Hello all! I have recently become very interested in finding arrowheads and was wondering if anybody had any tips or suggestions of where to look. I live in Northcentral PA but would travel anywhere in the state to find some. Thanks!

Plowed fields after a hard rain is a hot spot.
In the spring, after a winters worth of frost heave, will expose them also.

Talk about a needle in a haystack! You're more apt to find a fossilized mastodon tusk.

If you hunt on private land, be sure to have permission.

I used to find a bunch between pitches umpiring baseball games on fields that used river sand for top dressing of fields...

Plowed fields are best like was said.

I'm no pro....I've done some field walking and found pieces and flakes.

Creek hunting is another option some guys have good luck with. Once your eye keys in on the Flint in the area, you'll spot more and faster.

Look for fields along water ways. High or low. If you comb a field you should IMO be finding flakes. If not, there probably isn't much there...but, that can be isolated. One field I found a broke in I walked a ways without finding much at all. One small area yielded several pieces and a broke.

It's addicting and frustrating. I'd like to get onto some good fields and actually find stuff. I have a field I wanna hunt this year...Everytime I hunt there I find flakes without looking.

Finding arrowheads is fascinating to me, I'm not sure how anyone can do it. I have, for example, a place where I can access 1/2-3/4 of a mile of farm field right next to the biggest river in the area. But how many natives have hunted there over the last several thousand years? How many arrows did they lose? And how can someone possibly find a rock the size of a silver dollar someone lost in this location hundreds or thousands of years ago? It amazes me even more than getting a raccoon to step on a trap pan when it has the whole earth to walk on.

How stuff migrates up through dirt is fascinating. My highschool's old baseball field was built in a floodplain on top of an old landfill. All kinds of stuff worked it's way up every year. My junior year a big chunk of concrete just appeared in the middle of right feild. Glad we found it in practice weeks before season. My knee found enough stuff when playing

I’ve found points on all parts of my farm but one hill gives up the majority. Some years I don’t find anything more than flakes, other years I find many broken heads. I believe this hill is the place they were made thus the reason for the broken heads. The rest of the farm yields mostly complete heads .

Ask he old timers in your area about low spots in fields that used to stand water most of the time . These are hot spots in this prairie country !

The areas where they had regular villages is were u find them in numbers. In my area it's high ground that is right beside year around water source.

With the amount of no-till we have now a days, look in the creeks that run past a good field. Use your sifter.

We find plenty around here in the Appalachian mountains from the Cherokee tribe, they must of had members staying at the camps making arrowheads constantly. We'll find places in plowed fields that have flakes all over and it's not uncommon to get 15-20 a year from these areas. Some of the fields have been hunted for 30 years and we are still finding them

I've tried it and suck at finding them. The only thing I found was by chance, I wasn't looking for anything

An atlatl head. It's cool because it real old. Was told by collector it would be over 2,000 yo And could be old enough to have been used to hunt mammoth or mastodon. ( hairy fricken elephants) cavebears ect

High spots along water, big and small. Lots of folks think you find ones they shot at game etc. NO. Of course it’s possible but unlikely. What you find instead is lost, dropped, discarded, forgotten around campsites. I know I know, caches exist but they are rare. This would have been the men sitting around relaxing around the fire. They could make a handful in an evening each. Now extrapolate that campsite being used for a hundred years more or less. It adds up. If your finding flakes and shards of flint your in the right spot. Follow a trench of erosion from creek up into the field. I’ve found plenty in no till this way.

How far are you from Allenwood? Found lots of stuff in the field east of the river when we were working on the new bridge 30 or 40 years ago.

Where white Deer creek hits the river might be a good spot.

Flat ground close to flowing water. I look for these fields and especially one that is plowed for the first time in many years. Being plowed year after year can break up nicer long points.Over the years I have found several Indian artifacts on beaver dams where the beaver dredged them up and pushed them onto the dam. Same with old bottles.

If you plan in looking on public land have the proper paperwork in place, if your your on private lands have written permissions, if on your land have fun.

Plowed fields along the Susquehanna come spring.

Thanks for the suggestions this all sounds like good info! Can’t wait for spring to come so I can get out in those fields.