Album Unique, not seen finds - Post yours

[Antlerking]

I was wanting to start a post that we could share unique, not seen, out of the way finds. Things like Rock Art and Ruins. I found that IntrepidXJ has one like that, AWESOME photos in that post!

On this one let’s see your unique finds out in the hills and desert here in the West. Things that aren’t know about, or off the main trails, anything from ruins, rock art, Spaniard stuff, arrowheads, pottery and old western stuff. I’m sure we all have pics of things we haven’t shared. With that being said, you don’t have to post where it was found or what state it was in unless you want too.

Here are a few pic’s from finds here in Northern Utah that I’ve found, I know the one dwelling nobody knows about. The Shoshone Pictographs I didn’t know existed until May of this year. I just found them two weeks ago. I will give you a hint on them. They are in Northern Utah.

I’ve only shared these finds with close friends. I’ve always liked seeing photos of peoples cool finds and thought this would be a cool, first post.

Enjoy

 

[Antlerking]

Here are a few from down south. We found the petroglyphs in 2011. I had never seen this panel before, we had hiked 3 1/2 miles off trail before we bumped into them. HomerJ was with me on this trip.

 

[Howells Outdoors]

I like this thread, I'll be posting mine sometime soon!

 

[Howells Outdoors]

I had a video here...then realized it says photos in the thread title

 

[Nick]

I had a video here...then realized it says photos in the thread title

Nah, videos are good too!

 

[Antlerking]

Videos work just fine. The midget cabin clip was way cool. I need to get a GoPro so I can get some footage from my trips.

 

[Howells Outdoors]

I'll put it back then

 

[xjblue]

Perfect Little Point by xjblue, on Flickr

 

[intuitive cat]

found a possible pottery production site and/or midden pile

this first photo is only about half of the pottery sherds that were present. it was a mix of multiple styles.



this knuckle was also in the mix



the entire site was at the edge of a gully that was washing out. from below, one can readily see the layer of ash/charcoal in the soil



there were plenty more sherds precipitating out of the sides of this as well as being scattered around the entire area nearby.

 

[intuitive cat]

Historic midden pile near Balanced Rock in Arches NP - a totally random find that the park was not aware of.
I'm guessing it is most likely from the original campground...or else this is where Abbey was dumping his garbage


Balanced Rock area Historical Site by intuitive cat studio, on Flickr

and here is a geological anomaly also in Arches NP
strange, eh? anyone have a clue how something like this could have formed?

shots from a couple of angles:


odd formation by intuitive cat studio, on Flickr


odd formation by intuitive cat studio, on Flickr

 

[DAA]

Small medicine wheel, Keg mountain.

A gastrolith that is also a hammerstone

Old 1849 inscription on the Swell

A big one!

Small ones

And so on and so forth...

- DAA

 

[gnwatts]

In the upper right corner, in Road Canyon. Others have undoubtedly seen this, but it just looks like people (and a child?) falling to their death (or to some cosmic place), which must have been a fairly common occurrence.

 

[Antlerking]

Wow, those are some cool rocks and rock art. There's lots of cool stuff out there.

 

[Antlerking]

With all the cow pies on the ground I was surprised anything was still intact. We were going up a side canyon when we ran into all this on the ground. We were trying not to step on it, that is what the cattle hadn't pulverized. The arrowhead was laying in a old set of deer tracks. I couldn't believe it was still in one piece. I'm sure by now the cattle have destroyed it. This was back in 2004.

 

[Antlerking]

This is the rock hut we found back in 2001, the runoff last spring about took it out (my original post). In this one it was untouched.

 

[Antlerking]

Inside we found a pretty cool little fireplace with a rock chimney .

 

[Antlerking]

Geode stuck in a cliff face

 

[Antlerking]

Here's a few Petroglyphs we found this spring, we called it the "sex panel".

 

[Howells Outdoors]

Zion Skyline Pictograph. It wasn't extremely hard to get to this one, but the fact that this is about a 2 hours drive east of Zion I thought it was a great find!

 

[westy]

On the Colorado Plateau. 12"+ diameter.