What are some of the coolest Native American artifacts that you guys have found while hunting, planting food plots, or just stumbled across?

Some of mine I have found over the years.

Long Arrowhead.

Some days you just get lucky.

Found this deer vertebrae with a Brewerton point stuck deep inside it.! Boy was I Excited about this find. I was hiking High up in the Ramapo mountains along the Ramapo River. In a large rock Shelter. I was pulling out sticks and pulling out leaves. Pulling out rocks leaves and animal carcasses. Just like I’m pulling your leg right now!;) This is just a Replica fossil, I made. Looks pretty darn good right! I got you! Ha! Ha! The Ramapo’s aren’t that high!

Fluorite bead is killer.

Fluorite bead is killer.

Wow! That is a killer Jon. Nice find!:)

Coolest thing I’ve ever found was this axe head. First time I plowed up a 4 acre chunk of field in 2017 to plant corn. Never seen one this pristine. There was evidence that the blunt end had been used a bit. Found a few hammer stones and another stone that looked like it had been in the process of being shaped. It’s neat to think about what the circumstances would have been that this thing was left on the side of a hill (which was I’m sure wasbheavy timber at the time). There is a creek drainage about 150 yards down the hill, that I haven’t explored very closely in the 10 years we have had this property. In a few weeks we will own the property to the south that joins what we have now. There is another 1/2 mile of creek there to explore.

My nephew found this big point in my field. Has a chunk out of the top left as it’s held. Not sure if this happened during plowing / disking, or if it was during knapping.

Wow! Those are tiny points Jon.

Nice ax find Rob.

The several of the white beads in the middle of the frame are around 1/4 inch. The flourite bead is as big as a quarter which makes it rare.

My wife found most of the smaller points some of which fit on a penny. She had the "patience of job" when hunting arrowheads.

Jon does it require more skill to nap a tiny head?

About the same Don.

Nothing here...my dad grew up on a farm...almost everything that was found on the farm he grew up on...my grandpa gave away during the depression..(to museum people)My dad was pissed the rest of his life on that one.

Alabama (Creek Indian) artifacts. Some came from my yard.

Found these knives year apart in the same spot, when flight shooting newly made longbows. Both were within a couple feet of arrows sticking in the edge of a plowed field.

My first wife and son hunted artifacts with me on a regular basis on the banks of the TN river in Alabama, I had quite a collection.

I dug in the early 70s before it was against the law. One time several of us were surface hunting near a mound on Long Island near Bridgeport Al and saw where someone had dug a hole in the mound. It had rained and there were ribs visible that had been washed out. Being young and dumb we explored deeper and found the rest of the burial. The guy had 6 pots and three trophy skulls arranged around his head. We divided the pots between us and covered the burial back up to the original contours of the mound.

I wouldn't think of doing the same thing now but it was a different age and time 50 years ago.

A few years ago, I gave my collection to my granddaughter to keep it in the family. She was into this stuff, she even participated in a Mayan archaeological dig in Belise last year.

Because the bowl I found didn't have any provenance to prove it was of legal origin, she was afraid to take it for legal reasons.

I decided to donate it to the local Indian Mound Museum in Florence Al. The burial was definitely Mississippian but the bowl was Woodland, the museum had very few of these and instantly put it on display.

In the picture I am pointing to the bowl, it had tree roots growing through it and I put it back together.

Some of my finds when I was younger

Maybe this will be turned correctly

Never had a problem with picture orientation, oh well.

When my son was 5, he is 56 now, we were hunting artifacts in a plowed field along the river. He was about 50 yards away, reached down and then came running in my direction with a outstreteched hand. He held up his hand whe he got to me and said "Dadddy, is this an arrow head"?

To which I replied "it is indeed".

His spectacular Lost Lake has been the crown jewel of my collection ever since.

This is definitely my crème de la crème of my collection. A friend an old time Indian artifact collector. Gave me this Hope Well Monitor pipe. He told me he had gotten a few animal pipes over the years. That he had sold. He said this was the last pipe in his collection. You just don’t see these every day.

This is definitely my crème de la crème of my collection. A friend an old time Indian artifact collector. Gave me this Hope Well Monitor pipe. He told me he had gotten a few animal pipes over the years. That he had sold. He said this was the last pipe in his collection. You just don’t see these every day.

There have been some very nice examples posted. I enjoy everything I find. I even get excited when I find a broken point or a pottery sherd. I have given away several things. I have maybe 50 mano's left and I slowly pass them on.

What are you folks going to do with your finds? My family shows little interest in my stuff and I refused to give my stuff to a museum so they can store it in their basement in boxes. I am considering digging a hole and basically putting it back where I found it.

“I am considering digging a hole and basically putting it back where I found it.”

Yup, thats what I would do!

I don’t know Jon. I just think there is a reason why some guys look in the hot Desert. Or the river banks and farm fields. There is just something very special when you pick up a stone that was from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. You think about who made it. What he used it for. How he lost it. I think it’s something even deeper than just Preserving history. Sometimes I feel the arrow head or Indian artifact finds me. Instead of the other way around. I have my grandkids looking for stones. And they are always excited to show me their finds. Having someone to share that with is even better. Im blessed that my family puts up with my hobbies. I will pass my collection on. I don’t feel that I wasted my time looking for such things. I got to much enjoyment out of it. Like you said I get excited when I find a chipped flake. Because you know what you might find next. I hope you don’t dig that hole Jon :)

My sons like artifacts so I’ll leave mine to them.

Three stone heads. All with broken points. :/

Jon Stewart (above) asked, "What are you going to do with your finds?" I created this display showing the old and the new and prepared a brief explanation of each.

Willamette River find before ban.

Nice pestle Jim.

Jon , Every point we find will be returned back to earth that’s a given isn’t it? It’s in our hands for a short time and God already seen the gems before they were ever removed from the rocks we seek to find them in. I believe God uses our hands and our sets in our brain where to hit the rock and to make a useful tool from it . It was used as a tool for many years but we see it as Art as well. Pi can sit for hours just day dreaming like many here of just how and where it was used. Did it bring food to a a family ,used to protect them or simply a garden tool to plant crops? Always amazes me as well when I was a kid and walked a freshly turned field and seeing a point or a pipe stem poking up through the soil. Today many farmers won’t let you step foot on the land to search and can’t blame them but when I walked the rows I made sure I never stepped on any crops and only thing I left was my boot prints where I walked between rows. Today as I try to make my own from gifts that “Appear” in my mailbox my daughters and my wife love to see what I can make but I’m just in the beginning of this and if I ever get to retire which is unlikely I will spend even more time searching and knapping when I can. I was able to take several of the points I was able to make from the material gifted to me from my mentor to our oldest daughters collage this past October and made necklaces for several of her roommates there . A special young lady got a peach color one that turned out very nice and she is from South Carolina and I gave it to her on her birthday which was right after mine. Here’s that point .Its the one on the right sort of a peach color .

Beautiful, treasures

My last 2 years finds Right side South Dakota Left side Texas Didn’t find the big black one was a gift And I made the top right one

Found this a couple years ago doing some plot work.

Our local small town museum has a display of arrowheads in buffalo bones.

If you go on Flintknappers .com and look thru the different member knappers you will see Alan Altizer and his work he sells. Pretty nice work Alan. beautiful points

Ricky, Nokia, now that's a relic.

This is what I do with some of the pottery sherds I find. This is abut 12" by 16". I put them in frames for the wall. Better than leaving them in a bucket in the basement.

I cut the arrowhead design out of photo mat and use kids white glue to attach to the mat.

Great idea. Can't stand artifacts in a bucket Buddy in Texas has a lifetime of perfect points all in a bucket

Very cool Conversation piece, Doug. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Awesome artifacts yal have found

My cousin found this one when he was 5 years old picking stones with his dad.

It is very much responsible for my primitive journey.

Bjrogg

His brother has a very nice collection of points and tools. Most of them he found, but he has been gifted some collection’s from others. He has even purchased some collections.

They are some of his most treasured possessions

He takes them to several local events and shows them to others. I have gone with him several times and showed my bows, arrows, points and furs.

We compliment each other pretty well

Bjrogg

These are all really cool. There are cornfields all along the Connecticut River the whole length of VT. I'd love to try walking a few after plowing in the spring. There had to have been a lot of Native activity along this narrow valley.

I found this in West Central Georgia. I bound it myself and gave it to my wife. She wears it proudly when appropriate.

Suedog Thats a great find

Great thread!!

My grandfather found this spear head years ago. He had been discing his corn field when he had gotten down from the tractor to fix something. He looked over and it was sticking up half way out of the dirt. The field is a half mile behind my house. We have a Pawnee burial sight and former encampment that was discovered years ago just a couple miles to the east on top of the bluff overlooking the Platte River here in eastern Nebraska.

That is a pretty one BK

Bjrogg

For all the plowing and farming my father did since a kid and neighbors still do my family has never found many artifacts. We are all agate hunters, so many miles walked in fresh plowing or up and down corn rows too. I am always envious when I see the beautiful things you guys have found.

Years ago the county had just put new gravel down on our country road. I was making my way to the mail box when I looked down on the freshly laid wet gravel, and there, looking back at me, was a perfect 1 1/2" long stone arrow head. You wonder how those things can go through all of the gravel pumping, hauling and dumping, and still come out unscathed. And after I had been so fortunate to discover it after all that it had been through, I let the artifact gods down by losing it somewhere. LOL Maybe someday I'll find it again in a corner of a drawer. The stone head I have pictured above is 4" long by 2 1/2" wide. It would take one heavy arrow shaft to cast that head very far. Monte Browning would be proud. Thats why it must have been on a spear I'm thinking anyway.

Found this in a field around my parts but wasn’t sure if it’s a pick axe or some sort of hammer head / pick ? I’ll show a few angles of it for anyone who might of seen one before . It has lots of scars from years of being hit by plows I take it .

Looks like it’s been used possibly has a garden hoe ?

Last picture of the top I take it …

Forgot to mention this was found near the Choptank River and not far from where I grew up on Island Creek maybe 30 years ago near a farm I lived on as a kid someone found a “Dug out canoe” sticking out of the marsh or sandy beach if memory serves me correctly . I’ll see if I can find that article but it was found in Talbot county Md. area near the Choptank River ad a story was written on it . I believe it’s in a museum in Saint Michaels here in Md. It was preserved with something I think so the wood wouldn’t rot .

A variety of some of the points, a knife, and a metal trade point I've come across in this area.

Some of the artifacts. I suspect the upper left tool was used for making larger shafts for spears or possible poles. It is too big for arrow shafting. Maybe atlatls?

Follow-up: On the first photo bottom row, third from the left, there is a small, blue cylindrical wooden bead or ornament, it appears, with blue paint of some kind. The wood has aged, but the paint hasn't chipped. It was found near the metal trade point.

There is also a small roundish lava rock next to it with a hole drilled through it. The photo doesn't show them very clearly. I'm guessing it was ornamental, too. Or possibly it could be used as a button.

Gaming marbles and a few heads here.

Scoop Are a few of those obsidian?

Saphead, all the black ones are. That is our typical material in southern Idaho, with a lot of volcanic activity in the area. There are areas of obsidian rock the size up to grapefruits where they were broken in half and smaller by using other rocks to get smaller pieces to work with. The area may be no larger than your living room and the ground literally covered in large rocks and chips. Pretty impressive. Not sure if they hauled them a little ways to work on them at a central location or they were all there naturally. I’ve have found a similar area at an area used for winter encampment.

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