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When we are finding artifacts everyone if happy of course but what about when we do not find artifacts?

During May and April of 2002 we had a couple of our best dig weekends since we have been having organized digs. Several complete points were found and a much better than normal rate of G-10 or near that grade of artifacts were also found. Unfortunately, during the same time we had a couple of our worst digs ever.

Let me preface this with on statement. There is no one person at a dig that wants you to find artifacts worse than I (Bob Mc Williams) do! Your success guarantees the success of our future digs and even the TAAA (if it were not for income from the digs there would probably not be a TAAA). So, let's talk about the bust digs.

At the Kirtley site where one dig we found 8 complete points on one dig and three the other there was some complaints that got back to me through the channels that some of the diggers were disappointed that we were at a site that had been previously dug and that the person before us had cleaned out the spot. This type of thinking is understandable when you are not finding artifacts. It is bad enough not to find artifacts but when someone else has dug in the area before you it really messes with your mind! A person can just picture the rascal that came before carrying of large amounts of artifacts leaving us with nothing! But, let me bring this all back into perspective:

No one knows where the arrowheads are. Not me, not the person that did the digging before us. He dug the top of that hill out and found some arrowheads all right. But he probably moved a thousand yards of dirt through an automated screen (sometimes going eight feet deep). I made the decision to dig there, not James(the fellow that we have been leasing from). James took me over the fence, we surveyed where the other fellow had dug before and then walked into the trees. Now if you had not of been there for Saturdays dig (bust) and knew the outcome, anyone would have said, "Look at all this sign! This site must go all the way down the hill and all along the hill!" You all saw the burned rock, flint etc. on the surface. All of this area had never been dug. In hind site and with being ticked at the other fellow beating us there it looks bad but at the time I made the decision I thought we would be there for the better part of the year! I was convinced that this was a big site that had only the very top taken off. Now we know it was just an eroded out site. There was no way to tell unless we dug it.

Never, NEVER go to a dig unless it is a proven site or unless you are prepared to hit the payload or take a bust as this one was. It is part of the hobby. Having the person there before us just makes a bust harder to swallow.

The dig was a one hundred percent real thing, it was just a bust. No deceptions. Remember, Karstedt Hill number 3 was dug on ALL sides and we have pulled scores of awesome artifacts from there. No one knows where they are - never.

I will do my best to bring you the finest artifact hunting areas available. They are hard to come by but I am constantly searching, offering money, advertising etc.

If you want to wait and see if a new dig site produces before you come that is fine, no problem but if you want to be the first to be there and possibly find some hidden treasures we would love to have you. If you want the real answer to this dilemma, just look at the collectors cases that come during the good and the bad times, you will note that their are the fullest and in most cases the finest.

Gotta go, there is a new site waiting for me to lease! Happy Hunting! Bob McWilliams


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