Arrowheads

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Doug,I tried to post photo of the arrowhead again and it looked like it went through so I posted another and I think it crashed the page I kept getting a white screen with an error message .Same thing happened the first time I tried ....so I do believe it's on my end ...I won't try again until I get another camera ....I actually got a cell phone just for the camera and that is not working out at all   I'll get a camera for Christmas ....Merry Christmas to ALL

[Bluebark]

WOW..an arrowhead tread. Good to see all those nice point and artifacts. I love the stories that go along with them! I lived most of my years in Bordentown, NJ. Extremely historical area of the Nation. From Roebling Wire in the Industrial Age, Gen. Washington and the fight for Liberty to Joseph Bonaparte's Point Breeze estate. Also, one of the Largest Native American nations in the country...the Lenape. There have even been Palio/Clovis finds but non by me...lol. They were all my stomping grounds growing up on the river. The map displayed is basically the center of a Lenape metropolis on the Delaware.



Back in the day NJDOT and the Feds made the decision to finally join Interstate 295 and 195. They brought in the earth movers and started stripping the land around Crosswicks Creek. It was an artifact Bonanza!! Everyday a new layer was removed and every night we walk the dirt. They were everywhere. One of my buddies, the luckiest person I ever met when it came to finding things found, what I would call a museum piece. The only word that comes to mind in ceremonial. This was a sacred artifact all day long. It was a big double grooved greenstone axehead with two drilled holes at the bottom edge, presumably to hang sacred items like feathers, bones and shells item. The polish was immaculate. I can't even imagine how many hours it took to generate that kind of finish. This was all before cell phones so I have no pic. Maybe I'll reach out to him. But suffice it to say, we amassed a pretty big collection. A lot it was given to Abbott Farm House museum. As I found out later, my house was built right in the middle of the property which was vast back then.

I moved to central FL on the gold coast a few years back so a lot is still packed in boxes. But I did a little research for the area and I am smack dab in the middle (again) of Conquistador Ally. Man would that be a find!!

This is a small display made up of finer pieces I have found over the years...from early woodland to late.








Some tools...

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finding and displaying arrowheads is very cool, I wish I had even one haha
Does anyone ever try to make into a functioning arrow? or are the heads too fragile
Maybe like how we make old amps functional again

[shooter]

the neighbor guy used to make bows n arrows from scratch, he moved on from the 50 yard to 500 yard weapons 


IIRC he used quartz for the points, flint is in short supply here

[Bluebark]

finding and displaying arrowheads is very cool, I wish I had even one haha
Does anyone ever try to make into a functioning arrow? or are the heads too fragile
Maybe like how we make old amps functional again

Well, if you want one just let me know. I should be able to find one lying around to send you.  But it won't kick off the fever unless you pull one out of the ground. There is something magical IMO to finding something long lost and not seen for hundreds or thousands of years. When I dig and find a fire cracked rock piece...my blood pressure starts to climb and the fever starts to kick in. Then my 'ol nemesis OCD returns, and the digging does not stop until I find the fire pit.

I have thought of hafting an arrowhead to an arrow but I would never shoot it for fear of braking off the tip.

I remember walking through the woods looking for mounds and ran across a creek that cut deep into the land...maybe 5/6ft. down. I jumped down and started walking the creek. Low and behold, the creek had cut through seabed from the time of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event. There were thousands of belemnites and these big ass ugly clam shells. Other than caving in Puerto Rico, it was one of the highlights of my life.

History is sooo cool!

[shooter]

There were thousands of belemnites and these big ass ugly clam shells.

I trained some 90's teens to rock-climb, most came out of my Sunday School class they were in.  had a few on a trip to Seneca WV, we topped out, the kids are sitting n pretty soon one asks;  "Why are there so many sea-shells on the summit??"  I laughed, told them the flunked Sunday School.  I've been on many summits, you can find "sea-life" on most every one.


but points, haven't found a single one!!!

[Bluebark]

but points, haven't found a single one!!!

Where are you located? I'll do some research...

[shooter]

I'm in MI, and there are many areas around here, I already did my 5 years playing in the desert SW looking for hidden treasures, 20 years scaling the rock faces in the south eastern states, 30 years backpacking, canoeing, now i' quite content being a landscaper n gardener on my small piece of dirt leaving those adventures for the next-gen.

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I'm in SoCal where I think it is illegal to remove artifacts.
I will keep my eyes open when hiking....

I also was involved in kids "Sunday School" when my kids were small.
We called in Kids Small Group (KSG)

[Bluebark]

I have had my best luck following streams. You really need to think like one though. What would be a good place to setup camp out of the wind. Are there areas where hunting is good but close to camp. Are there any tributaries where fishing a weirs can be placed. Out of place mounds and hollows are good places to look. Fresh water is a good key.

I don't get the No artifact hunting thing that is sweeping across America. WTF...I think it is better to find and display these works of art, as opposed to letting the housing/commercial market pave them over...never to be seen again. Another Good for me and not for thee protocol. 

[shooter]

spent some winters in FL avoiding MI snow, was camped at a state park in the panhandle that had FL's largest waterfall and only oil drilling site.  Got permission to use my metal detector as long as I didn't Dig.  found a new area within the drilling site that wasn't mapped, found indication of electrical hookup, pot-bellied stove piece all without digging.  took the artifacts to the Ranger, he got instantly pissed, had me show him where I was, by then he'd calmed down, said it would force him to write up a report, the area would most likely get shut-down and cause him all manner of grief because some snowbird found what a 2-year guvmint sponsored survey did not find 


I quit asking guvmint permission made some coffee money each day at the various parks, sometimes it doesn't pay to "do what's right"

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spent some winters in FL avoiding MI snow

Haha me too.
I grew up in Warren MI and for HS Spring Break we would often drive down to Ft Lauderdale (place to be in the day). Drive 17hr straight, sleep on the beach until the partying started.

[Bluebark]

Shooter, you might like this. Took a metal detector to my back yard about ten yrs ago.

Toy shovels, pennies one dating back the the '20s and a silver dime. The toy lead soldiers were a cool find. Harmonica part and some hardware.



A couple of shoe buckles (?) and more hardware. And out of a trash pit I found in the back corner of my yard a turn of the century sleigh bell. If I remember correctly, my research point to Boston area as a source, something to do with the design of the hasp.

[shooter]

looks like my yard finds


this was a commemorative medal issued 1880's -1920's  sorta a "Good follows" kinda "group"  couple silver dimes, 19-teens wheat pennies old toys, farm stuff
the 2nd owners (I'm 3rd owner) ate tin-foil diners for YEARS!!!! so all over the yard were foil plates n such, which gives a false positive for silver on my detector.  swept the 4 acres a dozen times trying to clean up the foil, gave up

[Bluebark]

LOL...man what a cruel trick to play on future metal detectors.

I have been thinking of looking for old homesteads around where I am at. I always fount to be like meditation. Swinging that thing you get into a rhythm.