Twitch's first year finds - story w/ case photo's
Rock posted a thread with his first find, so I'm following suit. These two cases are from my first full year of artifact hunting which was 2000. At the end of '98 I moved from New Mexico to Washington State. At the beginning of '99 I moved to central IL and found my first couple of brokes in a field my the house we were renting. Moved to KY in the middle on '99. In early 2000 a guy I met asked if I wanted to go shed hunting. I said sure. He had one hell of a shed collection. As we were looking I asked if he'd every found arrowheads. He said no, but was sure we could look on some of the land he shed hunted on. To make a long story short, he hasn't found a shed in ~13 years and has one very nice artifact collection.
The first whole point I found was the tan Adena, bottom row, 2nd from the right. My actually found 4 of these, the Motley in the bottom left corner of case #1, the 3-1/2" unhafted knife right above it and the Madison-ish point just right of center. She also found the flint celt at center in case #2. The buck creek in the top right corner of case #1 was found in 2 pieces laying right next to each other.
The brown eared Hopewell at the center of case #1 is one of my 10 favorite points. Many people will say it's not a Hopewell. When Red Tully was alive he was certain that's what it was and I trust his judgement when it comes to western KY points. There are very similar points pictured in his books. Also the pink point w/ white spots on the bottom row, 2nd from the left is a top 10 for me. Not really a nice point, but at the time I found I couldn't believe points that nice could be found. I didn't really know anyone who'd ever found an arrowhead before and I remember thinking the day I found that "I bet no one else in the world had a better day hunting artifacts today than I had". Ha ha ha! But at the time I had no idea what was out there to be found. There's a thumbnail scraper in case #2, just above the bottom left corner. I remember finding that one and discussing with my two rock hunting buddies why it didn't have notches and why it was only worked on one side.
These generally aren't my nicest points but as my first they're some of my favorites. I remember finding each and every one.
These all come from Southern Illinois or Western Kentucky.
Thanks for looking.
Joe
Rock posted a thread with his first find, so I'm following suit. These two cases are from my first full year of artifact hunting which was 2000. At the end of '98 I moved from New Mexico to Washington State. At the beginning of '99 I moved to central IL and found my first couple of brokes in a field my the house we were renting. Moved to KY in the middle on '99. In early 2000 a guy I met asked if I wanted to go shed hunting. I said sure. He had one hell of a shed collection. As we were looking I asked if he'd every found arrowheads. He said no, but was sure we could look on some of the land he shed hunted on. To make a long story short, he hasn't found a shed in ~13 years and has one very nice artifact collection.
The first whole point I found was the tan Adena, bottom row, 2nd from the right. My actually found 4 of these, the Motley in the bottom left corner of case #1, the 3-1/2" unhafted knife right above it and the Madison-ish point just right of center. She also found the flint celt at center in case #2. The buck creek in the top right corner of case #1 was found in 2 pieces laying right next to each other.
The brown eared Hopewell at the center of case #1 is one of my 10 favorite points. Many people will say it's not a Hopewell. When Red Tully was alive he was certain that's what it was and I trust his judgement when it comes to western KY points. There are very similar points pictured in his books. Also the pink point w/ white spots on the bottom row, 2nd from the left is a top 10 for me. Not really a nice point, but at the time I found I couldn't believe points that nice could be found. I didn't really know anyone who'd ever found an arrowhead before and I remember thinking the day I found that "I bet no one else in the world had a better day hunting artifacts today than I had". Ha ha ha! But at the time I had no idea what was out there to be found. There's a thumbnail scraper in case #2, just above the bottom left corner. I remember finding that one and discussing with my two rock hunting buddies why it didn't have notches and why it was only worked on one side.
These generally aren't my nicest points but as my first they're some of my favorites. I remember finding each and every one.
These all come from Southern Illinois or Western Kentucky.
Thanks for looking.
Joe
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