jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Nov 20, 2015 20:10:40 GMT -5
Small creek w/pet wood broseph82 sent me. Excited. Will take photos.
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Post by captbob on Nov 21, 2015 0:22:39 GMT -5
Looks cold up there, bring spare dry clothes. Be safe & have fun!
You're not bored with coral are ya?
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Post by drocknut on Nov 21, 2015 1:27:37 GMT -5
Looking forward to the photos. Have fun.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 21, 2015 5:36:58 GMT -5
Looks cold up there, bring spare dry clothes. Be safe & have fun! You're not bored with coral are ya? Anywhere at 370 feet altitude and lower is old ocean bottoms or prehistoric woodlands makes for great chert/fossil/coral/bryozoan collecting. The coral was a later ocean at 100 feet altitude. All good to explore. Not bored w/coral, got a spot on the Suwannee that is next destination but high water has been a problem. Always wanted to check out gravel bars on Alabama creeks feeding lower Tallapoosa River. Judging from the names a rich native Creek population should also yield artifacts: Tallawassee Creek Pintlala Creek Catoma Creek Autauga Creek Tallapoosa River Chubbehatchee Creek Line Creek Cubahatchee Creek Calebee Creek Uphapee Creek Hillabee Creek Enitachopco Creek Little Hillabee Creek Harbuck Creek Emuckfaw Creek Chatahospee Creek High Pine Creek Cornhouse Creek Crooked Creek Wesobulga Creek
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Post by jamesp on Nov 21, 2015 6:50:53 GMT -5
Looking forward to the photos. Have fun. Thanks Diane. Will do a explore and find a good creek that will handle the little swamp boat. Then return and run up the creek and find timber clearings on 'above flood level' plateaus and ridge terminations. Rich artifact spots. This area has low human population and not so many artifact collectors and many timber operations making great soil exposures.
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Post by captbob on Nov 21, 2015 10:12:49 GMT -5
Well I take it you are feeling better if you are doing a road trip. Happy hunting!
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2015 3:13:05 GMT -5
Had a great trip. Scored very colorful quartzite stones. Got busted the first 10 minutes. Parked on the road and walked up on this old gravel pit. Fellow across the street asked me what I was doing. Told him, and got an invite to hunt his farm. Following him in: He is Stephan, on the right. A horse trainer and bull rider. He showed me around the 250 acre spot. Asked me to look at the arrowheads he had found there, met wife and 3 year old son Jacob. He led me down to the little river that I wanted to access, it flowed 1/2 mile thru his place. Clay sitting atop ancient gravel. Closeup of a gravel bar, all quartz and wicked quartzite. Bleached or frosted white exterior, but the inside of the quartzite... Better known as sugar quartz, Stephan's arrowhead collection and chip pile mostly of this high grade quartzite. Chips semi-colloidal, fine stuff. Butterscotch, root beer, strawberry, whiskey, smokey, cranberry, grape. Looks like hard candy. Southern courthouse in Tuskegee, the county seat. Tuskegee Airman and wire grass. Lots of antebellum architecture in Tuskegee. Sherman came thru Georgia and burned most of ours, these still stand in Alabama. Check out size of columns The day before I went to Birmingham AL to pick up 5000 pounds of fire pit covers and misc scrap from my friend's biz. He is closing on the 40,000 sq ft building after leasing it for 20 years. This creek must flow another 30 miles before it unloads into the Lower Tallapoosa River. Gravel bars the whole way. Not sure about the geology, guessing the gravel washed down from Appalachia. a layer of limestone is under it, old ocean bed. Pebbles smallish, will explore further for larger plates of quartzite to make chipping and breaking down for tumbles easier. I think the colors came from many years of stain from minerals/salts in water and clays. Got about 30 pounds of tumble ready material. Looking forward to tumbling this material. Arrowheads chipped out of such quartzite prized.
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Post by Pat on Nov 22, 2015 10:31:01 GMT -5
Beautiful country and great colors of your finds. Thanks for the tour.
Glad you are feeling better.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2015 11:25:15 GMT -5
Beautiful country and great colors of your finds. Thanks for the tour. Glad you are feeling better. Thanks Pat. Been looking for this quartzite for many years. Glad I got me a spot. Unfortunately the ole shoulder has to get surgery. Can sleep 3 hours at a time, then it hurts a bunch. Fine when not laying down. It will make the 8th orthopedic surgery over the years; James rough on the body. This area is swamp city. Lots of water and creeks. Soil very sandy, trees have stunted growth due to sterile soils.
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Post by herchenx on Nov 22, 2015 13:25:48 GMT -5
Wow, can't wait to see that stuff tumbled! Great report Jim and love the photos.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2015 14:12:34 GMT -5
Wow, can't wait to see that stuff tumbled! Great report Jim and love the photos. Make ya want to come back to Georgia John Herchenx ? Probably not, Colorado tough competition. Gotta miss southern accent and insanity... Yes, pumped about the turnout in the tumbler. Saga not over yet, this was first trip and it is close to the crib.
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Post by captbob on Nov 22, 2015 14:37:29 GMT -5
Nice pictures. Glad you're doing well enough to get out to conduct business and do some hounding.
You were almost to Ed's area down there weren't ya?
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2015 14:56:26 GMT -5
Nice pictures. Glad you're doing well enough to get out to conduct business and do some hounding. You were almost to Ed's area down there weren't ya? Thanks captbob. Yes, and Ed said he had do list to wrestle yesterday. Me Jimi and his wife Tonya headed back next weekend. Gotta teach broseph82 hounding skills. That boy ain't right. Will bring boat down when landing is found in future. We will have to chain Tonya to the boat, the girl is not a sailor. Come go w/us.
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Post by captbob on Nov 22, 2015 15:11:14 GMT -5
Probably be snowing by next weekend! Traffic on Thanksgiving weekend headed north out of Florida. I'd rather shoot myself. Thanks tho. Serious coral (big specimen type) hounding trip ... I'm Your Huckleberry!
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Post by jamesp on Nov 22, 2015 16:41:11 GMT -5
Lunger
Holiday family still around the neighborhood. Fayette County GA., Holiday house been renovated. SIL on reno committee. Two of Denise's great uncles were convicted of murder, LOL. Best to behave around the in-laws and not make fun of their lazy eyes.
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Post by rodeodan on Nov 23, 2015 11:32:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the photos, those houses are beautiful.
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 23, 2015 18:37:17 GMT -5
Nice pictures. Glad you're doing well enough to get out to conduct business and do some hounding. You were almost to Ed's area down there weren't ya? Thanks captbob. Yes, and Ed said he had do list to wrestle yesterday. Me Jimi and his wife Tonya headed back next weekend. Gotta teach broseph82 hounding skills. That boy ain't right. Will bring boat down when landing is found in future. We will have to chain Tonya to the boat, the girl is not a sailor. Come go w/us. Yeah, I was grounded last Saturday. Maybe another time I can meet up with ya'll...would be an interesting trip.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 23, 2015 20:55:28 GMT -5
Creme topping, Ed Intheswamp coming along, native to the turf. Looking forward to that day Ed.
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Post by djaxon on Nov 29, 2015 17:16:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the story and photos. Having lived in GA all my life and relatives in North AL, all of this looks familiar and homey.
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Post by broseph82 on Nov 29, 2015 18:16:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the story and photos. Having lived in GA all my life and relatives in North AL, all of this looks familiar and homey. What part of N AL?
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