Found Fossils, Ancient and Old Artifacts
As most of you know, we had this home built on virgin land, here in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. Outside a village first started by the Conquistadors over 400 years ago, who where searching for the “Seven Cities of Gold”. They’d brought people with up with them from Mexico, some of whom stayed to start this village. It was also hunting grounds for the nearby Pueblo Indians. Anyhoo, over the 28 years we’ve lived here, we’ve found many artifacts from people traveling through, hunting or heading to or from the village beyond us a few miles, as well as many fossils. Sharks teeth that are millions of years old are quite common finds out here. DS has them now. Two dinosaur eggs partially encrusted in rock that we’ve hardly told anyone about as we don’t what our land torn up with digs yet. An old pick axe, pottery shards, arrowheads, part of an old child’s (?) toy pistol, a rusted spoon, a flattened, very rusted and old metal food can, a large fossil imprint of a dinosaur of some kind’s spine, petrified wood, and more. DH and I love these ancient and historical connections to us and our land. I’ll post a few pics here, but was wondering if any of you have found any interesting old artifacts on your land or wherever?
Not the greatest pic of one of our dinosaur eggs, both are oval and around 7” long:
Petrified wood: this piece is very heavy and about 10” tall and 5” wide.
Part of what we think was a child’s toy gun, or perhaps part of a real derringer?
A horseshoe:
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2 months agoThe pick axe head. It’s about 16” long and quite heavy!
And this flattened food can that’s about 5” tall:
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2 months agolast modified: 2 months agoOh, Lynn! Amazing finds! Love these!
Our area is pretty rich with fossils, artifacts, and interesting finds, too. Lots of old barn and pasture finds.
The most recent was my little nephew coming over and exploring in some wild areas behind our urban back yard. He came running up with old railroad spikes! I can’t imagine how he found them, or why they were here. This one is on some stones we salvaged after a beautiful old cottage was razed for a gas station:
A few fossils we found at a local fossil digging place:
An antique cast iron Heller Bros hoof trimmer, on top of Mick here:
I have lots of arrowheads, some very old branding irons, old tools, bullet-riddled rusty milk can, etc. My dream is to find a Megalodon tooth!LynnNM thanked JinxLynnNM
2 months agolast modified: 2 months agoAnd, my most precious ancient artifact, although this one my brother found on his property in Indiana.
My family knows how much I love and appreciate really old historical and prehistoric things: pottery, fossils, ancient artifacts and tools, art, etc. So, my brother gave me this spearhead that he found when one of his very old trees upended during a particularly bad rainy season. I had it checked out by archeologists who specialize in that, and it turns out that my spearhead is somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 years old and in almost perfect condition! I designed this framing myself for it with the help of my longtime framer. It’s something that I’ll treasure forever. We have it displayed in our front foyer with some other artifacts and Native American pottery.LynnNM
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2 months agoWould love to find fossils or other cool stuff. My house was built in ‘82 in a subdivision developed in the 70s - 80s. Sometimes old shards of broken bottles make their way to the surface. Last year, an old rusty looking RC Cola(I think) can with the old style pull tab opening made an appearance. Guessing early 70’s? I took a picture before throwing it away properly.
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