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Greg1959

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Son was out walking around field I had plowed and disced. We have had rain pretty much for
two weeks. Ground was dry enough to walk on.

Anyway, he just came in and had found 3 arrowheads. It's kinda neat how the rain washes the
dirt off and they are just sitting there on top of the soil.

Y'all finding any arrowheads?
 
The area of Wisconsin that my farm is in was all forestland before the white settlers arrived and served as a prime hunting ground for the Indians. Most of them went south for the winter and just used this area for fishing and hunting after the rivers had thawed in springtime. There was an abundance of arrowheads to be found in the early days of farming. I have a quite an extensive collection. People from town used to come out and ask for permission to walk between the corn rows and look for arrowheads. They would usually carry a shoebox with them to have a place to put them. We don't have time to do that anymore but one shows up occasionally. Many times right where a lot of people have been walking for 100+ years.
 
No arrow heads here, but we have found a couple stone hatchet heads in our fields. My great grandpa lived just around the corner from where I do now, along the river bank. He was born in 1892 and always told of how when he was real young he would go down to the river to bring the cows in and the indians would be camped along the river sometimes.

Ross
 
I have found quite a few over the years around the farm. Most are woodland era, some a little older.
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Great grandfather had a farm near Stanchfield Minnesota they had shoe boxes full of arrow heads they found walking in the fields, some made out of strange stone not found locally, unfortunately they all disappeared years ago, some were very unusual, try to preserve what you find, I'm sure there are many more out there.
 
I have found over 120 years ago as a boy on my granps farm while walking and hoeing weeds and volunteer corn out of rowed beans.(never used any kind of spray back then)I have given most of them away over the years to son,nephews,and nieces and hope they will pass them on to their children.I don't have maybe 15 or so left.I also have a maize grinding stone and a hatchet head I found.
 
Lots of arrowheads and a couple stone hammers. Also Dad found a pipe made from pipestone one time.
 
gtractorfan- Yup, he can't wait for daylight in the morning. He is going to take his 8 year old daughter out to look for more.
 
Spudm- That's a really nice collection! Thanks for posting them.

It looks like these 3 arrowheads(from searching the 'net) are from the Adena Culture.
 
Den N Ms- He also found a worn/rounded end stone that looks like a maize grinding tool. We are still looking that up.
 
Greg.........Dad was a US Govt Surveyor in the 4-corners area of N Mex and Colo. He was always finding Indian arrowheads. As a teen, I learned to make my own arrowheads outta scraps of 1/4-thick window glass. Deer antler and heavy leather to hold it. CHIP-chip........HTH, the amazed Dell
 
Dell (WA)- I watched videos on utube on How to make them. It was exactly like you described.
 
there is a place near me called flint ridge near newark oh., where indians mined flint for arrow heads and tools, also to trade with other tribes. they have a knap-in twice a yr. one is comming up this month, it's nothing short of amazeing how fast those boys can knap an arrowhead, they also use glass to make them. if you're any where close you should take it in......
 
We had arrow heads and grinding hammers on our home farm too. We never let on to any one about it , as there is a reservation near by . And the local band likes to move in on "ancient peoples" sites and lay all kinds of claims . Like sacred burial grounds, and will , with guberment support , move in and dig the h@ll out of your farm , and stop you from using it.So we just kept quiet.
 
i use to live just off of flintridge rd about ten years ago on cottagehill rd.neighbors just up the road from me who lived on flintridge held some kind of napping event on there farm.
RICK
 
Thanks. I really enjoy finding an arrowhead in the field. Just knowing that you are the first one to touch it in over two or three thousand years is pretty cool....
 
I had heard that that Native Americans traveled from Michigan to Ohio to get the flint needed to make their hunting tools.
 
Never found an arrowhead but did find grinding stones and clubs/hammers. Because of the tall prairie grass, we think that it was too hard to see the game to shoot with arrows so they resorted to throwing rock clubs that they couldn't find again in the tall grass. I imagine that they only carried one club per person, so if they couldn't find it after they threw it, they would just have to go on home without any game - and make a new rock hammer.

There was a buffalo wallow in the center of our section; kind of surprised that there weren't any arrowheads to be found in the immediate area.
 
The Arrowheads are now framed behind glass. I really enjoy looking at them everyday. Not sure what tribe(s). Perhaps Pottawatomie, Ottawa, or Chippewa...
 
I have never found any on my farm. There are several burial mounds within a mile of me, but most are in the lowlands.
 
Before we bought this place a lot of people would walk the fields in the spring looking. I have found a few here, but most in the picture came from the other place and found a long time ago.
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I have 4-5 gallon buckets full of arrowheads. We find broken bits of Indian tools all the time. I dug a ditch, 8' deep with a 977 track loader with a side dump, 1/2 a mile long. At 1 point went right between 2 very large oak trees. The next spring 2 large stone bowls were found laying upside down right in the side walls. The Indians here used them to grind acorns in the fall, they left the bowls turned upside down under the trees to use the next year. I also have a nice 18" long pestle. This area was also part of Camp Adair in WWII, we find a lot of ordinance. All the old concrete building foundations are lined with ordinance and broken Indian artifacts. I have an old metal clover seed tote, 4'x8'x4' full. All the ground is river bottom, sandy soil, no natural rock so anything hard (stone) is easy to find, really stands out....James
 
ohiojim- I used to go to Newark for three days each month to attend Appltrre Antique Auction.

There was a indian mound state park on the way to Newark, IIRC.
 
Rare now that we find any good ones. Great grandpa, grandpa, and dad found most of em. My brother got the whole collection of about 3-4 shoe boxes full.

I do find a few scrapers, and awhile back found what I guess is a hammer, made to fit the palm of your hand.

Gene
 
Out her in California, you better hope you don't find any Indian stuff. If you are planning a construction project, or you will be hiring a archaeologist to do a study of your land. I got a good disking job from that same thing. I would disk the area, then a water truck would go over the land, to wash dirt from rocks, or what ever. I went over the same area several times. Stan
 
I worked with a guy that was big into arrowheads & also made them. He used a deer horn to push with to put the final touch on them. He made them out of glass, tile, flint, etc. & they were flawless. He said most of the Indians didn't spend the time to make them pretty & only a few of each tribe were really good at the art. I wish I had some photos of the ones he has made.
 
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