Anybody search for arrowheads?
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Anybody search for arrowheads?
Any of you guys hunt old indian arrowheads in your spare time? If so how many do you have and what part of the world do you find them in? I've got a little over 600 I've found in the South central region of Missouri.
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
I've found a few arrowheads while out walking my fields and out in the timber, and one time I found what I think is a tomahawk head. I keep them in a drawer in my "office". I've been told by a local expert that the creek that runs through my property was likely the site of a good sized village at one time. I also find old medicine bottles and the like. Of those, the most valuable (to me, anyway) was an early "hoop skirt" Coke bottle.
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I grew up in WV along the Ohio river and loved hunting for arrowheads. The abundance of Indian artifacts was amazing. Everyone I knew had at least one old coffee can in the garage filled with arrowheads and the like. When loaders were stripping topsoil for the new mall construction, you could literally walk behind them and scoop up a bucketful of artifacts. Sadly, most wound up buried forever under asphalt and clothing stores - treasures for future generations.
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From: Pampa,Tx
I used to hunt arrowheads with my dad when I was younger. He still hunts them. Has a bunch. Now he is looking for Calvery artifacts with a metal detector. There used to be a Calvery fort close to here in the 1800's. We live in the Texas Panhandle.
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I used to find them first rain after a field had been tilled down in the chesapeake bay area. At some point I stopped looking for them.
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In 1977, I left Denver to work as a carpenter in Rawlins, Wyoming. Met up with some oakies from moskogie, whom I met at the downtown hotel. Pretty wild and crazy times come to think of it. Well, one Saturday or Sunday, we went to this lake east of Sinclair, which was really difficult to get to, definately an offroad route; and we went swimmin' and drinkin'.
I noticed what I thought was little stoney/slatey formations on a berm along the shore. Anyways, I came upon what I thought was a strange looking redish colored rock, and picked it up. It was a tomahawk head. I tried to convince the guys that we may be on an old indian burial ground, or camping site, but they laughed and said I should stop drinking.
Anyways, I gave the artifact to my folks in Massachusetts and never saw it again. Don't know if it's up in the attic or what. But, I wish I hadn't taken it, as that place stays in my mind as a sacred place. But, after hearing the story in a previous post about the construction crew demolishing a site with all those relics and no one seeming to care enough to stop it for an archeological survey or something, I guess one tomahawk head and a precious memory should be ok with the spirit world.
I noticed what I thought was little stoney/slatey formations on a berm along the shore. Anyways, I came upon what I thought was a strange looking redish colored rock, and picked it up. It was a tomahawk head. I tried to convince the guys that we may be on an old indian burial ground, or camping site, but they laughed and said I should stop drinking.
Anyways, I gave the artifact to my folks in Massachusetts and never saw it again. Don't know if it's up in the attic or what. But, I wish I hadn't taken it, as that place stays in my mind as a sacred place. But, after hearing the story in a previous post about the construction crew demolishing a site with all those relics and no one seeming to care enough to stop it for an archeological survey or something, I guess one tomahawk head and a precious memory should be ok with the spirit world.
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I have found probably 1000. I have about 100 that I deem as worth keeping. Gave the rest away. Find mine in North East Georgia. They are all over the place. Dig down 2 to three feet on the river banks, or walk over fields that have just been sub-soiled and you find plenty.
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Originally Posted by Curtis'70
Any of you guys hunt old indian arrowheads in your spare time? If so how many do you have and what part of the world do you find them in? I've got a little over 600 I've found in the South central region of Missouri.
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Thats's awesome, I never dreamed to get such a response! It is truely sad about the artifacts being buried by progress, If you ask me we could learn alot about people who survived thousands of years with no written language, no protection other than a few stones and sharpened sticks, and wore nothing but animal fur. Good thing indians aren't around still, PETA would have them running around naked and vegitarians! Anybody ever had there arrowheads printed, or documented? I've got some being printed in a book later this year, pretty cool, my wife's cousin works with Paul Soreno off the discovery channel, spent years in college and he's never been printed!! Good luck guys and keep looking!!
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The prettiest, most flawless arrowhead I've seen so far was found by a friend of mine while on a deer drive. He was on the far end of the line, and had to drop down into a creek bed (tributary of the Gasconade), and it was just laying there where part of the bank had caved off. The last quarter inch or so of the point is a different angle, and appears to be almost a needle point protruding from the rest of the head.