Arrowhead and other historic/pre-historic collections

[Mozark]

My favorite point from dad, I was with him when he found it, although I wasn't very old I still remember.

 

[Hoytvectrix]

My favorite point from dad, I was with him when he found it, although I wasn't very old I still remember.View attachment 42535

gorgeous point! Let's see the rest of that collection!

 

[Mozark]

I will share share a few favorites, first pic all personal finds, St claire Co Mo.

 

[Mozark]

Next left to right: livingston Co, Carrol Co, St Claire Co, and Benton Co Mo. All personal finds

 

[Mozark]

And one from my grandfather, has a slight break in the tang, oklahoma

 

[Hoytvectrix]

And one from my grandfather, has a slight break in the tang, oklahomaView attachment 42540

"Slight"

Get the hell out of here! Those are amazing! Are these mostly surface or rock bed finds?

We are mostly in Putnam and Adair Counties.

 

[Mozark]

Dads point was a field, all of mine were creeks, the point from grandad was a surface find while farming.

 

[Jimmy G]

These artifacts were found mostly by my mom and dad into the 60's and very early 70's around I believe Red Wing,Minnesota.
My parents use to dig around different sites before us kids were born, I believe they thought it was some sort of wintering ground. They talked very little about their adventures and how they found them. My dad has passed away and mom's memory is sketchy at best.

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[Mozark]

"Slight"

Get the hell out of here! Those are amazing! Are these mostly surface or rock bed finds?

We are mostly in Putnam and Adair Coun

Most of dads family lived along the Chariton river just south of you, these are all family finds from that area.

 

[Jimmy G]

Some more arrowheads. I'm not sure where they collected these.....from friends,colleagues...don't know. My dad said something about being involved with the minnesota archeological society??? We could never get a real story out of him. The last pic says "July 20th 1895" and its a rock, really smooth with a hole in it....don't know what it was used for...

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[Mozark]

Some more arrowheads. I'm not sure where they collected these.....from friends,colleagues...don't know. My dad said something about being involved with the minnesota archeological society??? We could never get a real story out of him. The last pic says "July 20th 1895" and its a rock, really smooth with a hole in it....don't know what it was used for...

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The stone in the last pic is a gorget, fantastic artifact!

 

[ruskbucks]

Ill get a picture of it. I also have an elk rack at home that my great uncle found in a dried up slough in Central Minnesota in the 1950s. Its petrified and weighs a ton but still in great shape after all those years. Its a big massive bull. Who knows how long it was in that pond? 75? 100 years? Maybe 1000 years? would be fun to know.View attachment 42533
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Ill get a picture of it. I also have an elk rack at home that my great uncle found in a dried up slough in Central Minnesota in the 1950s. Its petrified and weighs a ton but still in great shape after all those years. Its a big massive bull. Who knows how long it was in that pond? 75? 100 years? Maybe 1000 years? would be fun to know.View attachment 42533
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That's awesome!

 

[Mortenson]

I will share share a few favorites, first pic all personal finds, St claire Co Mo.

Nice stuff Mozark. Congrats on all those finds. Is that 1st one classified as a Dalton?

And fishtail daltons in your earlier pic? Amazing.

 

[Mozark]

Nice stuff Mozark. Congrats on all those finds. Is that 1st one classified as a Dalton?

And fishtail daltons in your earlier pic? Amazing.

Daltons in the first pic, not the next one, it is actually related to sedalia. I don't think it has a type name, other than a relative or eared form of sedalia.

 

[Natty Bumppo]

Great thread guys. Really enjoying seeing these neat arrowheads and tools. Don't know a thing about them. All I find in New England are old bottles and barbed wire.

 

[Mozark]

Celts, adze, and misc

 

[Mozark]

Don't know if this is a preform or simply undrilled gorget, heavily worked and picked up in a campsite.

 

[Mozark]

Quartze pebble used for knapping

 

[Mozark]

Broken axe, reworked enough I can't tell what kind it started out as

 

[Mortenson]

Here's my dad's. Haven't found one in many years. I think that big one is 6 or 7 lbs. Would have to weigh it again. They found a 10 pounder up the road some years back.