Any arrowhead hunters out there?

Curious how many of you are avid arrowhead hunters. Post pics! Of course they must be legally picked from private land and returned to their natural position/location after admiring them.

 

I found these over the course of 4 years while I was in middle school on my grandparents farm. After the fields where plowed and a few rains came over they would be on top of the fresh turned soil. My mother, growing up on the property picking cotton in her youth, found one on an old cow path but never in the fields. I guess it just took several decades to uncover them.

 

Some nice ones! It is tough to find complete arrowheads too. Some people have the eye to find these, others don't. I really like that knife in the lower right corner of the first picture.

Sometimes you will find a tool that you can tell was created with intent... but you just don't know what purpose. I have a drill, it took me forever to figure out what it was designed for, then a friend explained it to me. I will get some pics up tomorrow. I don't have thousands like some people do, but I do have some nice ones.

 

I love going out and hunting for heads. Mostly do it in the winter when the grass is dead and no ticks. Most the stuff I find is broken but i still bring it home.

 

what happened to your toe

 

I found this in my Grandmothers garden forty years ago. It's a
Atlantic or Genesee points are Late to Transitional Archaic in age
- ca 4200 - 3500 years ago.

I had it examined by a professional anthropologist. o

 

Most of them will be broken. They hit the ground fast, and there are animals that trample the area, typically. What the heck is that on the right? Nice find on the left, I really wonder what it looked like whole.

Damn, I still haven't posted my finds.... Give me a few here.

 

That is an incredible find! What part of the country did you find that in? Surely, that wasn't Massachusetts???

 

The red spear point was not my find. My friend passed and left it to me. He was very happy to have found it! The last image is some kind of fossilized tooth, I don't know what it is from. I found nearly all of these on my friend's ranch. He never really took interest in finding artifacts, despite his perfect location.



The only piece I have found that is petrified wood... Might me a knife, a spear point... not too sure. My friend wanted this badly, so I gave it away.



Some pottery... I have a LOT of this...



Drill point, the top is broken off. It is directional, just like any drill you would buy from the hardware store. I had no idea what it was at first.



My favorite one... This one is almost perfect, and very, very delicate. It survived the elements for I don't how many years. I like the color and the craftsmanship. I found this in 1973. My friend and I were annihilated on Budweiser while fishing a creek. I just happened to look down and see it, just as blurry as you see it now haha.



I don't know what this one is... A bludgeon? There are tell-tale marks on it, it must have been made for something? It is a little smaller than my hand. No idea... Maybe I am being imaginative.





My friend John left this for me when he died... He showed it to everyone and always told the story behind finding it. I can't believe he left it to ME.



Some kind of tooth. It is thoroughly fossilized. The picture is bad, but it is really cool to hold in your hand. You can see where it was seated in the beast's jaw, whatever it was. I found this while working on a pipeline in Western Texas. Not an arrowhead, but I was looking at the time I found it.

 

The piece on the right is a broken smoking pipe, called 'trade pipes. A hollow reed was placed in that small end and the large end was the bowl.

The piece on the left i think is a Geary point. Common in this area. Most common point I usually find.

 

Dropped a 1x12 on it.

 

Saw this one while deer hunting a couple of years ago in California near Lake Edison.

 

That is really neat! I have never heard of anyone finding a pipe. Too cool.

 

Nice! Obsidian or black quartz? That is an OLD one too. Excellent find.

 

That was my first and only. It was laying in a sandy washout where rain water was draining down to the lake. Thought it was a toy or something. Showed my dad and his jaw dropped and goes "A trade pipe!"

The guys in the local archeological club say they aren't real rare..but finding one thats somewhat intact is rare!

 

Not for certain what this is. It's been called a boatstone and was supposedly used as a counterweight for an atlatyl (sp). Very smooth, kinda heavy and also has engravings along the side that kinda resemble a half finished serpent. Also found in southeast oklahoma.

 

I have some more pictures on the way. I can't figure out how to get better resolution out of my camera, but stay tuned. I will even post more of the broken pieces that I have found.

 

Obsidian. Very very old From what I've heard about it. That tail end tells everything

I believe this was the type of arrowhead
TUOLUMNE. A type of large, notched points, found primarily in the central Sierra Nevada and dated between ca. 1100 B.C. and A.D. 500. Tuolomne notched points have been classified within the Martis series. The type was named by Noel D. Justice for the Tuolumne River. (Justice 2002)

 

Haha, you will have to pardon me, I guess I don't get the reference. I am kind of old. I will watch the move though, don't spoil it for me though!

Let me guess something to do with artifact collecting and bad luck?... I shall see.