Post by jamesp on Aug 23, 2016 19:02:53 GMT -5
You would freak out about this little site.
I owned this property for a good while and was able to get to know it well.
The first time they drained the lake i noticed a 40 foot diameter pad about 6 feet under full pool. About 200 feet west of this probing site.
I mudded out to it. Freaked out, solid clay, dead flat and a 3 inch hole spitting out 10 gallons per minute off the edge.
I have a mound in front of my place !! Not so sure that they did not clay around the spring to 'pipe' it up to pad level.
Then not 70 feet out in the lake a big spring, but they never draw the lake that low. The shore had a radius concave in shape facing the spring. Typical structure.
Salt Springs run is 20 million gallons per day and has a 5 mile concave cove that it formed for instance. This spring much smaller.
They lower lake in winter. That spring is about 10 feet down. Has a rock debris ring around it.
Those rock rings are full of cool fossils.
(side note)Me and cousin saw a 'blow hole' in the bottom of Juniper Springs run while floating down it. We were kids. They can pop up anywhere in those creeks.
He made me dive down and collect stuff and put the rocks and fossils in the boat for an hour or so.
we found two what we thought were petrified logs. about 7 inches diameter and 18 inches long.
Just a couple of years ago his friend said wood does not petrify in this area, only bone and tusk.
He looked at the 'growth rings' and determined it to be a section of mastodon tusk.
This Rodman site is a woodland site(pottery) so 1000-3000 years old.
Have found peculiar shaped stone here. A chert 'egg' exactly shaped as a large hen egg for instance.
You can just sit there and see it all happening in your mind.
There was 1400 feet of shore front on this property.
The 150 feet adjacent to the mound and the spring is the only place artifacts are found lest they be random.
The micro topography fits the occupation of the people's inhabitation as you would think if setting up a camp.
Oddly, the artifacts above lake pool are under 2-3 feet of sand. Wind alters sand here heavily. Erosion from up hill.
As does burrowing creatures and trees falling and moving soil over several thousand years.
I dug down to the chert debris level on dry land above lake. Decided to let the lake do the work.
