find the worked flint!!

searcher · May 20, 2005

there are three pieces of worked flint in this pic! ... pic was taken from my eye height to show what to look for..
one is an unfinished "bird point" the others just flakes. TRY AND FIND THEM!!!
H.fun?H. searcher

omnicognic · May 20, 2005

I have some family in northern Alabama, when I visit I find lots of arrowheads in the freshly plowed fields after a hard rain. When you walk the field they are easy to spot because they are on top of little dirt "pillars"! In a good field after a hard rain, I have found a gallon of them in a couple of hours! HH omnicognic 8)

stoney56 · May 20, 2005

I see it. Right there betwee the rock and the green stuff.

searcher · May 20, 2005

lol

this is mostly for the new hunters that keep asking what to look for.. too easy for the pro's... :P
i'll mark and repost later on...
searcher

searcher · May 20, 2005

top right is the unfinished point...

jglunt · May 20, 2005

Wow! I would have stared at that pic all day and never picked out those three. I've never looked for indian artifacts here in Michigan and I can see it takes a really trained eye. JG

Dave45 · May 20, 2005

The best time to look for points is right after a rain the flint will shine when wet while the other rocks are dull
Dave

deacon · May 23, 2005

Tried it before the rain and all I found was a horseshoe! to much of a dirt covering yet. How big are the points you circled? Smaller than a dime?

searcher · May 23, 2005

only one of those is an unfinished point... it's 1-1/8 in. long, 3/8in wide. the others are just pressure flakes about the size of a nickle. dave45 is right about the rain. i just don't like the mud problem... ::)

the smallest complete point i've found to date was only 3/8in long.
just found an incomplete point this morning going to feed my horses.
look for shapes that don't belong.. angles, worked looking etc. sometimes you'll only see an edge, or back, or tip.
mding is almost easier because you have tech. on your side, point hunting (minus the backhoe and screens) is just you and the outside world...
H.H. searcher

Wild Boulder Bill · Jun 1, 2005

I don't see the flint, but I do see the animal turds at the bottom left. Does that count for anything?

searcher · Jun 2, 2005

it would count if they were actual animal scat...not just blackish rocks! lol
searcher

T-Rex · Jun 22, 2005

omnicognic said:
I have some family in northern Alabama, when I visit I find lots of arrowheads in the freshly plowed fields after a hard rain. When you walk the field they are easy to spot because they are on top of little dirt "pillars"! In a good field after a hard rain, I have found a gallon of them in a couple of hours! HH omnicognic? 8)

Now you're talkin' that's the way we hunted... spring rains and spring plowing = nice rocks

russau · Nov 6, 2025

I squinted real hard , even with my glass' and still couldn't seen them! Maybe that's why I haven't found any point's !

searcher · Nov 6, 2025

Necro!
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Older The Better · Nov 7, 2025

Old thread but i happened to do the same thing recently, I don’t think it’s a fair game from a picture but if anyone spots my flint I’ll be impressed. One was a worked flake the other a false alarm just a larger flake