A little break off the base but glad I found it. Aweful lot of walking today, snow storm didn’t help to uncover as much as I expected.

Nice find!

If only it could talk

Nice find, occasionally someone will find one around here

Not enough soil getting disturbed to turn many up I guess

I would check your waterways. Has to be some in there I would think.

High spots in fields are where I look. Some look good but I find nothing others have good finds.

If you come across flakes and chips, look every inch of that area over.

Has anyone ever did any real life testing in the modern day with this type of arrow heads? I just wonder how well they penetrate, if they were used more than once, etcc.

That is almost a perfect one, great find......jk

Nice!!!

Wow!! Very nice.

You’d think with all the Indians we have here we would find arrow heads like that. All I can find are some empties.

Nice one. I havent found one in a few years now because i quit discing and put everything into hay at home. You definitely gave a tip on the high spots and where u find chips look hard. Very true here as well. Theres a high spot beside a spring here in a cow pasture im going to plow one day to look. Me and grandad cleared and disced that spot years ago for cows and i found some bird points there. I know theres more just waiting. Anyway keep posting its an interesting subject ty.

Awesome

The vast majority of “arrowheads” are used up knives. When chert was used to tip an arrow, most were simple small triangles with notches, although in some regions some of them did have some narrow notches. When we look at historical arrows, many are actually tipped with bone points. In fact knapped stone on arrows is not super common UNLESS the arrows were used for warfare. Spears and atlatl darts same - VERY few flint points on them, flint is just so delicate that of the available materials you are better off using bone/antler, and bone points kill just fine.

As for testing them, yes, definitely. I have taken over 30 deer with stone points and a selfbow I made. They penetrate great when made and attached properly. What you do not want to make the mistake of doing is using something shaped like one of the used up knives commonly found in fields. Those were not made to penetrate, and after a few resharpenings they penetrate even less. I had complete pass throughs on maybe 1/3 of my deer - but keep in mind I was using 34 inch long 800-plus grain arrows and keeping shots under 20 yards, most shots in the 10-15 yard zone, with a 55 pound osage selfbow. The very first deer I killed with a flint point hit between the ribs going in, broke a rib coming out (also broke the flint point) and just the fletchings were still in the deer as it ran off and the arrow was laying on the ground about 20 yards from where the deer was hit. I was surprised, I wasn’t expecting that much penetration. But many more deer proved it was not a fluke.

Small points top all found in a 1 acre area. 2nd pic quartz points found same farm but not same place.

I believe this may be a Grahams cave, early archaic 5000 to 9000 BP.

their ancestral lands here got paved over called Ca-See-No

DRF nice fields you have to look in, no rocks. When I look here the fields are littered with stones from human head size on down. Picking out an arrowhead or such from all the stones on the ground is difficult. We do not find white pieces, ours are just the same color as the stones in the field.

That’s interesting because when I see a rock I get excited lol. They loved those smooth stones and I have some that were used for something judging by the pecking and grooves in them. I have a couple heavy ones they had knocked chunks off of that I eventually got brought home, each time I would go there I would carry it back as far as I could and drop it and make a mental note to find it next trip back. One of my best locations has a spot about 50 yards from where I find them that is littered with stones in a small area and I wonder if that is where they kept them until needed. I have walked that entire field and nowhere else is there rocks like that.

Used to find them on farm,way back when, also Pilgrim tombstones,they didn't have long life back then

Nice find

DRF, have you found different points from different time periods,,
Aka paleo, archaic, woodland! Mississippian, ??

I have a fantastic occupation site,,, I’ve found ALL of the above time periods there..
I have 2 Clovis points I’ve found there.. and mostly archaic time periods.
I don’t find as much woodland and missippian stuff there. But my absolute favorite is a Cahokia point.. had the very tip broken off.

Foxkidd I believe I do. I have yet to find any paleo yet and that’s gonna make my day when I do. I believe this point is a grahams cave and if so would make it early archaic and I have found about every time period at this spot. It is pretty large and takes awhile to over. The recent Madison I found there I thought was my first but going through my collection this past weekend I found another Madison slightly larger then the one I just found. Now I need that Clovis point to make this spot everything lol.

How do you explain so many used up knives looking identical? Just a question I was wondering. Something else I wonder about... why is it everyone says that they look for chips and find arrow heads... but like how is that explained? I can't wrap my mind around why there would be people standing on a rise (to be able to see out I assume / dry) knapping arrowheads (making chips) and finding whole arrow heads there??? Like why would they stand there, make them, and throw multiple of them on the ground for people to find in the same spot later... like enough of them for everyone to say if you find chips look for arrow heads? How can that come to be?

Ohio boy, you see all that and you’re on what used to be a village or campsite. No different then finding trash we leave behind after gone only they didn’t create as much trash

My guess, and I see it here, When they're making points you get the chips, and any inferior, to them, points, are discarded. where I find most of mine, the points look either slightly broke, or partially made and dumped. They look good but maybe not "good enough"...YMMV...

Ohio, we all lose our tools no matter what time period.
Imagine someone finding a set of truck keys in a thousand years… if they have not completely corroded.
More broken artifacts are usually found than complete ones on occupation sites.
Axes, celts were usually too dang heavy to carry around… so they made new ones when they set up somewhere else.