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March 2003

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From Dirt Bro Robby Johnson   from OK:

I'm a Surveyor in Oklahoma.  I had always considered finding an arrowhead to be pure luck.  I was of the opinion that they would be few and far between. So, with that mind set I never took the time to look.  Up until December of 2001.  I was doing construction staking on a job site that was in a hilly wooded area about 2 miles from the center of the town I grew up in.  The property that the site is situated contains about 88 acres.  The building under construction will be 8 stories with a 700 space parking lot and a 3/4 mile acess road that loops the building.  The acess road comes off an existing road on the west side with an elevation of 906 feet above sea level.  The top of the hill where the building is is 1014 feet above sea
level.  There is developement on the north (housing) and a Highway on the East.   To the South is open farmland.  Also to the East is a deep cut creek.

I began surveying the site in June of 2001.  That included a boundary survey, topographic survey, tree survey (located over 700 tagged trees) and some intial construction staking.  The trees were dozed in August of 2001

In December of 2001 someone on site asked if I had found any arrowheads, that they had found several.  My answer was no and immediately my eyes were on the ground.  I began kicking myself for not looking back in August.  Once I looked, flint chips everywhere.  I think I found my first that I could say definitely was a point in December.  I worked on site through July of 2002 always with eyes on the ground.  I've been back on several occasions just to look around.

Attached are the points that I found and some photos of the site.  I have a five gallon bucket of chunks of flint and several mason jars of chips.  Most of the chips I picked up before finding an actual point.  I also found about fifty large pieces of petrified wood and at about an elevation of 970 feet on several sides of the site large sandstones covered in clam shell fossils.

The black circle in the photo of all points is an 1891 5 cent piece found on site.  The smoke in the photo smoke arrow looks like a stem to me.  See what you think.
 

Thanks Robby, you are truly rescuing artifacts: Keep up the good work!!
Bob

Smoke-Arrow
Entrance Drive to Robby's site
Looking South
Looking West
 
 

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