Ohio Arrowhead I just found

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I have been looking for four out of the last 7 days for Indian artifacts, and it has been hot but I have just a couple spots available this time of year. Best site is 380 miles from here, but I considered this my "vacation". Spent a lot on motels and gas, my truck is tired and my cats think I've abandoned them. I found over 50 POUNDS of Flint Ridge Ohio lithics, mainly cores, some flake blades, knives, a paleo graver (I think), stuff is still sitting in the sink and a bucket. A couple broken points, hammerstones, etc. and went to other sites and got some nice stuff. I haven't had time to do anything, but...was visiting with the owner of the farm, a very nice lady.

She gave me permission to detect her lawn and was telling me about a 7" long clovis some kid found a few years ago! There was paleo activity at this end of Flint Ridge. I think some of the cores, gravers and all I have are paleo, but I don't know for sure.

I found this one pile or rocks and started picking through it and the dug some.

I found this! Best arrowhead I think I've found in my entire life! Can anyone tell me what kind it is? I thought I was being pranked at first, but I had gone by myself, so no one to do that. The color is a little darker than in real life, don't know why the camera did that.

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Huge Congrats Smokey! That is incredible. Hope someone can identify it.
 

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Very nice looking beautiful find almost looks like some type of metal really cool
 

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It's got to be Flint Ridge, as that's where I was. The rock has all kinds of black flecks in it, some look like minuscule lines made with a black sharpie! It may be fossil remains. It also could be natural petroleum as there is a producing oil well on the property. Just thought of that. She has the crude oil pumped out from the holding tanks twice a year. It's Pennsylvanian Age rocks there.
 

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Super Find! :icon_thumleft: That sure is some pretty material, Congratulations!
 

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Tomorrow I'll get pics (got LOTS of stuff), and try to group it by artifact type. Have one more place to try a lot closer, I was told about a Paleo workshop with cores and blades of rhyolite lying everywhere! Right! But I'm going to go take a look.
 

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50 POUNDS of stuff in three days! Most of it is big cores and 3 cute hammerstones, some bladelets. Still getting the dirt off, but checking out the new spot tomorrow assuming the weather cooperates.
 

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I’m a sucker for that idealistic arrowhead shape, ask most people to draw an arrowhead and you will get a shape like that, flaking, symmetry, material, no Knicks that I see, couldn’t ask for more
 

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One of the points on the bottom is broken/chipped, but just a little. I don't think I'd be able to afford to buy one like it! Like I said, my best point ever! I started looking over 50 years ago, on and off.
 

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Thanks Tdog! In Maryland we don't get those. The point was found within the eastern "range' of that type's occurrence. Since I live in Maryland I don't think I'd ever heard of that kind before.
 

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It's a beauty, Smokey! What's its length?
 

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That is one of the nicest looking points I’ve ever seen. Congrats
 

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Thanks all. The Hopewell mounds are less than 30 minutes away from the site. It is over 3" long.
 

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Awesome point! (I hope your cats don't give up on you lol!)
 

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That’s one sweet point! You know, the kind that you have to keep looking at on & off all day after you found it. Congratulations on that one!
 

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