Wanna See Some Old Broad Heads?

Izzy · March 01, 2014, 05:59:00 PM

A friend of mine is an avid metal detector and detects mostly close to our area. A couple of years ago he found a mess of stone artifacts at an undisclosed location.

He went back with his metal detector and found a cache of these trade points, copper manufacture. They were evaluated by an expert and its suggested that they were brought here by the Dutch to trade with the Algonquians in the early 1600's.

The 4 points in the pic were gifted to me and I framed them against buck skin. They are a prized possession in my man cave.

Anyway, I thought some of you would like to see a bit of archery history. Please feel free to post any bow hunting curiosities you might be hanging onto. It'll make spring get here faster.

Hermon · March 01, 2014, 06:06:00 PM

That is very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Sean B · March 01, 2014, 06:19:00 PM

Cool as heck Izzy, probably traded out of Ft. Orange!!! I love that stuff, I'm an amateur historian of the 17th and 18th centuries.

stickem1 · March 01, 2014, 06:20:00 PM

That is amazing! A prize for sure.

Ulysseys · March 01, 2014, 06:21:00 PM

Awesome! Thanks for posting that - I love archery history.

March 01, 2014, 06:30:00 PM

Those are cool Izzy! I don't have anything older than about 1990!

Bisch

ChuckC · March 01, 2014, 06:32:00 PM

nice. thanks for sharing

I wonder what the hole is for ? Maybe to put on a string for transport (in bulk).

ChuckC

glenbo · March 01, 2014, 06:36:00 PM

They are great Izzy. I love old things.

FerretWYO · March 01, 2014, 06:39:00 PM

That's awesome izzy.

frassettor · March 01, 2014, 07:48:00 PM

That's neat! I will post pics of my heads tomorrow

kbetts · March 01, 2014, 07:58:00 PM

Awesome collection for a man cave.

Cookus · March 01, 2014, 08:07:00 PM

Awesome Izzy! I love how you framed them!

Stumpkiller · March 01, 2014, 09:27:00 PM

Neat!

I have about 150 different old glue-on heads I have collected. Couple guys hereabouts have thousands of different models.

Yours push the envelope WAY back!

zipper bowss · March 01, 2014, 09:33:00 PM

Very Cool!!! Thanks for sharing that.
Bill

Cyclic-Rivers · March 01, 2014, 09:44:00 PM

Neat stuff Izzy. I miss having your buddy come to shoots. Heck, I miss being at the shoots myself lol.

TonyW · March 01, 2014, 09:58:00 PM

You might want to check this out. You have quite a find, for sure.

http://scienceviews.com/squier/aboriginalmonumentsA-13.html

Figure 70 is a full-size engraving of one of the arrow-points discovered with a skeleton, near Fall River, Massachusetts, in the year 1831. With this skeleton were found a corroded plate of brass, supposed to have constituted a breastplate, and a number of rude tubes of the same metal, composing a sort of belt or cincture. The arrow-points are two inches in length, and one and one-third inches broad at the base. This skeleton attracted a good deal of attention at the time, and was supposed to lend some sanction to the then popular theory of the early discovery and settlement of the coast of New England by the Northmen.

...."The arrowheads are of brass, thin, flat, and triangular in shape, with a round hole cut through near the base. The shaft was fastened to the head by inserting the latter in an opening at the end of the wood, and then tying it with a sinew through the round hole,—a mode of constructing the weapon never practised by the Indians"

TonyW · March 01, 2014, 10:37:00 PM

slim_grim · March 01, 2014, 10:47:00 PM

That's pretty incredible.

Izzy · March 02, 2014, 09:43:00 AM

Wow Tony, great reading. I've seen some from western us that were very different but the ones in the write up are identical to mine.

kat · March 02, 2014, 09:49:00 AM

Cool points. I really like the way you displayed them with a buckskin background.