u/bonebagX

Here’s what got me looking beyond rock picking. My uncle showed me this a few years back but until recently I’ve never really had the chance to do much hunting or even learning about it. My grandparents built a house on the Menominee river in the upper peninsula, where there is currently a damn and a spillway and a small river/creek flowing in from the east. When this point was made, the area was what I imagine a set of amazing waterfalls and encampments. When they excavated for the home in 1968 they found this point. My grandfather was a doctor and his brother in law was a geologist for the state of mi. They sent some interns down to do some digging and found a few relics but I don’t have much more information on that. They did send this letter and a couple notes but this is all I have. Thought a few of you would like to see this. I’m sure historical knowledge has been updated since 1974 so any insight would be appreciated and welcome! Thank you

Third time thinking I found something and didn’t lol. So found this in southeast Wisconsin in a farm field about a mile off the lake (Michigan) near a small lake and creek. Could this be a scraper. I don’t believe this stone is from this area but might be just a flake? Thanks!

Ok very new to keeping my eyes open for native artifacts. I found this right next another possible scraper I picked up in a southeast Wisconsin (I’ll post that one later) farm field next to a small lake. I’m a fan of chert and while always grabbing it up on the lakeshore of superior or Michigan I’ve never hunted rocks inland. This caught my eye and with some searching I wondered if it might be a pre form point. What do you think.

Found this about knee deep on the north shore of superior. I liked the red design and tossed it on the bucket. Looking at it back home I was thinking it wouldn’t take much to shape it a tad more and I could make an amulet out of it. I looked it over a bit more and started wondering if maybe it was something at one time, axe or some other tool. What do you think? If not does anyone know a good way to smooth out the basalt on the edges so a twine could be fastened? Without making it look like it’s been altered? Thanks!!

My fist rocks that turned out shiny (mostly). I pretty much made every mistake possible. I skipped the rough tumble on these as I wanted the shapes to stay the same..so I’m guessing that’s why some had a very low sheen and the others didn’t get quite to maximum shine. Took out a couple half way through the final stage as I realized they were shedding material and causing lackluster results..started final over. Purchased a separate bowl and ceramic media for final..but went from 500-raybright as I missed the note about having to run at 1200 for a couple days. Again, that didn’t help. At this point I’m happy with them but I’m wondering if going back and running them a couple days at 1200 and then doing the raybright again would make them pop even more. I’m using a raytech tumble vibe 10 and and ultrasonic cleaner in between stages for the rocks with cracks and holes. Also using borax. Most all of these are from superior, a few from Michigan and some of the fat guys from farm fields. Thanks!!

Found this a couple years ago on superior near little girls point after a storm and it’s my favorite rock. It was more beautiful until I tried to polish it by hand and it dulled the pattern. Some day I may be able to polish it with a cab polisher but for now, it’s still a very cool piece. Is there a name for this or is it just a piece of basalt with a pattern?