Anyone hunt for arrowheads?

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I've known for years that some of the property we hunt had a fair amount of arrowheads and such on it. We actually put forth some effort and looked for some this weekend while camping out on a hunting trip. I'm hooked.

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I’ve got a few I’ll post pics of when we get home from Billy’s. My dad had an incredible knack of just walking along and saying “oh look, an arrowhead”
 
My old boss man I worked for before I moved to the beach is really big into it. He’s got a Chesapeake Bay retriever that he’s trained to sniff them out and they are pretty successful in their hunts.
 
The large one that is fairly complete is a Kirk, the last one that is broken is a Savannah River. The names denote different time periods as the styles changed. Dr. Geoffrey Coe (Dec) from UNC have them the names after his work here In Montgomery Co. I was still wearing diapers when I started plodding through field looking for them.
 
MCQUADE said:
The large one that is fairly complete is a Kirk, the last one that is broken is a Savannah River. The names denote different time periods as the styles changed. Dr. Geoffrey Coe (Dec) from UNC have them the names after his work here In Montgomery Co. I was still wearing diapers when I started plodding through field looking for them.
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I've been told the smallest is a Morrow Mountain and is 6,000-7,000 years old.
 
Been hunting them since I was a little boy. I had a great uncle that had a dairy farm on a major creek in our area and I spent many hours walking his fields looking for all artifacts, including tools and pottery. We used to go to his farm to dove hunt and it was typically during or right after they had cut silage and I would spend more time walking and looking than dove hunting. After my uncle passed, his son moved into beef cattle and all the corn fields became pasture, which put an end to looking.

There was so much stuff found in one big field in particular that it must have been a large settlement or trading area. He had people that had been coming and looking since back in the early 1930's.
 
I knew people were still finding 'em along the Yadkin at the Rowan/Davidson Co. line in the '70's. Never been lucky enough to find one myself.

Then again, I couldn't find shark teeth on the Galveston/Jamaica Beaches, walking them several nights a week during my year long internship there, either! 😳
 
I’ve got a few friends that have done well hunting for them. I‘ve probably stepped on them knowing me. We’ve got a few acres that supposedly was Cherokee land at some point and a bunch of erosion in spots so they might be there. I‘ll need to find a buddy with a sharp eye. Any money in this or just cook artifacts to display? I wouldn‘t mind a cool display of such things at the mountain place. Old stuff is cool.
 
There is a restaurant in Ramseur just north of 64 on 49, a 'home cooking' sort of place that has a fabulous collection of arrowheads on display, thousands of them. I was only there once as the food was nothing special, but the artifacts were impressive.
 
Did it a lot when I lived in SC. The facility I worked at, and later lived at, had the oldest active road in McCormick, SC. Along with a plantation that dated to pre revolution when SC was frontier. And was on a Peninsula along the Savanah river and Cane Creek (IIRC). Lots on Indian activity around there. Found loads of projectile points, knives, and pottery. A piece of jewelry and some game pieces. A 3 hole nutting rock. A buddy found an entire pot, broken but it appeared to all be there half buried in the ground. Had a spot along a creek that was an old trash dump. From a distance you could see the bank change colors from all the pieces of scorched pottery. It was like gravel there was so much of it.

Used to put my daughter in a back pack and walk around looking for them.

Fun fact, there actually very few arrow heads. Most of those go on spears. What folks call bird points are the legit arrowheads. Which is why I picked up calling them projectile points from a coworker with a degree in archeology.
 
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These were found in the creeks/rivers around Newark Ohio from when we lived there. We spent a lot of weekends canoeing/camping in the areas around the Moundbuilders parks. I have no clue about the origin of the pipe (not Native American surely), but it made the "Best creek finds" display. There was another case like this one that was stolen when I took it to school for show and tell as a kid. 4BE0A069-2F36-46E1-AF65-8FE49B75B949.jpeg
 
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Love looking for arrow heads and spear points. Once you start recognizing the "bulb of percuss20210927_080643.jpgATT00001.jpgion" where they were chipped thay are much easier to spot. A small sampling of ones I have. Most of these came from the Kepley's Barn, Willard Dairy area of Guilford County, A couple from High Rock area. Once the fields were plowed and especially after a good rain, we would get up hungover as hell on Sunday mornings and "try" to do grid searches of the fields. The Italian trade beads in the one picture came from the Norther Neck of Va. Probably one of my best finds. Picture quality is poor since they are in a unlighted curio and I was too lazy to move them.
 
My biggest. I hunted around 30 minutes for the top piece but never found it. Moore County NC.

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My favorite. Almost surely a ceremonial piece, I don't think the clear quartz is suitable for use as a projectile point. But I'm no pro so...? Chatham County NC.

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Cape Fear said:
My biggest. I hunted around 30 minutes for the top piece but never found it. Moore County NC.

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My favorite. Almost surely a ceremonial piece, I don't think the clear quartz is suitable for use as a projectile point. But I'm no pro so...? Chatham County NC.

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What part of Chatham County?
 
Brangus said:
@BBD280

There's a guy over in Red Springs that has quite a collection and is a great resource to share info with. Hit me up if you'd like more info and thanks for starting this thread.
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He sounds like someone we need to speak to. Thank you, sir.
 
I worked agriculture in several eastern NC counties for years when I was young and found a bunch of Indian artifacts, as well as other things. It was always fun scouting fields around the New Bern area because there were all sorts of artifacts lying around that area from all sorts of contexts: from native Americans, colonial era folks, Tuscarora War, Revolutionary War and Civil War. A buddy of mine even found a cannonball in a cotton field near the Neuse River, right outside of Bridgeton. I once had a half gallon pickle jar full of old glass marbles I picked up on old home/barn sites.
 
That was my main hobby for years. Fields along the Yadkin River, especially if they were above the normal floodplain, were so plenteous with artifacts I filled grocery bags with them and pottery sherds. Good times.
 
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Most of the farmers around here do no till now days so not much area to hunt. I used to love to hit a plowed field a couple days after a hard rain. Many times, I found an artifact sitting on top of a dirt pedestal were the surrounding dirt washed away. I would like to look over some of the new development clearings going on around here, but they post them as soon as they clear the trees and I have no idea who to contact to get permission.

I worked with an older guy that used to hunt a creek that is now part of the Charlotte airport. He said that the creek was full of artifacts and old trade beads. Said you could pick them up by the pocketful.

My new son in law showed me some of the artifacts he has from down east, some he found, some of his dad's and some of his grandfathers. He also told me a story of his dad and another guy, teenagers, finding an old human skeleton in a creek bank that had some bear teeth and claws from a necklace with it. Said the other guy collected the bones and had a nearly complete skeleton under his bed for several years. He got scared and eventually put them back where he found them. My SIL's dad passed away when he was 3, but he still has a couple of the bear teeth and claws.

If anyone has permission on a good place to look and wants someone to go with them, give me a shout. I'm willing to drive a ways if it is a good location. I've also got a couple of metal detectors, but I'm no expert, that we could use around old home places.
 
Did I find my first one ever?

Dawn, Remi, and I walked down to the creek behind my mom's house to change the cards in the trail cams, and walked up on this. I tried to catch the detail, but I'm having a difficult time with my phone and the make-up of the stone.

"Arrowhead," or jus a roc?

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Could be the base of a projectile point. Hard to say without seeing more detail.
 
Okay that last shot makes me doubt it is the base of an arrowhead. Possibly part of a scraper, or just a neat random piece of quartz.
 
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Okay that last shot makes me doubt it is the base of an arrowhead. Possibly part of a scraper, or just a neat random piece of quartz.
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Kinda why I put arrowhead in quotes upstream.

I'm doubting it's actually an arrowhead, but was curious the likelihood this was made by hand or like you said, random.

I showed it to my stepdad, who said it looked like just a rock. I explained to him that he needed to shut up.
 
If this kind of thing interests you, check out Heartbreaker Relics on YouTube.

 
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