Posted: 4/27/2009 9:25:27 AM EDT
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Found this just laying on top of the ground. I also found some small pieces of flint laying around in the same spot. I know that there was Native American activity in this area at one time. The area I found it is between a river and Lake Erie, and has always been just wooded and open fields. I find this stuff interesting and wonder what else is laying out there.   |
j/k always look myself when i'm out...
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delete your post and that arrowhead that your holding, it was passed down from your great-great gandpappy. You did not find anything else in the back yard, no marks of historical significance of any kind. -JTP This as picking up artifacts can get you put in the FPMITAP. |
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My ex-wife's uncle was a farmer in Cochocton County, OH. He had a collection of more than 10,000 artifacts mounted up and on display in his basement.
He took me to a meeting of the local archaeological society one evening. It's amazing what people find in that part of the country. |
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I have a couple friends that relic hunt. They have hundreds of arrowheads. According to them there is no better time to look for them, than when the Farmer plows the field and a heavy rain to follow. This is true. I used to have a farm that was in an area that had a Shawnee settlement back in the 1700-1800's. It was covered in arrowheads and a lot of people would come as soon as the fields were plowed each spring to find them. |
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delete your post and that arrowhead that your holding, it was passed down from your great-great gandpappy. You did not find anything else in the back yard, no marks of historical significance of any kind. -JTP This as picking up artifacts can get you put in the FPMITAP. Not illegal as long as its found laying on top of the ground. link |
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delete your post and that arrowhead that your holding, it was passed down from your great-great gandpappy. You did not find anything else in the back yard, no marks of historical significance of any kind. -JTP This as picking up artifacts can get you put in the FPMITAP. Not illegal as long as its found laying on top of the ground. link . Don't pick up artifacts on federal or other public land- the 79 antiquities law allows it, but they'll find something else to charge you with (USACE and the BLM really go after people for it). It is legal on private land, just get the owner's permission. Looks like a Hopewell point. |
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Went wading in my grandparent's ice cold creek a few weeks ago because I thought I saw an arrow head....
It wasn't, and the water was damn cold... 
I need to take an afternoon and just walk up and down that creek like I did when I was a kid, we used to look for crawdads and salamanders, never looked for arrowheads. It's a great crystal clear creek filled with flint. |
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It seems that arrowheads are easy to find near water. Indians liked to stay near it. If future creatures relate the same concept to me, they will find lead fragments and assume I liked to live near piles of gravel Can you blame them? Theres usually hot chicks in bikinis there. 
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