Had a pretty good day in the creek......

[creekwalker]

Went out on a blustery day and found a couple of nice artifacts downstream of one of my favorite creeks.......The first looks to be an Adena Waubesa knife, which would fall into the Woodland age. It is 1 1/4" x 1/2". Tiny little guy. Found a nice broken Stillwell point not far away. The next point appears to be a Benton point, which is a common type for this area. It would date to the mid-archaic age. It is very thin, well made and measures 3" x 1 1/8" . Two nice finds on a tough day. As you can see in some of the pictures, A large portion of everything was frozen....Brrrrr!!!.. I'll take it. That's why we do it, folks. It's the thrill of the hunt! Enjoy, thanks and happy hunting!

 

[DMN]

Those are some sweet points. Good eyes!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Nice ones !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

I enjoy your post's. Keep em coming!


Mike

 

[phantomfinder]

Very cool find, WTG

 

[Roland58]

I would have never seen those! Great finds!!

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice finds! I have never tried looking in creeks here in Pennsylvania. It's always the plowed fields we look in.

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice points!!! trained eyes like ours spots them out of place stones easy MR TUFF

 

[IAsoldier]

Nice points

 

[Roland58]

nice points!!! trained eyes like ours spots them out of place stones easy MR TUFF

It's not so much a matter of "training", more like poor eyesight!! 8)

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

AWSOME arrow heads, wish I had somewhere to look for cool artifacts like that.I live in a valley rich with history ,first nations ,pictographs and such but dont know where to narrow down my search..thanks K.KID.

 

[Des from down under]

bl##dy fantastic post,,we never see anything like that down here....heh do ya wear polaroids..do they help

 

[AlaskaAng]

Creekwalker,

This is NEAT!! When I was very young, say 12 yrs old, I was at my great uncles farm for a family reunion. The kids decided to inner tibe down the creek to cool off. The creek was not deep at all, maybe a 1' or 2' at best. As I drifted downstream, I contiuned to scoop up the rocky bottom to see what I came up with and on one scoop, I scooped a real nice black arrow head! I couldn't tell you what it was or from what era but can tell you it was about 1.5" long and black. I found this in the very SW wisconsin area. After finding it, I didn't have a safe place to store it as I was in a swimsuit and way downstream of Mom and Dad...so I put it just under my suit hoping it would stay there...not so much as it was GONE when I reached the end. Oh well. I can still go to this stream as I believe there are many arrow heads in this location to someday find!

AlaskaAng

 

[steelheadwill]

Beautiful Finds!

 

[mainer]

Nice points. Very good insitu's. Keep em coming.

 

[chark21798]

I love finding points like that but i sure dont find that many. Super points. HH Mark

 

[The Master Chief]

Love the pics

 

[Gilligan]

I have seen numerous posts of people finding arrowheads in creeks, yours are impressive to say the least, congratulations! I have a question....we have had indians all around where I am at back in the day and we have a good creek that runs near us. Is it possible that I could find points in the river? How in the world do they end up there? Thanks

 

[creekwalker]

To answer your question, Gilligan, yes, you absolutely could! Think about this. Imagine what the area surrounding this area looked like in ancient times. What was one of the most important resources to early man? If you said "water", you are absolutely correct! Animals flock to the water as well. See where I'm going? They followed creeks and Hunted up and down them, ambushing game, trapping game etc.... They often had "campsites" up and down the water as well. I believe that some artifacts were left behind in the water itself. Some wash out of the banks coming from those campsites during flooding events. I have walked creek sections before, finding nothing, come back after a good rain and VOILA! you find stuff.... If your creek has gravel washes and deposits, look them! They "catch" points alot of the time. When looking for new sites, getting near a good, old body of water is a great starting point. I have been doing this for awhile now, and have found many outstanding artifacts. Not just Native American relics either. Old Glass bottles, are a favorite thing of mine to find also. It's definitely worth a shot! Happy Hunting....

 

[HISPAN]

Nice arrow heads ...congrats !