Exciting find!

Krex1010 · November 25, 2015, 07:48:00 PM

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Hope these pics work...my first time attempting to post pics...a friend and I were walking through a local orchard and there was an area that was recently plowed up...my buddy looks down and sees this laying there, I got chills as soon as I recognized what it was, a perfect tomahawk head! What a find my friend made. I figured it was appropriate for this forum.

goobersan · November 25, 2015, 07:51:00 PM

super cool

McDave · November 25, 2015, 08:04:00 PM

This raises a perineal question I have wondered about for a long time. That head looks like it is in pretty good shape, as do a great many arrowheads that have been found from time to time. I have seen thousands of arrowheads mounted on boards in museums and private collections over the course of my life, and there are probably thousands more waiting to be found. How did they all end up being lost? Imagine the time it took and the value to a primitive hunter of an arrowhead or tomahawk head. I think of all the time I spend looking for a lost arrow, sometimes going back time after time to look again. Do you think they didn't go back to look for them in those days?

Anyway, I haven't seen that many tomahawk heads, so you might have quite a find!

KSCATTRAPR · November 25, 2015, 08:06:00 PM

Wow, heck of a find!

abbatoys · November 25, 2015, 08:19:00 PM

That is awesome. My grandpa used to walk the plowed fields for miles and found hundreds of arrow heads. We have an awesome collection. I would go back there as often as possible, bet you will find more cool stuff.. Congrats

Krex1010 · November 25, 2015, 08:23:00 PM

What amazes me is how perfectly balanced the head is, how amazingly smooth and perfectly formed the grooves are and its still impressively sharp. This took some serious skill to make, no primitive tool here!
McDave, I can't imagine how valuable this must have been to its owner, I can imagine these were passed down the way we pass valuables down.

Duncan · November 25, 2015, 08:37:00 PM

You might be surprised to know how valuable it is now. That is probably much older than we realize. I have a friend that found one nearly identical to yours next to a large tree in a pasture. She had lived there for years within sight of it and just happened to go out to that tree one day and found it. Very nice artifact.

shag08 · November 25, 2015, 08:52:00 PM

Very cool find! I, like McDave, have often pondered things of this nature. I'm a logger and I'm in the woods everyday. I've found several "modern" knives and lots of lost arrows. When you think of things on a larger scale..."modern", production materials have only been available to the masses for the past half/full century or so, give or take. And most of our materials will rot or rust away with time. That rock was here long before a man had the vision and knowledge to make it into a useful tool. And it will remain long after we are all gone. Most things that man has accomplished are just a blip on the radar when it comes to the big picture.

ChuckC · November 25, 2015, 08:59:00 PM

Tamahawk or ax ? Looks pretty neat.
ChuckC

November 25, 2015, 09:03:00 PM

That's pretty cool!

Bisch

Bernie B. · November 25, 2015, 09:17:00 PM

What a great find! Wouldn't you like to know the history of it!!

Bernie

Krex1010 · November 25, 2015, 09:27:00 PM

Knowing its history would be really cool, but i just hope somewhere, someway, somehow, it's original owner and maker could know that all these hundreds maybe thousands of years later, people are still appreciating and impressed with his skills. I hope the hunting is good wherever he is.

EWill · November 26, 2015, 03:46:00 AM

That is cool, what a great find.

MR BILL SHORTY · November 26, 2015, 04:59:00 AM

:eek:

zepnut · November 26, 2015, 07:56:00 AM

What a find.

Sam McMichael · November 26, 2015, 08:22:00 AM

Magnificent! Their techniques may have been primitive, but the products were very refined. I have found many arrowheads but have never found a tomahawk in good condition. That was a good find.

Gordon Jabben · November 26, 2015, 03:25:00 PM

Really nice find.

RAU · November 26, 2015, 03:49:00 PM

Beautiful Celt!

achigan · November 26, 2015, 04:11:00 PM

When I thinnk about all the aboriginal Americans that died of disease, whole vilages being wiped out, it's easy to see stone items being buried in the litter. A friend that collects heads like that told me they were used to bust up ice on lakes and rivers.

huntnmuleys · November 26, 2015, 04:57:00 PM

wow, that's cool as hell!