Hi All,
In another post, Bowmaster was asking about hunting with original flint arrowheads. I do have one.
When I was a kid (50+ years ago) there was an older gent who lived across the street. He'd been collecting since he was a boy. I grew up on the Ohio River south of Pittsburgh, between Wheeling and Weirton, West Virginia. There were two creeks near my hometown that ran into the Ohio, and both the creeks had wintering sites on them; one of approximately eight hundred acres. The old gent would walk the creeks after the spring rains collecting points, and had several farmers who would call him after they plowed in the spring.
I finally worked up the nerve to walk over and ask the gent to see his collection. He had a small room devoted to his finds. The walls were covered with framed heads....ten or twenty to the frame, sorted by size and color. He had map chests (note plural) where the drawers were full of heads laid out on cloth....arrow heads, spear points, tomahawk heads, knife blades, and scrapers. As a kindness from an old gent to a young boy he gave me the arrow head I still have.
One of the benefits of being a Tradganger is that occasionally someone's post will bring back a fond memory.