Arrowhead and other historic/pre-historic collections

[Hoytvectrix]

Any luck busting them yet? Do you know who he is?

The Sheriff will prosecute every time they are caught in the act. It can be a challenge to make that happen, even with cell cams.
We know who two of the four are and the Sheriff is tracking them down to have a conversation first.

 

[Mortenson]

Good luck Hoyt. Makes my skin crawl to think if they found a cumberland in your creek.

 

[Catscratch]

Good luck! Next door neighbor had NR trespassers during bow season, and now he has arrowhead hunters trespassing. I'm around more than him so I take care of it if I can, but I can't press charges. Just run them off. It's frustrating at best. I don't understand sneaking around and taking what's not yours

 

[Mozark]

Found another little black point. I don't see much about them in print. Kind of wish I knew more.

And a scrapper or preform.
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Great find Cat, are all three of those small dark points uniface?

 

[Catscratch]

Great find Cat, are all three of those small dark points uniface?

No. I've only kept one of the black ones that was unifaced (it had a curve to it, wasn't straight). The rest of them have been worked equally on both sides.

 

[Mozark]

6 7th

No. I've only kept one of the black ones that was unifaced (it had a curve to it, wasn't straight). The rest of them have been worked equally on both sides.

Can you show the edge geometry? I know this picture sucks, it is from a catche blade, it shows the unfinished edge though, I suspect they made caches of ufinished arrow points as well, not something I know much about.

 

[Catscratch]

6 7th

Can you show the edge geometry? I know this picture sucks, it is from a catche blade, it shows the unfinished edge though, I suspect they made caches of ufinished arrow points as well, not something I know much about.View attachment 79296

I think this is the best I can do for pics. Do they tell you anything? Wouldn't a cache of unfinished points be the same as preforms? These are pretty small. Not sure they could do much more to them?

 

[Catscratch]

The one thats unifaced, but with an obvious curve to it. And the smooth side is very smooth. Almost like they wanted (or made it) that way.

 

[H20fwler]

I've mentioned this a few times before, but we have much more trespassing by people arrowhead hunting than anything else. This shitcricker visited 3 times in 3 weeks this spring. Fortunately, local law enforcement is taking these things a little more seriously than they have in the past.

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I would put up a camera that sends pics/vids direct to my phone live. Then catch them on the property and go full on Comanche crazy on them.

 

[Mozark]

Sorry Cat, I havnt had much luck with an ID. The points are so small, the only thing I can come up with is Lerma, which has small points as well. I have no experience with that type.