Would have liked to have gotten out more. These are the finds from the last week and a half. Temps, deer flies, snakes and skeeters are getting a little much.

It amazes me the amount of artifacts that are in a good area. I guess if folks used the site over thousands of years, maybe it shouldn't surprise me. We don't get many fields disced anymore, but I when they put in peanuts, everything gets turned over pretty well.

Good finds there!

Very nice

Sweet finds. I really should walk the field next to the house.

Very nice, I wish I had fields to walk but I walk creeks here in So Illinois they don’t do deep tillage here either and this year it’s been so wet that most farmers haven’t even made it to the field , we have 4000 acres left to plant

Pretty cool.

One of my favorite spring pastimes/hobbies here in NE Iowa. Much of my areas I hunted in the past are in the set-a-side programs or no-till farming but still manage to find a few treasures of the true Americans.

90% of our points are obsidian where I live. Nice finds.

Do you consider yourself a "true American"?

Keith

I'm envious. I see very little obsidian in my area.

First immigrants maybe....

Blows my mind how you guys can find those things. Amazing.

No I don't - my blood lines are Irish and German so I'm NOT a Native American.

You pretty much flip every stone you walk by.

Real fortunate in my area that if you see any rocks in the fields, it’s 50% chance it’s been worked. Very little stone. Every large river rock I’ve picked up has some sort of human wear to it. Grinding stone, nutting stone… I can travel a couple of counties over and the fields are slam full of just rocks.

Also fortunate to apparently have a major migration route and camps or settlements around. Really believe it’s due to the large swamps.

Pretty cool part of the state. Native American, Revolutionary and Civil War artifacts mixed in many areas.

Pulled a few buttons a week ago.

my favorite of this year. That’s just how I found it lying.

Nice when they just lay there waiting for ya.

Native Americans had camps on my farm. I am right on the edge of a glacier moraine. I have at least 5 springs in the ditch line right behind my house, more at the back of my property and on the left side. On the non-rocky part of my farm, a high percentage of the rocks show usage too. I find mostly tools used for making pemmican and other foods. I have 2 mounds. The moles frequently pop pottery shards out of the straight line mound. I pick up the stone tools, but not the pottery from the mound.

I am just 78 miles from flint ridge, but almost never find any of the gemstone quality flint from there here. The chert tools I find are all low grade and mostly turtle scrapers.

One of the more well known, privately owned mounds, is on the property adjoining the property of one of my best friends, 6.8 miles from here. I find similar food preparation tools and low grade chert tools there. This Spring he and his neighbor paid to have about 1 1/2 miles of fence row on the North side of his property bulldozed out, that I should go limp down and check. They do no till on the property.

My mom lives very close to Johnston's Farm, near Piqua, Ohio where Pickawillany, a huge, after contact, Native American village was. The points that show up in her yard are very fine quality, out of very fine materials.

I found my first intact arrowhead when I was in 8th grade in Greenhills, Ohio. My whole school was lined up and had to walk around the edge of our parking lot, saying the Rosary They had recently done some excavation and repair at the one end of the lot. 300 plus students walked within 5' of the point before I saw it, stepped out of line and grabbed it. My teacher was astonished that I spotted it.

The dad of one of the girls in my class, who lived in Greenhills found a cache of several hundred arrowheads in their backyard, when digging a fire pit. I would love to find a cache.

Keith

Dang, that's a nice one.

Happy to see someone from Virginia finding arrowheads.

I would absolutely love to find just one of these. Any particular features to look for to narrow down which fields to search? Proximity to water?

The last one I was extremely lucky to find unbroken in a freshly plowed field. It is a typical ‘Kalapuya’ serrated point. This one about 3/4" long.

Kinda like trappin’ Brother. You gotta be where they are. Don’t know your area, but I concentrate on high / flat spots in fields within 100 yards of major waterways or swamps. Had an old timer tell me that envision where you would sleep on the ground. It wouldn’t be on a slope or in a wet area. I’d say it’s held true for me 99% of the time and that’s where I concentrate my efforts in my area.

I’ll state again beaverpeeler, I’m envious. My points aren’t nearly that fine. These are probably 2 of the best bird points I’ve picked up.

If anyone wants to venture a guess, I’d like your thoughts on this too. I’m guessing something ceremonial? Shame it was broken.

I'm with Gunnleg on where to find them. You're looking for old campsites so a nearby source of water is essential. Old campsites tend to have darker soil associated with them because of mixed charcoal and organic matter accumulations over the millennia. Some of the campsites in my area date back several thousand years.

The Turtle Islanders?

Enlighten me for what you mean by the term "The Turtle Islanders." I have no Native American blood or claim to. I do know that the Native Americans have a different concept in their creation.