And it felt great, too!
With all the rain lately I was watching the lakes start to rise and submerge
all that shoreline I have, so far, only talked about taking a look at.
So I had to go.
And now, I'm sorry to say, I'm a going to share it with you. HA! All of it!

There I many places at Falls Lake I need to investigate more, but I had to go and see what's been going on
at my near and dear Barton's Creek.

Putting in just below the parking lot. Second pic is of the first inlet, an easy walk from the parking lot.

But that's not where we're going.
We want to go right down here and go around that first red clay point on the right.

Now since this a Woodland site, they made real arrowheads. Pretty little triangular points.
This also means the flakes and/or chips you are looking for are also real small.
So you gotta go slow. Which is good.
Seeing as how there is so much "soapstone" in this area you also want to keep an eye out for any carved artifacts.
I also hadn't noticed before how crystalline some of the quartz veins are here.
All fractured and blocky but very clear.

I like to make piles of chips while I'm hunting an area so I don't have to find the same ones over.
First pic is of one of those piles. The last pic is some of the quartz.
The rest are the artifacts found at this site.

Are you having fun yet? Well get a load of this.

I dock the boat on this last point, get out and toss the paddle down.
Look what's right at the end of the paddle!

And the artifacts.
The little quartz point is a whole arrowhead, except for the one bottom corner you can see is broken.
We will call it a "Caraway" and dates to the 18th century.

Allright, on the way out, (if you haven't left all ready  ),
you have to look at the Soapstone Shoreline!
Mixtures of talc schist and chlorite schist and mica and actinolite schist.
Some with more talc, some with more chlorite and mica, some just plain schist.
Kyanite, actinolite needles, radiating schorl sprays, and even rubies aren't out of the question.

I love the lake.

Thanks, Collin. Yeah, this was just for us headhunters.
I haven't been by the lake since all the rain, but I'm sure it's almost full again.
Jordan might be still be down a little.
Next time we're going to have to try harder to get our feet wet!

Great report again Joe.  It was nice being able to pretty much walk the shoreline along with you.  I've not seen so many finds all at once -- that was a good day.