Awesome Bonus Today "Copper Trade Point"

[Acejeckel]

Awesome Bonus Today "Native Copper Artifact"

Well how do I start this off, I guess I'll start with this, so I had today off work so I decided to head to a old park it is in a rough neighborhood and I was attracting the wrong attention so I drove the 30 minutes back toward the house and with it being only 9:30 in the morning I decided to head to a area I have been trying to locate a few old home sites on. I managed a few keepers at the one home site, I then checked my map and decided to head to a site that I haven't been to before, this spot turned out to be pretty awesome.
I started out finding a piece of an old bell followed by 2 more pieces of the bell "they all fit together also" then I found some melted lead and a few lantern parts, I slowed way down and got a low tone I dug down and found my first general service civil war eagle button. I also found 2 padlock keyhole covers 1 says D.M. & Co and the other has a crown and the letter F on it. And last I found the harmonica reed.
So with it being time to go I took the long way to the truck and walked down by the river I passed under a huge oak tree so I swung the coil on the way by and the only signal turned out to be a copper arrowhead or small spear point, you can see the crude hammer marks in it and it has a dark green pitna on it, as soon as I seen it i said this cant be what i think it is. I am in Michigan and the area I found it in runs the Indian trade route.

Well I tried to fix the title after it was brought to my attention this is not a trade point, it is a ancient Copper Culture spearhead. Thanks for the correction guys.

That is mind blowing to me to find something that old. Wow

 

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[SultansOfSwing]

thats awesome. was the point made to look liked chipped stone or is that the result of its creative process. I also found the same lock plate cover with the crown. you have a lot of nice display pieces there but that point takes the cake.

 

[Acejeckel]

It looks like layers, like it was from the process of being hammered on most likely with a stone. I Googled Michigan Native American copper artifacts and there are a few resembling this one, all the ones I looked at online look to have the same layers or markings.

 

[Jeff H]

Not a trade point. Looks like the real deal to me. Congrats on a cool find.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Plumbata]

Oh yeah that's a fine ancient Copper Culture spearhead, thousands of years older and way better than a trade point in my book! That makes what was already clearly an exciting find for you even better, congratulations and good luck finding more!

 

[trdking]

Wow that is awesome. Way older than a TP IMO

 

[Subterranean]

So very cool, if it could only talk. Congrats on a wonderful North American artifact! Sub

 

[xcopperstax]

Amazing find there! Congrats on a seriously cool piece of "prehistory"! can I say that? It sounds cool and it's older than recorded history in America. Well anyway very nice and pretty amazing that you thought to keep it. I think a large amount of people wouldn't even know what that is!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a great find. That had to be awesome to find one of those.

 

[A2coins]

Amazing find that's a great display piece I've been looking for Indian artifacts also here in Mi that's freakin great. Well done my friend. Tommy

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congrats!