First Piece I Ever Found

[Derek752]

I enjoy reading all the posts and seeing what everyone here finds across the country !

I wanted to post a few photos of the first point I've ever found and get ideas of its origin from the well educated people of this forum

It came from a fording place well used before bridges were built over the Mohawk river and even before then on the south side is supposed to be an indian settlement.

After hunting the site and finding colonial relics and coins as we were walking back across the field and my eyes focused on the ground as always I spotted this piece of flint and dang near screamed....My first find !!

The third photo is of the last one I found about 2 weeks ago

Its the center piece of my arrowhead display

Thanks for looking

Derek

 

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[*Molly*]

Hi Derek, Looks like you have a Brodhead, with the wide notches & Covex base, Early Archaic & a Guilford Middle Archaic. The Guilford looks like onondoga flint. I have many Guilfords the same shape..
Congrats on your finds, Thankyou for showing us..

Molly.

 

[pickaway]

Nice fins congrats

 

[Derek752]

Hi Derek, Looks like you have a Brodhead, with the wide notches & Covex base, Early Archaic & a Guilford Middle Archaic. The Guilford looks like onondoga flint. I have many Guilfords the same shape..
Congrats on your finds, Thankyou for showing us..

Molly.

Thank You Molly !! ....

For all the information .... I'll never forget seeing it just laying on the ground and how big it was when I picked it up !

We've spent many days and walked quite a few miles looking in likely fields but so has everyone else here in central Ny and unbroken ones are hard to come by

Thanks

Derek

 

[*Molly*]

I hear that, seems on average, I find 10-15 brokes per whole point, Mind you hunting in plowed fields doesn't help, the plow causes most of the damage, but if you study your broken finds, you'll see whether they've been broke in ancient times or by the plow, just look for good
colouration on the break, if it shows nice clear colouring, its a recent break, ( the clear colouring is infact the original colour of the point, it weathers/oxidizes over long periods, causing the point to look drab ( lack of a better word), If the break is the same colour as the point, it's an ancient break, which is acceptable by most collectors. Our imagination comes into play now, how did it break? I find most ancient breaks are caused by impact, so it kinda makes the broken peices more interesting, than recent brokes.
So don't be discouraged by finding lots of broken points/blades etc. Example, you could find a point that was a successful kill & fed the hunters family. I find this a more interesting thought, rather than being gloomy over finding ancient broken points/blades..

Just keep all you find, we'll be glad to give our opinions on them.
I hope this is helpful.

Molly.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Two very nice finds Derek.

Great job!!!

 

[unitas]

Two very nice finds,you should look for more!