From: Clydebow
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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I found this while walking one of the areas I have hunted for 50 years. It was laying right on top the silt, in plain view, in one of a couple of three foot deep run offs that meet to form a small creek to the lake in this area. I was looking for a spot to hop across, when I looked down and saw it. Except for a couple items I have found in an overhang a couple blocks from my house at the lake we live near, this is how I have come by the other stuff I have found. Sometimes it pays to look down! I put an Ace broadhead next to it for comparison. The Ace with the adapter is 175 grns. The arrowhead is 336 grns.
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From: chazz847
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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WOW!! Nice find.
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From: tonto59
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Yes nice find indeed! That's a beauty! I would look around that same area some more. Good luck!
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From: jrstegner
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Cool! Looks to be a snapped base Adena. Late archaic to woodland period. Probably an atlatl dart point.
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From: GF
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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See?
UEFOC. Ain’t nuthin’ New about it!
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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I agree with an Adena atlatl point. Too big for an arrow head.
Search the high ground sandy areas on your land.
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From: South Farm
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Nice find! Finding an arrowhead is still an exciting boyhood dream of mine. Someday..
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Sorry, that is a GREAT find. I have yet to find a point in Michigan but I have found many on the desert.
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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This is in Southern Illinois. I found it in a wooded area sloping down to a man made lake about one hundred yards away. Before that, there was a valley there that was dammed to make the lake. That lake is 120 ft deep in spots. Just as the lake were I live, there would have been many rocky bluffs and deep overhangs before being flooded. There are numerous old home sites, abandoned cemeteries, and old road beds that disappear into that water. The flat area above the overhang near my house has carvings that include a fox, an arrow, a cowboy with a cigarette in his mouth, and some initials with the date Dec 24, 1918. I have found two small points and a flat grind stone there that have worked there way up to the surface. There's two good sized rocks you can sit on. If I start pawing the dirt and leaves away in front of one of them where the ground starts to slope to the water, I start finding small chips scattered around.
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From: Ranger193
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Did you look which way it was pointing? Could have been a sign for you. Ha
Very cool find. I used to spend hours looking for them and have a pretty good collection.
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From: Vaguely
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Nice!!!
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From: joe vt
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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That is wicked cool!!!
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From: Pa Steve
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Very cool. Good eyes:)
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From: Tom McCool
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Great find! I would be thrilled!
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From: Buzz
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Cool.
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From: Bjrogg
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Very nice find. I'd agree that it's a Atlatl point. Wouldn't it be great if it could talk? Imagine the hunting stories it could tell.
Bjrogg
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From: timex
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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I live on the eastern shore of VA & friends of mine do a lot of arrowhead - artifact hunting & according to them only the smallest heads were arrow heads the bows did not have enough energy to push a big wide head through hide the majority of big heads were used on spears
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From: CStyles
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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I live 30 miles west of Chicago and found a very similar point in my back yard. I was sitting in a chair making arrow shafts, noticed the the point on the ground by my left foot. Not in the dirt, just sitting there. Happened to also be my 50th birthday. Check out the pic, looks a lot like yours. Ignore the copper wire, did that so I can display it. Chuck S
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From: John Horvers
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Looking at the edge closest to the broad head, I see what appear to be “use” marks ( the side of the blade has been used) which indicates it was used as a knife and not a projectile point.
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From: RonG
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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You guys have got it all wrong, that is an Ace broadhead from a couple hundred years ago. Notice the similarities.
I knew those folks have been around for a long time, this confirms it.
Chuckle!
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From: Rigs
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Nice!
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From: bodymanbowyer
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Awesome find. I was doing dishes at a conference last weekend. And I found these in the windowsill. They were found down the lane in a field. Kool. JF
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From: Woods Walker
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Are you near any Mound sites Clydebow? I hunt a farm in west central Illinois in the Illinois River bluffs and that area is loaded with Mound artifacts.
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From: Oly
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Date: 13-Sep-18 |
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Found this one in New Mexico last week during elk hunt... found several other broken shards and partial arrow & spear heads as well, but this was the best... pretty cool knowing I was walking in the footsteps of hunters of yesteryear.
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From: SJR Bows
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Great find!!!!
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From: neuse
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Nice find. I spend so much time looking down I forget to look for deer. Arrowheads and rocks amaze me.
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From: sir misalots
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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A farmers wife that attends our church has a large arrowhead collection they have accumulated over the years at there farm
Love to know the stories/history behind these discoveries
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Lou, I used to live in Granite City near Cahokia Mounds. I now live at Lake Egypt, I have found a few things on a farm near the Hartford Canal where a friend and I used to groundhog hunt. I have a perfect ax head I found while stump shooting on the bluffs over the Missouri River.
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From: sammyg
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Great find, I had a load of limestone gravel delivered to my old house years ago to expand my driveway. After having it spread I was standing there on the gravel pad talking with a buddy that stopped by and happened to look down, this was laying there in the gravel.
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From: Sawtooth (Original)
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Cool point!! If you lived where I do you would find a lot more of them, because I assure you- you’d constantly be looking down!! Diamondbacks.
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From: MStyles
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Very cool!
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From: reb
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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Nice!
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From: deerhunt51
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Date: 14-Sep-18 |
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I agree to heavy/large for an arrowhead, very cool. Nice find!
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