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Our local lake is super low right now and the camps on the north side of the creek channel are exposed. We went down and put the catfish rods out last week and walked the shore while we waited for a bite. Funny thing was that some friends who are dying to find a point had been down there fishing earlier that day.
Found this base where they’d put their chair.
Found this one stuck on a chunk of mud that had fallen off one of their boot heels!
And found this ugly but whole point in the edge of the water about 50’ down the bank.

Went for another lake walk yesterday with the boy. Found my first Celt. Unfortunately being underwater for so long did it no favors and it’s eroded quite a bit. But the chisel tip and rounded shape were still instantly recognizable.


Found one big turtleback and a super ugly lance point too.

Btt

Pit Bull hill finds today.
Place got disc cut about 5 weeks.
Was finding stuff on it in january before it got disc cut.
Made a thread on 2 really good finds on it back then.
1st time I have it in about 3 weeks.
Rain washing soybean straw down slopes and wearing down dirt clods.
Needs to get plowed again. The farmer is way behind the curve this year.
Probably due to inflation and waiting on seed or chemicals.
Honk for Joey.... he can even fuuck up arrowhead hunting....
He sprayed it with weed killer/ pre emergent right before the last time i went out.
Couple nut crushers I thought would have been intact in the pic.

👍🤙😎

Keep our spot active, lay plenty of discouraging footprints down

Total Psy-Ops 😃

The resident pit bull will do the rest ✔️

You know Willy G would be scared nutless of that dog 😂🤣🤣

Good finds fellas!!! Well done kid on that celt!

Great finds! Keep the thread alive!

Lucy zooming by him barking.
He would be terrified.

I aint seen anyone on any of the fields yet this year.
Might hit beaver lake hill again tommorow afternoon.
Aint even hit behind the barn or the rental house.
Did go to the deer stand one, the pond flat and that small ridge i showed you by the corner.
Hit the flat across the new house.

Places need to get plowed again then planted.

Most of my finds have been on pitbull and beaver lake hills.

couple mano's, a broke tip, base, and awl base today.

Got lucky in a food plot this afternoon. It almost always gives up a bunch of flakes and pieces of pottery, but today I saw this one laying there...

a beauty, Harry

Its not nearly as refined as those little points you find, but it is a complete point. Probably from an atlatl. Its way to heavy to be an arrowhead. This is the first complete point that I have found in a couple of years.

Congrats all y'all!!!

mathsr that is a beauty. What part of Georgia are you in? I used to find arrowheads along the Oconee River near Milledgeville.

Simon the area I look in is around the Ogeechee River, not far from Statesboro. I think this point would qualify as a Savannah River type point. They are one of the more common points found in the area.

I shoulda been putting all my finds on this thread thru out this spring.

Here are some from Labrador hill 2 mornings ago.
Raining hard around here since last night.
I need to hit some select fields again tommorow afternoon and saturday if possible.
Corn is getting almost 3/4ths way up to the knee.
Fields are getting played out kinda, but this is the hardest rain we have had in 3 weeks.
Give it a last push call it a spring...

mathsr it was so easy to find points in Georgia. Big 20 acre fields along the Oconee River, let them plow in April and then let it rain, there were so many flint flakes. I could have filled a gallon bucket with pottery chips in an hour.

I moved up here to N. Carolina, now I look along the French Broad River near Marshall. In 26 years I have found zero. Not one flake, not one piece of pottery. One of the explorers, Ponce de Leon I guess, met with the Indians in their village on Blannahasset Island, just 3 miles from here.

I did find some nice stuff back in Georgia, axe heads and even a nice piece of Indian jewelry.

Good looking stuff Renegade50! A lot of the pieces that you and Slumlord post from TN appear to be made of some sort of grey stone with long thin flake scars. It takes a good piece of flint to flake like that. Is this type of stone something that is commonly found in TN like a field stone might be? Around here (SE Georgia) all the stone suitable for knapping had to be brought in and much of it apparently didn't knap very well. I think most of it came from around middle GA.

Simon, on the coastal plane of Georgia they have been farming the same foot and a half of soil for well over 200 years. Much of that time was spent walking behind a team of mules or chopping cotton with hoe and many points have been found. I know of people that have thrown away boxes of artifacts that their family picked up over the generations of farming. Arrowheads are getting kind of hard to find in those same fields, especially whole ones.

Where we look is a couple of food plots that are about an acre in size. Only find stuff in a small area of both of them. 100 feet out of the "Zone" and you wont see even a small flake. You can walk firebreaks over the rest of the farm and you will find nothing. In one area we find a lot of pottery pieces as well as flakes, but not as many points. We have also found pieces of modern china, a clay pipe stem, a gaming piece made of pottery that was as round as a marble and buttons from the late 1700's. It must be an area that was inhabited for a long time judging from the variety of things found there. Both places are near the top of a sandy hill that is close to a water source.

I've never found a point, though I would think that the concentration of historical native activity would be high in my area of the straits of Mackinaw. About the only thing I find that others seem to find interesting is Petoskey stones, which are the fossilized remains of an ancient coral that was concentrated in this area. I find them all the time, including a few minutes ago on a jobsite.

Darn, yous guys must have had all the Indains living South of here. Of all the time spent on rivers fishing, and when younger, working on local dairy farms, fields were plowed then, never found anything of interest.

Do have some friends that metal detect around streams and rivers here, looking for old loging camp locations. They have shown me what look to be scrapers and an ax head made of copper found along one of the rivers. Some real cool stuff.