Cool Hand Luke
5 year old buck +
Any thoughts? Found this a couple weeks ago. Chucked it on the workbench and forgot about it.
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Arrowhead and other historic/pre-historic collections
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Any thoughts? Found this a couple weeks ago. Chucked it on the workbench and forgot about it.
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Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Outstanding find! That's nice!
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
No clue, but it looks like it was something.
Any thoughts? Found this a couple weeks ago. Chucked it on the workbench and forgot about it.
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Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Wheel off a pre-historic Lionel Train? or, perhaps a stone used with a bow for fire-starting?
Congrats on a great find!
Pitted anvil or nutting stone
Any thoughts? Found this a couple weeks ago. Chucked it on the workbench and forgot about it.
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Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
These can be deceiving. I find many rocks like this that look like they could be nutting stones. I believe most of the ones that I have found were from concretions.
Any thoughts? Found this a couple weeks ago. Chucked it on the workbench and forgot about it.
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After doing some research on this, it sounds like you can differentiate this with a hole from a concretion because a nutting stone will be very smooth within the depression from the wear over time.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
Found three that have been worked this past weekend:
Broken tip on this one. I am not sure what it originally was.
This is a pre-form that looks like it was given up on. It was worked on both sides:
Saved the best for last. Sometimes you have to get lucky. The hint of red jasper caught my eye:
Here is the last one cleaned up:
Broken tip on this one. I am not sure what it originally was.
This is a pre-form that looks like it was given up on. It was worked on both sides:
Saved the best for last. Sometimes you have to get lucky. The hint of red jasper caught my eye:
Here is the last one cleaned up:
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Seeing these ancient heads makes today's highly-engineered broadheads kind of "no excuse tools", wouldn't you say? No 2 stone tips the same weight, unbalanced, etc. Makes you wonder how often they ate!
Do most of you gents' finds happen along streams & rivers? Here in Pa., it seems most such artifacts are found along the valley floors along the Susquehanna River or its tributaries. Native villages here were largely on the flat lands above flooding limits. AG lands along the Susquehanna River are prime spots to hunt.
Do most of you gents' finds happen along streams & rivers? Here in Pa., it seems most such artifacts are found along the valley floors along the Susquehanna River or its tributaries. Native villages here were largely on the flat lands above flooding limits. AG lands along the Susquehanna River are prime spots to hunt.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
We find most of ours on higher humps in creek bottoms. Farm ground as it's worked and they become visible.
I suspect I could find some in the creeks but have only once (completely by accident). I've looked many times but don't come up with anything. I likely overlook them.
I suspect I could find some in the creeks but have only once (completely by accident). I've looked many times but don't come up with anything. I likely overlook them.
williams111
5 year old buck +
I have found most of mine up on high ridges in ag fields. Once the crops get too high this year to look, I am going to spend some time in the cricks/rivers and see if I can find any that way. It seems people on youtube find lots in cricks/rivers, but I have never really looked.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Lol, I've watched those YouTube video's... I don't see them until they've damn near picked them up. I can sometimes see a shed antler from 50yds away, or find an arrowhead in dirt that barely has anything showing, and find a morel that others walked by... but for the life of me can't seem to pick out an arrowhead in gravel.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
I wrote about where I look and what I look for in a few posts previously in this thread. It really helps if you have turns in streams and gravel bars around those turns. Water slows down and deposits rocks according to their size and shape. It can really help narrow down where to search.
I am confident that if you are finding them in fields, you will find them in the creeks as well. They are getting into the creeks from erosion from fields and stream banks.
I am confident that if you are finding them in fields, you will find them in the creeks as well. They are getting into the creeks from erosion from fields and stream banks.
williams111
5 year old buck +
We finally got some hard rains so the conditions are good. Found a few yesterday, this was the best one.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Great find!!!
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