I would take this over a barber half any day. Huge spear point found while detecting.

[Helix]

Well this afternoon I figured I'd try and find another long gone home site that is currently in a vast corn field. So I was working the area that I thought would be the home site, according to my maps. Picked up some glass shards, square nails and some lead. No coins or neat relics today but as I am walking along between the corn rows I spot the tip of a point sticking out of the dirt, ok nothing new probably just a broken tip to something. Anyway I will let the pictures speak for themselves. You can see the clean tip of the point that I noticed. Cleaned up, this is biggest point I have ever found out in a feild. Hard to believe it surived the plowing.

 

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[Captain Caveman]

Great Find! We may differ on the Barber half thing... but still, Awesome Find!!!

 

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[treblehunter]

I agree, way better than a Barber Half, very cool! I'm thinking Banner, I just don't know enough about those to date them?

Congrats, I'd be so stoked if I found that.

 

[46Wheat]

Wow

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Nice point save there, it probably would have gotten destroyed on the next equipment pass !!!

 

[bammer]

The size of the point gets me thinking about stirring up the pot a little.
I propose it is exactly what it looks like, an arrow point.
You say that's a huge arrow how about it just being a spear point or knife, but if you can imagine someone who is 7 or 8 feet tall, they would need a bigger set of tools, etc...
I've seen huge points, axes, spears that most seem to just group into burial ornamental items because they can serve no function to a modern size man.
We will never know because we were not there.
I appreciate all the folks who study points but I have heard very little about the anomaly and unique items.

 

[Helix]

The size of the point gets me thinking about stirring up the pot a little.
I propose it is exactly what it looks like, an arrow point.
You say that's a huge arrow how about it just being a spear point or knife, but if you can imagine someone who is 7 or 8 feet tall, they would need a bigger set of tools, etc...
I've seen huge points, axes, spears that most seem to just group into burial ornamental items because they can serve no function to a modern size man.
We will never know because we were not there.
I appreciate all the folks who study points but I have heard very little about the anomaly and unique items.

Intresting thought I am assuming your talking about points like this.The one I found the other day is on far left. Well unless the experts have found 8 foot tall skeletal remains that date back thousands of years I don't know about that. I believe ones that have been found are same size as modern man. Unless you ask Scott Wolter he might agree with you. Still intresting thought.

 

[Trezurehunter]

That's a very nice point. I don't know which one I would rather have. I suppose it would depend on how many Barber Halves I have already found.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I really don't have an affinity for Native American artifacts... not in my wheelhouse, so to speak...

But that piece is freakin awesome. Good job by you!

 

[Helix]

That's a very nice point. I don't know which one I would rather have. I suppose it would depend on how many Barber Halves I have already found.

Personally I have found two barber halves and one seated half. Fact that is was not already broken from all the years of plowing. I find stuff like this often. Busted, or smaller bird points about 1 inch intact. To me something like this man made that is possibly 9,000 years old and is almost perfect is special. Boggles my mind thinking about the person who made it and how living was around my area thousands of years ago.

 

[against the wind]

Congrats Helix,,, that point is a monster

 

[sutphin]

HELIX , GAULEY WHAT A FIND.......

 

[stratos]

Adena mound builder period. ice point.

 

[stratos]

Adena point, mound builder period. Nice point.