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| Silver Contact Period Diagnostic Artifacts. Source: See Academia.edu link below. |
Those are the first two paragraphs of the article. Below is the link if you want to read the rest of it.
The silver artifacts and the chevron beads shown here are two types of diagnostic artifacts suggesting an early period.
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| Chevron Beads From Archaeological Sites. Source: Academia.edu link below. |
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
It would be easy to mistake one of those silver beads for something modern and less interesting.
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A Royston-area man turns up Indigenous artifact in his yard. The object seems to be a war club and has found a home with K’ómoks First Nation.
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| Sandstone War Club Found Under Fallen Tree in Homeowner's Yard. Source: See link below. |
Mark Lake was cleaning up his Royston-area yard last April when he came across an object that looked like it had been around a while.
He been working in a wooded area after an old maple tree had blown over. Over the years, he’d found lots of junk before though never anything of historic value, but what he turned up turned out to be an Indigenous artifact.
“I picked this object up, sticking out from underneath a young maple, and didn’t think anything of it,” he said.
At first, he thought it was a type of industrial waste. Once he got around to cleaning it, he realized it was some kind of carving....
Here is the link.
Royston-area man turns up Indigenous artifact in yard – Comox Valley Record
I often check around uprooted trees. Often there is nothing, but sometimes you will find something interesting. I recently reported on the Seminole Mild Co. bottle that my wife found while digging under a Pepper tree.
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| Source: magicseaweed.com. |
I can't remember a time when we had such a long period of one foot surf.
The water on the lagoon hasn't been that smooth.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net