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Title: What a "Traditional" find!!!
Post by: longarrow on May 31, 2011, 11:32:00 AM
:D   While out on my mornin' walk with Koda. We were walking an old tree covered trail, up a steep hill. Koda was standing by a large rock, with her nose to the top of it. I just happened to look down at what she was sniffing! And a great find..native american ARROWHEAD about 3" long! Now we have lots arrowheads here..but find one laying on top of large rock is different! Maybe a friends from the long past is telling me something!!
(http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj94/longarrow_2007/Huntin%20o7/Bow%20for%20sale/DSCN0498.jpg)
  :clapper:
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Post by: GRINCH on May 31, 2011, 11:51:00 AM
Nice find.
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Post by: KyStickbow on May 31, 2011, 12:09:00 PM
Awesome find!!
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Post by: Stumpkiller on May 31, 2011, 12:43:00 PM
Good for you!  

For all the years I've spent walking and looking at the ground trying I've never found a stone point.  I have a selection my Grandmother collected when she was a kid along the Susquehanna River a dozen miles away from where I live now.  There is just something powerful about them.
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Post by: jamesh76 on May 31, 2011, 12:49:00 PM
Indeed it is.
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Post by: maineac on May 31, 2011, 01:25:00 PM
Very cool
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Post by: Ragin Bull on May 31, 2011, 01:37:00 PM
Nice Rickey  :thumbsup:   Very nice
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Post by: Easykeeper on May 31, 2011, 02:17:00 PM
Cool find.  I'm always scanning the ground for interesting things, son of a confirmed "rock hound".  Never found an arrowhead though.  Finding one must feel like a real link to someone in the past.
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Post by: adeeden on May 31, 2011, 02:42:00 PM
Very cool find, in reality it's probably a knife or spear point though. a bit big for a true arrow head.
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Post by: Larry m on May 31, 2011, 03:08:00 PM
Oh Yeah, Their neat to find in the field. As stated above a real link to the past. As Dennis points out a bit large for an arrow point. Could be a knife or a dart point. (atlatl) Lucky Find. I'd get that point sniffing dog out more often!
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Post by: Night Wing on May 31, 2011, 03:34:00 PM
A "diamond in the rough".    :thumbsup:
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Post by: longarrow on May 31, 2011, 03:57:00 PM
yep, it is a tad large for an arrowhead. I find lots of spear points, knives or scrapers here. Most are chipped or tips broken off. Same with arrowheads, once in a while we're find some that are complete. They say indains would sit/camp on the hills around here and watch for the buffalo's in the valley! We're called "city of five hills"!
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Post by: PaddyMac on May 31, 2011, 05:03:00 PM
Hang on a sec... I'm calculating the FOC...

  :bigsmyl:
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Post by: LONGSTYKES on May 31, 2011, 05:03:00 PM
Great find, a lot of history. We find a few still, now and then around here in MT.
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Post by: MTArrowLauncher on May 31, 2011, 05:39:00 PM
Nice find.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: on May 31, 2011, 06:39:00 PM
sorry, but it looks pretty new to me,from what i can see it looks to have some really sharp edges, and sitting on top of a rock?  "[dntthnk]"
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Post by: Bonebuster on May 31, 2011, 09:34:00 PM
If only it could talk.  :clapper:
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Post by: bsoper on June 01, 2011, 01:02:00 AM
I used to find them all over when I was a kid. Now they built houses on top of all of the good places to search  :(
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Post by: Mack Marine on June 01, 2011, 01:49:00 AM
Nice find indeed. A friend of mine found three arrow heads touching each other on the Neuse river bank.
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Post by: Jon Stewart on June 01, 2011, 04:57:00 AM
good find.  Wife found one under a cow pie last winter in the S.W.  That had to hurt!!!!
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Post by: Don Stokes on June 01, 2011, 11:28:00 AM
I haven't thought about looking under cow pies for them...    :)
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Post by: don s on June 01, 2011, 12:43:00 PM
here in new york, checking in freshly plowed fields is supposed to be productive. i found one when i was about 10 or 11. it was in a public park near a creek. it's somewhere in my dads house now. don
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Post by: WRV on June 01, 2011, 12:52:00 PM
Always an awesome find!!
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Post by: longarrow on June 01, 2011, 03:13:00 PM
Like Bonebuster, if only it could talk! When I pick one of these up, several things go thru my head. I would like to know the past, who made it?..what was it used for?..Has it taken any game?..or perhapes another human's life?..Each one holds a past that we can only wonder about. But with each one that I find, I feel closer to the past! Sort makes me glad to find one...I can give it a good home, out of the heat, cold and rain. And perhapes preserve it in it's current state..to prevent more destruction of the item. And pass it along to childern, so they may share.