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Curious about that myself.
We have one very similar to those pictured somewhere around the house. Believe either our son found it on one of his metal detecting excursions or maybe a grandson found it and gave it to his grandmother. Wondering if maybe it was used as a weight for a net or line fishing or maybe a childs toy doll effigy?

I went out today and hit it again. I'll post up more pics tonight when I can get everything scrubbed up.

Working full time, and doing 9 hours of peritoneal dialysis EVERY night is wearing me out and chewing into my artifact exploits. Better than sitting around wailing and gnashing ones teeth over Cruz dropping out. Hahaha! Fugg all that chit.

The peanut shaped rocks, geologically- they are limestone/chert concretions.

To find them 'high n dry' in a silty-loam field, they are far removed from their native stratigraphy. So I wonder too what their significance is lying strewn about an area of debitage and worked pieces. Shrugs...

My brother and I took my 98 year old Mom out this afternoon after lunch to look for arrowheads. She rode in a Gator ATV. I wanted to get her on the back of a Honda 4-wheeler, but didn't get much support for the idea. I think she would have been fine. I don't think that anybody that knows her would be surprised at all.

Once we got to what we think was an old camp site, she was ready to get out and start looking for arrowheads. After a few steps and bending over countless times to look at oak leaves and quartz rocks, Mom had abandoned her walker and picked up the shaft of a golf club with a nail stuck in the end that someone had left at the site. She was poking every rock and leaf in site saying, "is that one". After about 10 or 15 minutes dang if she didn't find the back half of an arrowhead. I couldn't get it away from her to take a picture of it and when we dropped her off at home she was still clutching it in her hand.

Some days are just better than others and this was one of them…

Mathsr,
Cherish every moment with her. You will be glad you did.

Last good day in the field for me for a while. Honestly thought this thread and its contents and my contributions would get more appreciation. But oh well fugg it, I realize the main type of people on this forum now. Bunch of do-nothing retired people who have had their balls surgically removed.

Glad to see Mathsr your 98 year old loved one is still able to get out. She must have 100x more drive than 19,000 members of this forum. Aka the the cut-n-paste Hannity jockeys.



Anyway for few that do look: this point was found by partner. He views this post, he will claim it.

Nice big tool, heat treated. With Adena.

You did VERY good as usual! Still waiting on good weather to fall on my days off here... Made a few day trips, but I'll have some 3-4 day trips in the near future. Gotta week long prairie dog shoot in ND with some friends coming up real soon... After that it's game on until hunting season!

I have never waited to pick up a point so that I could get a picture of it. It just wouldn't occur to me at all… I guess growing up with a twin brother and fighting, more often than not, for what we got trained me to grab it and look for what ever is next.

Great thread. Await new posts eagerly.

Drug my nuts out and found a few recently. (haven't been castrated) I guess my eyes haven't failed me, as I find a few of these tiny arrow points. The two larger of the three are dart points. But I'm sure all of ya'll know that. Anyway, this is a fun thread. Nothing much better than hunting arrowheads. All the ones I have shown come off of my own property, so I don't have to jack with trespassers, thank God !!! All of them have come off of a campsite that is about 2 acres in size.

Don't think I'll be here in 24 years, but I hope my kids would take me out hunting when I was 98 !!! Love to hear your Mother made her find. Good on you !!!!

Wish I could have got her on that 4X4 with a grandson driving. That would have been a picture worth posting! She used to take my brothers and me arrow head hunting when we were little. She probably hasn't been in close to 55 years.

I showed her the pictures of the points y'all are finding and posting here and she got excited and wanted to know about each point.

When we took her home she had dirt all over her pants and a pocket full of flint.

Y'all really helped make her day!

Great finds oldgunsmith!!!

I'll try to keep this thread alive, but soon the corn in my row-crops sites will be too tall and crowding.

I invested much more of my search time this spring field truthing a hypothesis upon a few different sites that could have been either kill-process camps or ambush sites.

Actually foregoing the regular hot spots along what we deem as 'the river site'. We searched around several sinkhole basins, two are actually ponded up. Around these places (which is a 3/4 mile from the main camp), we pinpointed these new searching grounds. The payoff was dead on! These basins we most likely mud wallers and watering holes for large game.

The key is to not park within 1/2 mile of the site to not alert the pillheads. Even so far as to wear light, drab or khaki clothing the match the dirt way out across the hillsides. We can usually hear the pillheads coming. Small, POS car or s-10 with no muffler, most pillheads drive chevys. Lol

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Found a nice Frio point last March on our annual Hog hunt in south Llano county . I gave it to the rancher so he could "hide" it where his wife would find it!!! She loves to hunt them points. And gets so excited when she finds one! They are both damn good folks!!!!

LOVE THIS STUFF!!

The richest artifact site I have ever seen is between two rivers on a triangle shaped piece of ground that is maybe 40 acres in size. My father farmed it during the Depression and knew it was full of artifacts. We found everything from stone bowls to arrowheads made from the old iron wagon wheel hoops. Over the years we had probably taken out a pick-up box of really neat stuff and twice that much junk. A guy bought the place and would not allow anyone near it...common opinion was that he was growing pot on parts of it. He died and his kin sold it to a developer who put a go-cart track and trailer park on it.

I look forward to this form! Slumlord I have a cigar box full of points and knives just like the ones you have found, but mine were found by my father and 2 uncles 65-80 years ago in Tenn. while plowing behind a mule! thye would find a few things every spring, even have a 4 sided knife, by the time i was old enough to want to look for them my Grandfather had sold off part of the farm, and that was the spot that they used to find the points. Farm was about 8-10 miles out side of Dickson Tenn.

Yes it does!