Artifact hunting Ohio

[Gordo]

That's a good haul!

One of my good buddies and his wife are both archeologists. Not a great paying job, but they are paid to go out and find stuff.

His wife is doing more categorizing/office work these days, but he is still on the move about half the time. He travels the Midwest sporadically as work pops up. I always pick his brain about findings and what not. Pretty cool stuff.

I keep telling him to snag me a couple arrowheads!!!

I'll post some pics I've gotten in the past from him.

I could see myself getting into it. Just what I need, another hobby!

 

[Gordo]

 

[bowtechexperience]

thanks guys!! those are some sweet points!

 

[Fullbore]

Awesome stuff guys!!!! I love Indian relics...
My FIL got me hooked 18 years ago. I've never creek hunted yet, but I hear some good results and dandy points have been found that way! I know a guy that found a 4.25" dovetail made from translucent Flint Ridge material. I showed another buddy the picture of it and he gave it a G9 grade and offered him 800.00 for it.
My biggest thrill is to be the first person to touch that "object" in 500-10,000 years! How cool is that?!!!

 

[giles]

They look like rocks to me...I have a creek that comes through my property that drops some cool stuff when the water comes up. I enjoy going back to collect the cool colored ones and fossils. I have a decent sized fossil garden going and my deck is almost completely surrounded with colored rocks. I don't know anything about any of it, but I think it's kinda cool. Really cool to me how they separate in sections from the water flow.

 

[bowtechexperience]

Awesome stuff guys!!!! I love Indian relics...
My FIL got me hooked 18 years ago. I've never creek hunted yet, but I hear some good results and dandy points have been found that way! I know a guy that found a 4.25" dovetail made from translucent Flint Ridge material. I showed another buddy the picture of it and he gave it a G9 grade and offered him 800.00 for it.
My biggest thrill is to be the first person to touch that "object" in 500-10,000 years! How cool is that?!!!

im the same way, i love the thrill of being the first person to touch them artifact in such a long time. my friend found a g-10 double fluted cloves about 5 inches long last year in coshocton in a washed out ditch. its by far the best point i ever seen and he ended up selling that thing for 1500 bucks!! personally i could have never parted with it but im just glad i got to see it. if you would ever wanna walk some fields and compare some finds this spring get ahold of me.

 

[bowtechexperience]

They look like rocks to me...I have a creek that comes through my property that drops some cool stuff when the water comes up. I enjoy going back to collect the cool colored ones and fossils. I have a decent sized fossil garden going and my deck is almost completely surrounded with colored rocks. I don't know anything about any of it, but I think it's kinda cool. Really cool to me how they separate in sections from the water flow.

some of them rocks are probably old indian tools lol.

 

[Redhunter1012]

some of them rocks are probably old indian tools lol.

This^^^. Way more tools laying in the fields than people realize. I'm heading to Mom's today, I will snap some pics of Dad and my collection and post them up later

 

[Blan37]

They look like rocks to me...I have a creek that comes through my property that drops some cool stuff when the water comes up. I enjoy going back to collect the cool colored ones and fossils. I have a decent sized fossil garden going and my deck is almost completely surrounded with colored rocks. I don't know anything about any of it, but I think it's kinda cool. Really cool to me how they separate in sections from the water flow.

If you ever get real curious, the ODNR Division of Geological Survey has a cool service where you can submit your finds for identification:

http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/major-topics/rock-identification

 

[bigten05]

i love walking the fields the one field that we have found over 70 in doesnt get turned up anymore like it use to so its harder than hell to find them now. i showed my wife a bunch of them we found one day and she said whats the big deal, i told her nobody has touched them since the indians were around. she asked how do you know that, Umm because people dont throw them back down when they find them. its pretty cool to know i have taken a deer where they most likely use to hunt as well.

 

[finelyshedded]

Here's a thread Sam started a couple years ago that some here shared so of their finds over the years.

http://www.theohiooutdoors.com/showthread.php?11803-Arrowheads&highlight=Arrowheads

 

[Fullbore]

im the same way, i love the thrill of being the first person to touch them artifact in such a long time. my friend found a g-10 double fluted cloves about 5 inches long last year in coshocton in a washed out ditch. its by far the best point i ever seen and he ended up selling that thing for 1500 bucks!! personally i could have never parted with it but im just glad i got to see it. if you would ever wanna walk some fields and compare some finds this spring get ahold of me.

Sounds great! I live in Morgan Co. SE part of the state.
I posted some of my finds in Sam's Arrowhead thread below.

 

[bowtechexperience]

If you ever get real curious, the ODNR Division of Geological Survey has a cool service where you can submit your finds for identification:

http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/major-topics/rock-identification

i didnt know about this, thanks for posting!

 

[bowtechexperience]

Here's a thread Sam started a couple years ago that some here shared so of their finds over the years.

http://www.theohiooutdoors.com/showthread.php?11803-Arrowheads&highlight=Arrowheads

Thankyou, lots of good stuff in there!

 

[bowtechexperience]

Sounds great! I live in Morgan Co. SE part of the state.
I posted some of my finds in Sam's Arrowhead thread below.

ill be moving to western licking county in april, so we probably wont be real far apart.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Never found an arrow head but my father had about two shoeboxes full from when he worked the farm as a kid. (New Jersey). My hunting property in Vinton county Ohio was partially strip mined a long while ago but there is an "Indian mound" on my neighbors property that they were not allowed to strip mine because the native Americans used it. It is the highest point in the area and you can see for miles. The untouched area is only about 150 yards square, and a ravine runs from it to my property where it connects with a small creek. The water is only about 2-5 feet at its widest and only inches deep but the ravine is 20 yards wide. The entire area is undeveloped....just fields and woods. If what I've been told about the Indian mound is true, I gotta believe that there are lots of artifacts there. I've found some large rocks that look like someone hollowed them out. I'm probably going to retire this fall so if anyone with experience finding Native American artifacts wants to go check it out anytime after deer season, let me know. And of course, you can keep anything you find. I'd just like to do it for fun and pick up some tips from someone who knows what to look for.

 

[Fletch]

Being from Western Pa. in a small town call Ligonier (Look up Fort Ligonier), I remember my Dad always finding them in the garden. Where I live in Jersey they were building a park when they found some indian artifacts and stopped the construction of the park... Someday I'll go look around as its within walking distance of my house...