History Found In the Field

[thomas89]

I think this is a fairly old style tin can. My dad said he remembers eating out of some like this in the 60’s.

I packed it out, but I only kept the rolled up lid as a little souvenir.

 

[Southern Elk]

That's awesome. I've got a shoe box full of arrowheads and one tomahawk head that I think 90% of them came from the same field across from there farm. Must have been a battle of some sort there.

Our place is in Mississippi. Sherman marched through there or maybe I should say burned and destroyed everything as he passed through. He burned our county seat. We are also near a railroad that was there at that time and soldiers likely traveled through on the way to the battle of Vicksburg.

 

[Stocker]

Out looking for sheds we were crossing a little ditch, I was telling my son and nephew to look at the gravel layer above the bottom of the ditch for arrowheads. I pulled a rock out and this fell out too.

 

[Dave N]

Out looking for sheds we were crossing a little ditch, I was telling my son and nephew to look at the gravel layer above the bottom of the ditch for arrowheads. I pulled a rock out and this fell out too.
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Nice one!

 

[tarheel]

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Found on some old stock tanks no doubt drawn by shepherds. These things were covered in drawings (most if you could imagine by lonely young men) and ramblings that I can’t translate. I believe the oldest one I saw was from 1950.

Simpler, harder times no doubt.

Most likely Basque shepherds hired from the Pyrenees Mountains of Spain. The province this guy was from is in the North of Spain at the Western end of the Pyrenees. I used to run into their funky little round topped trailers in the Rockies and on the rare occasion could hear them calling back and forth to each other from ridge to ridge. The last time was up near Grand Lake in CO. back around 1980.