Giving back the past

As someone who spends a good amount of time outdoors, be it hiking, camping, fishing looking for odds and ends or just sitting in the woods, over the years I've fond many things - Wood and stone for carving, dropped antlers, feathers of all types, old bones for crafts along with the ocassional artifact. From prehistoric-pre-contact projectile points and pottery shards to a shilling from 1745 with George II's likeness stamped upon it. Lots of Civil War stuff around here as well.

I've a friend who owns a large farm on an ox-bow of the Chickahominy River and over the years he has let me hunt, fish and hike his land. Every time I've visited this place I usually find an artifact. Most of these finds are either colonial or Native. My friend's wife gets every thing colonial, that's the deal we have, but I get to keep all prehistoric artifacts. Among these finds, a Clovis Point from the last IceAge, but among my collection there are spear points, arrowheads and other various chipped-stone tools dating all the way up until the Jamestown Settlers drove the Chickahominy People away during the 17th century. Once at low tide I found a round flat disk-like piece of slate with a carving of an animal with spikes growing out of it's back. I kept this for awhile, but did not have good feelings about this object and returned this disk to where I found it. Now when I come across something similar, it is left where it lays.

Lately I've been thinking about returning all the points back to this land, but plan to cache them all together in a safe place where they may stay buried as I could never remember each exact area where they were found.

I feel some of these artifacts have spirits that probaly don't belong with me.