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.
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