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Found a pretty nice arrowhead today.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:37 pm
I know “Dear Facebook” but I will post a picture anyway. Was planting soybeans today on a new farm and noticed this little guy just laying there. Always pretty amazing to think about the person who made an arrowhead when you find it. He ( or maybe she ) had a name and probably a family and maybe lived a thousand years ago. Not many people make something that will still be around a thousand years from now.
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Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:43 pm to highcotton2
That looks like maybe a Fort Ancient type. Not really very old, but that's a beautiful color flint. Congrats. You can probably find a lot more close by.
Edit, I was way off on the fort name. It's not fort ancient, those are much older.
Edit, I was way off on the fort name. It's not fort ancient, those are much older.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:48 pm to highcotton2
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Always pretty amazing to think about the person who made an arrowhead when you find it. He ( or maybe she ) had a name and probably a family and maybe lived a thousand years ago. Not many people make something that will still be around a thousand years from now.
I always think about that when I find a real nice one, and try to imagine how came to be in that spot. Sometimes I make up stories to tell my little girl about them, so maybe she will have an interest.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:51 pm to highcotton2
I’ve never found one. Or a shark tooth. Random info
Posted on 4/28/21 at 10:57 pm to auggie
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That looks like maybe a Fort Ancient type.
Always thought Fort Ancients had square bases.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:06 pm to highcotton2
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Always thought Fort Ancients had square bases.
They do, and I already edited to say I was wrong. I am thinking about another type, that has fort in the name, but isn't as old. I use to have the really good guidebook for points, but it disappeared a few years ago.
That one has beautiful color though, and is a perfect size and shape to make a simple necklace.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:11 pm to highcotton2
You are around auburn??
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:14 pm to rsbd
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You are around auburn??
North of Huntsville.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:15 pm to rsbd
He's in N. Alabama, where the good artifacts are. It's hard to find anything good at all in this part of the state.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:21 pm to auggie
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It's not fort ancient, those are much older.
The oldest point I have is a fluted Clovis point that dates to about 13,000 years ago. Next oldest are probably a couple of Lost Lakes which are about 9000 yrs old.
When I first saw that point today I thought it was a Lecroy which we have found on other farms in the area. After looking it over I don’t think that is what it is
Found this river stone today also. This stone had to have been brought to this field because it is a long ways from the river.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 11:28 pm
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:36 pm to highcotton2
Have you got a creek or even a spring nearby that field?
Congrats on the fluted clovis, I only have a couple of fluted points and I have never found a complete lost lake, the nice ones are some really beautiful points. The older stuff, is just more nicely made. A lot of the newer stuff, you can tell that the skill was going away, probably about the time that the Europeans were showing up, and they were trading for metal points.
Congrats on the fluted clovis, I only have a couple of fluted points and I have never found a complete lost lake, the nice ones are some really beautiful points. The older stuff, is just more nicely made. A lot of the newer stuff, you can tell that the skill was going away, probably about the time that the Europeans were showing up, and they were trading for metal points.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:46 pm to auggie
When we hunted in Hurtsboro, we would find fossils in the creeks but no arrowheads. Now I’m in Butler right off the tombigbee, and people find a few
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:51 pm to rsbd
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When we hunted in Hurtsboro, we would find fossils in the creeks but no arrowheads. Now I’m in Butler right off the tombigbee, and people find a few
I believe the key is to be closer to rivers that were always easily navigable. The rivers around here were not. The bigger rivers though, had a lot of trade taking place, and you can even find points made of stone from hundreds of miles away.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 12:01 am to auggie
The property in butler is the highest point In Choctaw co. We were told it was a major trading point
Posted on 4/29/21 at 12:06 am to rsbd
Look real close to where little creeks run into the river, and any good springs nearby. If you see fallen trees look around the roots real good.
There are probably a lot of mounds there too, but don't dig in those. The Indians will come haunt you.
There are probably a lot of mounds there too, but don't dig in those. The Indians will come haunt you.
This post was edited on 4/29/21 at 12:08 am
Posted on 4/29/21 at 1:21 am to highcotton2
Here's a true story for you: There is a farmer that I am pretty sure you know, or at least know of, has some land in East limestone County, that has a big beautiful spring on it. I mean like breath taking beautiful. Probably about 30 years ago, they built up a dike on the NW corner of it so they could have a little more dry land over there.
Probably about a year after they did that, my youngest brother was home on leave from the navy, and he mentioned that he had never been to that spring. I took him down to see it right then and there. As we were walking on the road on top of the dike, everywhere you look are broken points that were pushed in by the dozer, but I'm looking for complete ones, and I am just scanning that road close.
My brother get's just far enough ahead of me, he see's the spring a couple of seconds before I get there, and he just yells out that he can't believe it, and how beautiful it is. After a few seconds he says " I bet the Indians loved this place, I bet you can find some stuff around here". I walk up and say "probably so", and I reach down and pick up a piece that has a big chunk broken off of the point end that is right beside his foot. I showed it to him base first and his eyes got big, and he called me a sombitch. Then I showed him the broken point and skipped it out across the spring..then I told him to look down, and he was amazed again.
That spring was only like a mile and a half from our house where we grew up, I had probably found that spring before I was 12. He was the first part of the video generation.
Probably about a year after they did that, my youngest brother was home on leave from the navy, and he mentioned that he had never been to that spring. I took him down to see it right then and there. As we were walking on the road on top of the dike, everywhere you look are broken points that were pushed in by the dozer, but I'm looking for complete ones, and I am just scanning that road close.
My brother get's just far enough ahead of me, he see's the spring a couple of seconds before I get there, and he just yells out that he can't believe it, and how beautiful it is. After a few seconds he says " I bet the Indians loved this place, I bet you can find some stuff around here". I walk up and say "probably so", and I reach down and pick up a piece that has a big chunk broken off of the point end that is right beside his foot. I showed it to him base first and his eyes got big, and he called me a sombitch. Then I showed him the broken point and skipped it out across the spring..then I told him to look down, and he was amazed again.
That spring was only like a mile and a half from our house where we grew up, I had probably found that spring before I was 12. He was the first part of the video generation.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 1:39 am to highcotton2
In my experience find one when plowing a field usually a bunch around. I had a whole shoebox full when I was kid from man that let us get arrowheads etc out of his plowed field. Had an axe, spear points, corn masher etc
Posted on 4/29/21 at 7:00 am to highcotton2
Pretty cool. We farm on an old trading community that encompasses about 150 acres.
Unfortunately, it’s right on the highway and is a well known spot, so it gets picked over pretty hard. Still easy to find stuff.
I don’t know a whole lot at all about Indian artifacts, but the highway dept moved the road about 6 years ago and they had to do an archeological dig to ensure there were no burial sites. This is how it was determined to be a trading ground. They found stuff originating from the Southwest, Great Lakes, and Appalachia. I’ve forgotten most of the detail, but have a 300 page book that documents what they found.
Unfortunately, it’s right on the highway and is a well known spot, so it gets picked over pretty hard. Still easy to find stuff.
I don’t know a whole lot at all about Indian artifacts, but the highway dept moved the road about 6 years ago and they had to do an archeological dig to ensure there were no burial sites. This is how it was determined to be a trading ground. They found stuff originating from the Southwest, Great Lakes, and Appalachia. I’ve forgotten most of the detail, but have a 300 page book that documents what they found.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 8:00 am to highcotton2
Really nice find. Thanks for sharing. Always neat when the earth reveals something like that. My uncle is an agronomist with USDA. He has found shark teeth embedded in the earth on digs in North Mississippi. Along with other fossils.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 10:16 am to highcotton2
Found these at out place in SW Mississippi
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