heard of that one. Must be the area your hunting,regional identity. What's it look like??

@@alanbrooke3237 Very low profile and some would say crude. The Guilford point itself is pretty basic. Google it and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Like your drills, most of them are made from exhausted or damaged points.

@@HistoryHoundDetecting I'm 68, been hunting with my older brother since I was 7. So Guilford found in what area? North Carolina?

Thank you Kathy!

Thanks so much for taking the time to watch!

Thank you! No telling how many artifacts have come out of local gardens over the years.

That’s a new one for me. I’ll research that. Thanks for the tip.

How you been doing man? Good to hear from you. I was just looking at an old lucky hat you sent me a few years back. Still wear it from time to time.

Thank you Clay. Thats a day we won’t forget!

Yes. When you encounter a site like a village site with large numbers of people, fires, and the proteins from cooking, wastes, and rotted vegetation…the soil darkens noticeably. This isn’t so much the case in smaller camp sites that saw fewer individuals for shorter periods of time.

Thanks for watching Erin!

I don’t. Many years looking but none yet.

I don’t have a social media account connected to the channel. Probably should though! Lol