Hunt for Arrowheads

[Old Painless]

I'm getting too out of shape and lazy to do it much any more. Finding one, even broken brings enjoyment. But getting outside in the creek is nice.
I still don't know much about them.

 

[TDM]

That’s a great point you found! I have done many things and had lots of outdoor adventures, but I have never in 68 years ever found an arrowhead. Sure would like to find just one.

 

[2 shots]

very nice. get the point.

 

[Buckskinquin]

In my youth, an older man lived near us. I was working with him one day planting grapes, all of a sudden he said, “Hey there’s an arrowhead over there”! A recently plowed and disced field we were planting in, he walked about 30’, picked up a clump of dirt, smacked in his hands, an arrowhead, claims he saw a certain glint from the sunshine. Found out later he had baskets full of them and other ancient stone implements. Near the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation south of Buffalo, NY.

 

[Gamechaser]

I've found plenty, my mom taught me what to look for

 

[mushka]

I was at a boy scout camp on Old Hickory Lake summer of 65 teaching rifle marksmanship and there were sandbar islands out in the lake. My wife and I would canoe out to them to fish. We found several nice points out there. A real nice Summer for a pfc in the army and his spouse.

 

[Gamechaser]

I have found skinning tools,mortar and pecils, weights for holding things down in the creek

 

[Tom A Hawk]

That’s a great point you found! I have done many things and had lots of outdoor adventures, but I have never in 68 years ever found an arrowhead. Sure would like to find just one.

Me too. When I was a boy my paternal grandfather took me to see a local man who had found a great number of points while plowing by horse. Since he was close to the ground they were easy to spot as the soil turned over. I remember seeing his collection wired to large plywood board. There were many present that had been made from exotic cherts. Flint projectile points ( we call them arrow heads but a great many are actual atlatl dart points) have been source of interest my entire life. Fast forward 50 years later, I tracked down this man's daughter to ask if if I could examine his collection. She informed they had been been donated to the museum in Hammondsport. I contacted the curator and arranged for a visit and was greatly disappointed when he presented a small box containing a half dozen points. These were definitely not the original collection. It seems the curator to whom the collection was given had moved on many years prior and nobody knew nothing.

Chapter two:
I know precisely where these points were found and have visited the location several times. While the area is now an agricultural field on a high hill, the location where the points were found is never plowed. It is mark off by a post and the section between there and the wood line is never tilled. I visited with the Rochester Museum and Science Center to investigate further. They brought out a topo map and asked me to point out the location. There were hand written notations on the map exactly where the no till section was. They told me it had been professionally investigated and had no further information.

Given the large number of exotic points recovered from a relatively small tract of land I now suspect the site was a burial ground and the museum didn't want me to know any more about it.

 

[JohnBHM]

We have a small creek that runs through our property and we have found two arrow heads. Both were found after a heavy rain had deposited a pile of small stone where a second branch comes into it.
My best find was 40 years ago when visiting my uncle in Las Vegas. We took his scout out into the Mojave and went on a long hike and when we got up on a plateau for a better view we found two large rocks that seemed out of place. when we got to them we found a couple of good size pieces of flint or whatever the stone was that the arrow heads were made from along with some smaller shaped stones that looked to be used to chip off and shape the arrow heads and a pile of broken arrow heads laying on the ground. We sat on the two large stones and you could just imagine sitting there as you looked around you could see for miles in every direction while you chipped away. We left everything exactly as we found it. Sadly I lost my uncle just last week, he was a former Marine, beat cop, police detective, park ranger, firearms instructor among other things and I will never forget the time I was able to spend with him in my younger years.

 

[Eutycus]

Brings back memories. When we were kids we'd head for the creek after each rain and see what was unearthed.