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Author Topic: Authentic Flint Heads  (Read 1012 times)

Offline Jason Lester

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2007, 07:47:00 PM »
Billy,

  I live a little ways away from Ft. Ancient. I have never found an arrowhead but I haven't realy looked. However I have a freind that said I could look through some of his less than perfect stuff and rework them and use them. I plan to take him up on it soon as feel good enough about pressure flaking to take on something that historical. I've made my own points but I don't feel worthy of working a real point.
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2007, 09:51:00 PM »
I've lived and played on the Tennessee river in North Alabama my entire life. Here's a little bit of what I've stumbled upon the last 40 some years......Tell me what all I've got here...THX Don and Skyler
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Offline SilverTip

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2007, 11:09:00 PM »
DW,you have some really nice relics, the antler tip points were used just like a arrowhead. and the lanceolate type points with the flutes are as old as they get here in the states, they are known as Clovis points. It looks like you have relics from just about all the time periods we have had to date. Paleo, Archaic,and Woodland.
  You have a great collection, thanks for sharing.
 
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2007, 08:28:00 PM »
Thanks Billy!
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2007, 08:40:00 PM »
This thread has really got my interest! Where are some of the best places for looking for old points?
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Offline SilverTip

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2007, 09:12:00 PM »
T.J.   the best place to look are plowed fields just after a hard rain, and also I walk along creek banks and sand bars in larger creeks and rivers. you have to develope an eye to spot them around the creeks. email me and I'll be glad to send you some links to web sites about this stuff.

  takecare and God Bless,  Billy
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2007, 09:35:00 PM »
Most of our fields are now no-till, which means very little broken ground and more weed cover....not a very good combo. Most of ours came from the river banks after a big flood or high water, back several years ago. Illegal to do that now. The over-hangs and cave shelter's in and on the surounding mountain-sides accounted for the rest. WE'RE only about 10 miles from Russell Cave, which is well known for some very old relics..Don and Skyler
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Offline oneshot1

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2007, 05:53:00 AM »
Thanks for the look DW, some great artifact's, antler point's, shell beads and bangle's, discoidial(cupped stone), Clovis, some kind of stemmed critter's...,sweet Pendant, nice Turkey tails,Agate basin?, Daltonish critter in lower left...T.J.check ANY disturbed dirt, construction, up-rooted tree's, road building, washed out stream banks, wood-chuck holes, etc.Look for material, flakes, chips, in Ohio you have Flint Ridge, a very colorfull flint, some blacks, gray's and whites glossy and dull flint also.Look for "worked stone", grinding or polish, Axes, celt's etc. Walk easy useing a stick to flip over and poke at anything that catches your eye,early am or later in the day is a better time cause the angle of the sun...Good Luck

Offline ishiwannabe

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #28 on: September 29, 2007, 10:29:00 AM »
I think the reason I dont find anything locally where I hunt has been discovered. I kinda feel foolish for never noticing...
Stopped at a nighbors house, his family  has owned land here for generations. We started talking about Native Americans, artifacts, etc. I commented how I have never found anything in the woods. He said "Ya probably wont" and produced some pictures from the early 1900's. They stripped the whole mountain and terraced it into fields. Thats when the light bulb went off  "[dntthnk]"  ...walk through these woods its a 45 degree agnle, then flat, then up another 45 degree angle, then flat.
Guess I should try the lowlands or river bottoms.
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #29 on: October 11, 2007, 01:42:00 PM »
Here is a small fraction of my collection. I have too many to show them all.

assorted pieces:
 

This is my favorite piece. It's translucent knife river flint:
 
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2007, 01:49:00 PM »
Here is a nice Quad:
 

Lost Lake:
 

Here are some more of my best including a perfect Gorget and a nice big St. Charles Dovetail:
 

Don, that Turkeytail (4th on top row) is really nice! I've searched for one of those for 20+ years   with no luck. It's worth a fair amount as is the clovis.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, Lean close to the Earth that you may hear the voice that I send. Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. (the prayer of Black Elk)

Offline John Dill

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #31 on: October 11, 2007, 08:32:00 PM »


A few heads from the mound builder period found on our family farm in North Georgia. Most are knives scrapers and atlatl heads. Any one guess what that center stone is?

Offline ChristopherO

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2007, 09:45:00 PM »
flintknpr17,
Way to go on our Traditional Harvest.  Your knapped head is just beautiful!  I wish I had the time and knowledge to accomplish that.

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2007, 10:09:00 PM »
John, I'd think the center piece is a net sinker.
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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2007, 10:31:00 PM »
Man....That didnt take long! Knife River thats exactly what it is! Good job!

Offline BamBooBender

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Re: Authentic Flint Heads
« Reply #35 on: October 12, 2007, 01:15:00 AM »
I used to work with an older gentleman in TX (now deceased) that had shoe boxes full of arrowheads and knives, along with other artifacts. I wish I had some pics, he had some great stuff. On his property he even had a historical marker, because it was the spot where Cynthia Ann Parker (mother of the famous Comanche chief Quanah Parker) was recaptured by the Comanche.

Btw I'm jealous of all the heads you guys have found.  :p  When I lived in Vernon TX I looked for arrowheads and never found even one.
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