Sierra antiquities in the backcountry

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Sierra antiquities in the backcountry

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I would like to see what you have run across in the backcountry that may have historical/pre historical significance; rock art, points, shelters, rock alignments, cans etc. All of these items are of course protected under the antiquities act and must stay where you find them. Please don't include images of artifacts removed from the backcountry.

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I don't have a picture, but I found an old circa 1800's Winchester rifle in Tehipite Valley. The stock is gone and the steel is severely rusted, but it lay where I found it. There is also an old stone stove held together with mortar and some old steel pipes as well. Has to be a turn of the century hardened campsite. Perhaps sheep herders or gold prospectors.
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that sounds pretty cool for certain. I know of a flintlock in SEKI as well. I have to wonder what happened to the guys that left those guns, it's not something you would leave behind back then?
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Hard to say. Maybe it was easier, cheaper, or more expedient to just buy another if the stock broke. I imagine it would be one of those things you couldn't do without for longer than needed.
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Ancient hand hewn basins used for collecting salt:
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Wow Russ, just looked thru your link-that's an amazing site.
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Wall of rock art in Yosemite...

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Mortar in Yosemite...
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The third pic down is a "hickey bar" used to bend steel rebar, or pipe that one of course looks very old, but the design is virtually unchanged in modern hickeys today
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A pile of chopped wood 150 years old

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Old wagon wheel

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Pieces of an old winnowing basket

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An old miners camp

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Thanks for that Sparky, but here are a couple of closer pics. The flat end looked to have been riveted to something, and the looped end isn't forged closed very tightly. It was also of rather 'delicate" forgery.
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