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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7180039
02/13/21 06:41 AM
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Never picked and arrow heads myself, but my hunting property and nearby properties along the Rifle River in Northern Mid Michigan have mounds along the river created several hundreds of years ago. The head waters were known as wintering area for native peoples and the outlet into Saginaw Bay is called Wigwam bay, said to be a summer area. Not sure the purpose exactly of the mounds. A couple are hundreds of feet across with a narrow shallow moat or trench around them, with a level entrance perhaps. Never disturbed them, often ponder and wonder, sometimes total silence while my imagination tries to hear.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7180043
02/13/21 06:49 AM
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7180170
02/13/21 10:06 AM
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Illinois
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keep your head down and walk it,,,,,,theres more than likely more stuff in that creek.......where therers one ,,,theres a 98% likliehood there will be more. absoloutley awesome finds


the thrill of finding them never ceases,,,,,,,,,i found my first when I was 9 years old.......still at it today.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7180343
02/13/21 12:15 PM
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coastal ny
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Once you figure out what your local ones look like, they pop out of the background...Here, they're usually quartzite, that chip of white stone is unmistakeable.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7180763
02/13/21 05:54 PM
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That's quite a collection foxkidd

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279224
06/04/21 08:22 AM
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I know of folks that go walk sandbars after a big rain when the water level goes back down. They find all kinds of points and stone tools as well as petrified antlers and such.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279225
06/04/21 08:23 AM
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Southern Illinois
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When I find one I always try to imagine the circumstance in which it got there.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279240
06/04/21 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by RM trapper
The guy that owns the property showed me his collection, he's only owned the property for 3 years and he's already found over 100 really nice ones and tons of broke ones. Must have been a camp there, according to the history of the area it was one of the prime hunting areas for the cherokee. Being 1/8 cherokee it really interest me


More likely a settlement or village.


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: Feedinggrounds] #7279243
06/04/21 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Feedinggrounds
Never picked and arrow heads myself, but my hunting property and nearby properties along the Rifle River in Northern Mid Michigan have mounds along the river created several hundreds of years ago. The head waters were known as wintering area for native peoples and the outlet into Saginaw Bay is called Wigwam bay, said to be a summer area. Not sure the purpose exactly of the mounds. A couple are hundreds of feet across with a narrow shallow moat or trench around them, with a level entrance perhaps. Never disturbed them, often ponder and wonder, sometimes total silence while my imagination tries to hear.


Likely Hopewell mounds

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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: Scout1] #7279248
06/04/21 09:01 AM
06/04/21 09:01 AM
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The Hill Country of Texas
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Originally Posted by Scout1
... Imagine having to kill a east Tennessee buck with one of those points.


No doubt but can you imagine defending yourself having to defend against an attacking bear or big cat?


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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279258
06/04/21 09:18 AM
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I found a bull elk shed in a beaver dam then a bull buffalo skull in another different creeks separated by many miles of country.
I'd drive across on the Bozeman Trail to check some beaver traps and found a steel outer wheel from a buggy but never any arrowheads .


Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279261
06/04/21 09:24 AM
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Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279269
06/04/21 09:47 AM
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With how fertile it is back in places like Ohio and the east in general I'm shocked how many artifacts you guys find. I would have thought the earth would have just covered them deeper and deeper. Must have been piles of Indians there back in the day.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279274
06/04/21 10:05 AM
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I have found a small collection over the years. But in my small garden away from any significant water source I have found 2. Makes you wonder how many 10's of millions are still out there.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279908
06/05/21 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by RM trapper
While checking my beaver sets this morning I was walking the edge of a cornfield and looked down and saw a piece of a arrowhead, and I started looking around a little bit and found two small ones both had been hit with a disc, but then I found one good sized one that was almost complete, I love finding these things and can't help but imagine the time they had in making them
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You are taking a chance posting pics of arrow heads, White17 might recognize them and want'em back.

Re: Nice find while checking beaver traps [Re: RM trapper] #7279914
06/05/21 10:51 AM
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing



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