Larger copper/bronze? arrow point/knife?

[history hunter]

Well, I promised to post this one a year ago, before my comp. went out. I found this in Wisconsin about 1980 or so,by a lake. It was down about 12"+ and had a long oval shaped deposit,( which I removed). You can still see the outline of the deposit on the side of artifact. My high school teacher,(that was teaching us about artifacts), didn't even want to see it at the time. If anybody can tell me more about it, I would appreciate it. Thanks for looking. HH

[Noodle]

Wow! Anything copper (as in a tool) has to be special and old. I'm not versed in that, but a trip to a local university should unearth some info. Let us know! And thanks for sharing.

Noodle

[history hunter]

Hi Looks like copper culture Spear 3000 to 7000 years old. Don't know about the patina was this a water find?
anyway here is a site that is in building process has great pictures and easy to search http://www.copperculture.zoomshare.com/0.html

Steve0, this point had about 1/4 " of patina on top in the elongated oval pattern on the flat side of the point. I removed it years ago. This point was dug about 25 feet away from the lake shore, so that could account for the patina. Thanks for responding. HH

[history hunter]

Wow! Anything copper (as in a tool) has to be special and old. I'm not versed in that, but a trip to a local university should unearth some info. Let us know! And thanks for sharing.

Noodle

Thanks for your interest.