Originally posted by robtcorl A few.
On her 150th birthday year I spent my lunch break walking a field in north St Louis county hoping to find an arrowhead or other artifact.
The field was near the Mississippi river, so it seemed promising.
No ancient artifacts found, but I did find an 1821 dime with a tiny hole drilled it it. I still have the dime, it's 200 this year also.
When I was growing up. I lived near the Red River (in the USA known as the Red River of the North) . The area the Red flows through, both in the USA and Canada had a lot of activity in the past 200 years and beyond....American Bison, Plains Grizzly Bear, etc. ..... tall grass prairie of the northern plains, a number of First Nations, Trappers (French Canadian mostly..a lot from Quebec), hunters, early European settlers, etc.
So it was a 'happenin' area as we used to say in the 1960's. Anyways, I would every so often go down by the river bank and search (ineffectually) for items from history...arrowheads, early coinage...anything. I was not successful in finding anything, but I think that was more to do with my lack of archeological skills as a youngster.
But hope always springs eternal....
That 1821 coin would be a fascinating find in North America. I'm guessing that the fact that it had a hole drilled in the centre of, makes me think that possibly it was attached to a necklace way back when ?
St. Louis and environs is an area rich in history. I think of the Lewis and Clark expedition that set off from there etc.