Arrowheads
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Ricer2231
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motorbreaker
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Nice finds guys. I have only found one and I dont know what happend too it. There is a guy that lives by me that makes some
nice ones.
nice ones.
Ricer2231
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Nice looking collections Sam and JPN. I used to walk the fields for hours. I need to get back out there and do some more looking. Plowing season will be here pretty soon.
I remember the stories my mother told of using all the Indian ruble from the old Ottawa Indian village outside of Ottawa, Ohio between the Blanchard River and Riley Creek. They used the ruble to fill in washouts in the spring. I'm 90 yrs late.
Frank
Frank
Back in '73, I lived in Eastlake. Across from our school they were getting ready to put in housing, but discovered an old Indian community and allowed the school kids to come over and help excavate some.
I found a "rock" and showed it to one of the archaeologists, who told me it was a necklace and offered me $100 for it. I declined (probably thought it would be worth millions later!) and still have it.
Never have found any arrowheads though.
I found a "rock" and showed it to one of the archaeologists, who told me it was a necklace and offered me $100 for it. I declined (probably thought it would be worth millions later!) and still have it.
Never have found any arrowheads though.
I've never found any either. I don't live in the best place for them, but I would love to find one some day. I'm 1/16 Shawnee and its believed we may be decedents of Tecumseh. So I have an affinity for Indian artifacts and history.
The ones ones on the right are ones that I've knapped.
Flint knapping is another of a long list of skills I wish I had. That is nice work Mike! Are freshly knapped heads always that shiny? Is it the material used or did you do something to make them shine?
If I remember, the next time I go to Dad's I'll have to snap some pics of our collection. We have 6 nice cases framed on the wall and a couple on the ground with our best stuff. We have ceremeonial pieces, hunting projectiles, war projectiles, and lots of everyday tools they used such as axes, scrapers large and small, tomahawks, etc. Maybe one of my favorites is one day Dad and I were looking and he found an oval stone with indentation in it where you could tell they ground stuff in it. Only a couple feet away layed the same kind of stone that was oblong and fit the hand perfectly to grind herbs and whatnot into the other stone. It actually sits upright into the other stone perfectly. I always imagined those 2 pieces sitting together in there teepee or whatever they lived in while not in use. We've collected for as long as I can remember and I'm 34 years old. Up here in the flatlands there are a ton of good areas. If you can notice the most subtle rise in elevation within a mile of a creek then chances are you'll find artifacts. Right now is a good time to get out and look. I cant count how many pieces I've found during gun season just walking across plowed fields. As time passes though they do get harder to find due to more rotting of stalks and weeds adding to the soil depth
Milo
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i think i found a part of a necklace too. I used to build golf courses and man we did one that gave me the creeps we found so many things. we were picking up arrow heads running bulldozers there were so many and so easy to see. i think on one hole we picked up over 50.
Schu72
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I need to get some photos of the family collection the next time I'm down at my Mom's. After my Granpa retired from Wheeling Pitt, he took up arrowhead hunting as a hooby. Had hundreds in his collection, including axes, grinding stones, scrapers...you name it. Anyway, when he died they were spilt up between my mom and her 3 siblings. Mom had some of them laid into the decorative stone wall around the fireplace in the last house she built. I'll be done around Easter, I'll try to remember to get some pics to post.
Here is some of Ron's collection. Some he found and some he made.
He can tell y'all which is which.
He can tell y'all which is which.
Fullbore
Senior Member
The small frame at the bottom are the ones that I knapped myself. I use antler billets for percussion flaking and copper for pressure flaking. I haven't mastered it by no means, but it's fun to do. Flint is so expensive anymore. My FIL uses glass like Mike does. All of my collection was found by me in Morgan and Crawford Counties. Mostly Adena and Woodland pieces.
Dang Ron. Do people think you are depressed? I mean between sheds and arrowheads, you must never walk with your head up. People probably think you mope around, head down, all gloomy, EVERY day! lmao
Fullbore
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Haha, I hear ya. For some reason I have that hunter instinct, sheds,arrowheads,morels,ginseng,sharks teeth(at the beach) I just have that drive to search. Once I get started, it's hard for me to stop. Lol. I am interested in our history, and Indian relics are really cool. Indians were very resourceful, and didn't waste anything. I commend them for that!