While searching a small stream recently, I came upon this strange area of charcoal and fire reddened rocks buried 7 feet below the surface. I am thinking it may be a cooking pit, but really do not know for sure. This area was within the home range of the Mound Builders if that helps with a possible identification. Did they do below ground cremations? Did any of the Indian Nations or Tribes?
It's an ancient native American campfire.. I collect Indian artifacts and that is a very old fire pit. It will have arrowheads and such around it. Could be up to 14000 years BP. Awesome! Usually there will be burnt sandstone pieces in the burn layer as well.
I find these when I'm out Native American artifact hunting. Definitely a camp fire site and could be a home sight since its close to the water. usually when I find these I find arrowheads in the area. Many will be just sticking out of the bank and should also be washed into the water. you could find the chips from the knapping process as well if you have a good eye for that type of stuff. anything that deep usually will be from Native American era.
It's where the Indians cooked and ate the " white man " they captured ! My great great great great great grandfather lived in that area. The story goes , that he went out hunting one day and never returned. He was a BIG man. I'm sure the Indians had plenty to eat for a while!!! Now I can put my mind at ease about him. Thanks Beau for solving the mystery!!!!!!!!
+Aquschigger, you should think about reporting this area to a local university, because regardless of any flood washing that particular feature away, there might have been a Native American or Early Man village there. On the land above the stream (even seven feet down) there may be many fire pits still intact, evidence of how they built their dwellings, and other artifacts that can tell us how they lived. Even their trash pits can show us what they ate or what kind of tools they used and how they were made. Some archaeologists might really love to find out what is left there.
LOL! Son, what you have there is the hidden remains of a good old fashioned Moonshine Still Site and thats the "Furnace" part. They are usually built into a bank near running water. I'm in shock none of your Southern folks here figured that out……..
Beau, did you ever check with any local Academics on this subject? I'm sure a local Archaeology Department would send out a couple Grad. Students to check it out. (That is, if the recent weather hasn't totally wiped it out…:(
Beau, I am a geology student and live in New Mexico and have found these fire pits in the arroyos here. The Anasazi layer from Pueblo II (around 1,000 years old) are 3-4 feet beneath the surface in some places. The sediment accumulation is much higher in the east than it is out here. I'd say that fire pit was probably 2-3,000 years old! It's tough to tell without carbon dating because geomorphic relationships are very complicated. But if I were to guess, I'd guess around closer to 2,000 years old due to lack of visible soil development. Pretty neat find.
The stone you found: probably used for heating the tents or cave during the night. The two dips on the sides was used for carrying the stone from the fire (hot) to the tent or cave.
Beau I've often wondered how time it takes to silt in. I've seen videos where guys in missouri are in a creek and have that kind of depth or more when finding arrowheads. My question is, the steam boat Arabia I believe was from the 1800s and it's remains where quite a long distance buried in a field from where the river is located at now. I know rivers change as do creeks with time but how the heck can a steam boat from 1800s be buried so deep. Sorry for rambling just putting an FYI out there to think about. If you haven't already read about it Google it some time. Things that run through the mind make me say wtf lol
The charcoal pit doesn't appear that it was slowly washed away before it was covered. I'd guess that it's a mudslide on top of it (at least the part closest to the pit). I really have no idea what it is, but it's a really interesting find!
I'd use your metal detector and check if that area has a higher mineral content than immediate surrounding area. If so, it could be the location of a lightning strike.
Sadly Beau your guess is incorrect. Let me correct you. A lot of this type of thing crops up now and again and people automatically think it was a camp fire, cooking pit and so on. What it actually is: Take off location. Each rocket used to fly to the moon could hold around 2/3 leprechauns each. So they were quite small. As they took off it would burn the ground. Sorry to say but lately your guesses have been ridiculous, I'd be embarrassed posting this online and calling it a cooking pit. 🙂 Always here to help. !
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Hey Beau, I know you used the term 'Native American' in your video but unless your talking about somebody from India, please use one of the following terms in your title: Native American, Native, or maybe even American Indian. No hate, just avoiding confusion. Still love your videos! 🙂
Just a couple of things, soil stratigraphy along streams usually gets really messed up, but one thing is for certain, it does not take long to bury something that deep by flooding when so much surface area was exposed due to plowing and consequently erosion. Clay firing pits I have come across usually have wads of fired clay that held the pot but a cooking pit is quite likely and you might find in the charcoal bits of food that were carbonized or things like fish bone or scales if you look closely under a microscope.
I've found my share of native camp sites all around Ohio. I found a burial mound in Southern Ohio that had been partly washed out by a creek. I have a 8" or so fire stone with many holes worn in it from that mound. Others had piles of flint chips from making anything from spear tips to flint swords. Never a sword though. But different arrow heads & a flint mutli-tool. Never fire remnants though. This does look well established.
Do you have a local archaeologist/organisation that deals with preservation/recordings of this sort of thing where you live? Might be a good idea to get it checked out and officially recorded before it gets washed away for good. Sweet find though!
Oh, if you told us it was an ancient McDonald's, you know we WOULD believe you! Hahahahaaa
Did you ever go back and investigate that camp fire? Good place to sift near that.
That could very well be. Years ago I found something similar. It had some fossilized bones around it.
Cherokee smoke pit.
It's an ancient native American campfire.. I collect Indian artifacts and that is a very old fire pit. It will have arrowheads and such around it. Could be up to 14000 years BP. Awesome! Usually there will be burnt sandstone pieces in the burn layer as well.
You should report sites to the properly trained state archaeologists. You are a site looter. Plain and simple.
I find these when I'm out Native American artifact hunting. Definitely a camp fire site and could be a home sight since its close to the water. usually when I find these I find arrowheads in the area. Many will be just sticking out of the bank and should also be washed into the water. you could find the chips from the knapping process as well if you have a good eye for that type of stuff. anything that deep usually will be from Native American era.
It's where the Indians cooked and ate the " white man " they captured ! My great great great great great grandfather lived in that area. The story goes , that he went out hunting one day and never returned. He was a BIG man. I'm sure the Indians had plenty to eat for a while!!! Now I can put my mind at ease about him. Thanks Beau for solving the mystery!!!!!!!!
Most likely Paleo Indian. Report it to the nearest University. They will get out there and the a dig. That's important history right there.
Excellent for cooking snapping turtles I guess.
+Aquschigger, you should think about reporting this area to a local university, because regardless of any flood washing that particular feature away, there might have been a Native American or Early Man village there. On the land above the stream (even seven feet down) there may be many fire pits still intact, evidence of how they built their dwellings, and other artifacts that can tell us how they lived. Even their trash pits can show us what they ate or what kind of tools they used and how they were made. Some archaeologists might really love to find out what is left there.
LOL! Son, what you have there is the hidden remains of a good old fashioned Moonshine Still Site and thats the "Furnace" part. They are usually built into a bank near running water. I'm in shock none of your Southern folks here figured that out……..
It most likely is a modern fire pit that got covered up by a wall collapse.
Beau, did you ever check with any local Academics on this subject? I'm sure a local Archaeology Department would send out a couple Grad. Students to check it out. (That is, if the recent weather hasn't totally wiped it out…:(
take some home and sift it out
Beau, I am a geology student and live in New Mexico and have found these fire pits in the arroyos here. The Anasazi layer from Pueblo II (around 1,000 years old) are 3-4 feet beneath the surface in some places. The sediment accumulation is much higher in the east than it is out here. I'd say that fire pit was probably 2-3,000 years old! It's tough to tell without carbon dating because geomorphic relationships are very complicated. But if I were to guess, I'd guess around closer to 2,000 years old due to lack of visible soil development. Pretty neat find.
The stone you found: probably used for heating the tents or cave during the night. The two dips on the sides was used for carrying the stone from the fire (hot) to the tent or cave.
Boy Scout campsite, look for the marshmallow wrappers and the wire hangers. lol
Most likely a pit made by natives to heat treat chert/flint for flintknapping into their projo's.
why don't you called an argeologic man!!!
meteorite hit maybe?
Rock midden
Beau I've often wondered how time it takes to silt in. I've seen videos where guys in missouri are in a creek and have that kind of depth or more when finding arrowheads. My question is, the steam boat Arabia I believe was from the 1800s and it's remains where quite a long distance buried in a field from where the river is located at now. I know rivers change as do creeks with time but how the heck can a steam boat from 1800s be buried so deep. Sorry for rambling just putting an FYI out there to think about. If you haven't already read about it Google it some time. Things that run through the mind make me say wtf lol
The charcoal pit doesn't appear that it was slowly washed away before it was covered. I'd guess that it's a mudslide on top of it (at least the part closest to the pit). I really have no idea what it is, but it's a really interesting find!
I'd use your metal detector and check if that area has a higher mineral content than immediate surrounding area. If so, it could be the location of a lightning strike.
Cool find. Take a piece of burnt charcoal to the nearest university archeology dept. and they will do a Carbon 14 test on it.
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Sadly Beau your guess is incorrect. Let me correct you. A lot of this type of thing crops up now and again and people automatically think it was a camp fire, cooking pit and so on. What it actually is: Take off location. Each rocket used to fly to the moon could hold around 2/3 leprechauns each. So they were quite small. As they took off it would burn the ground. Sorry to say but lately your guesses have been ridiculous, I'd be embarrassed posting this online and calling it a cooking pit. 🙂 Always here to help. !
mr. quimitte sir i have a wonderful idea that i would like to share with you…but i dont want to share it publicly and i do not know how to message you privately or if thats even possible to do on youtube…… heres a teaser for you..it involves the dissappearance of amelia earhart and the tighar association they are a group of people that are searching for the wreckage of the airplane ……i feel like you could be a great asset to them….they do have a youtube channel …its simply entitled tighar
Is it possible it was civil war, and then some time after that, flooding dropped all that silt on it?
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Hey Beau,
I know you used the term 'Native American' in your video but unless your talking about somebody from India, please use one of the following terms in your title: Native American, Native, or maybe even American Indian. No hate, just avoiding confusion. Still love your videos! 🙂
Just a couple of things, soil stratigraphy along streams usually gets really messed up, but one thing is for certain, it does not take long to bury something that deep by flooding when so much surface area was exposed due to plowing and consequently erosion. Clay firing pits I have come across usually have wads of fired clay that held the pot but a cooking pit is quite likely and you might find in the charcoal bits of food that were carbonized or things like fish bone or scales if you look closely under a microscope.
That's neat Beau! Cool video.
The remains of Jimmy Hoffa hahahahaha
That's a great one Mr. Beau! Loved it!!
I've found my share of native camp sites all around Ohio. I found a burial mound in Southern Ohio that had been partly washed out by a creek. I have a 8" or so fire stone with many holes worn in it from that mound. Others had piles of flint chips from making anything from spear tips to flint swords. Never a sword though. But different arrow heads & a flint mutli-tool. Never fire remnants though. This does look well established.
that is very cool !!!!! stuff to get excited about.
Its a Time Traveler cooking pit that fused into the earth in a horrible accident
Obviously an indigenous peoples latrine that they burned out…
Do you have a local archaeologist/organisation that deals with preservation/recordings of this sort of thing where you live? Might be a good idea to get it checked out and officially recorded before it gets washed away for good. Sweet find though!
Ok Beau, find something at least 500 years old, then I'm convince.
Thats awesome!!! Happy Digging mate!
Gives Me Goose Bumps!
Sorry i didn't comment on your vids sooner, but i was camping. Maybe it was an indian hot tub?