Just curious if anyone else on this site is a "flint- head." I do a lot of rock hunting after bow season. I have a small collection compared to some of the other rock hounds I know. Mine consists of about 90 "case" pieces and probably more than 1,000 broken ones. My boss has more than 7,000 pieces in cases; 95% of which he found himself. Holler at me if you like this kind of "hunting."
I was into it for a while.i guess i had a few hundread arrowheads,i found most of them in owen co. and around elkhorn creek in franklin co.
Used to love to hunt them when I was younger,I'd trapse through the tobbaco fields after every rain,getting harder to find places to hunt them seems like,people want them for themselves and the government land is off limits. I had a huge collection at one time,gave them to my oldest son.
yup yup! We've got closets fulls lol. Starting college I dove into an archaeology degree bc I had been looking for 8 years or so already but you have to get a doctorate really to go far...and really the only thing to do is to teach anymore
Yep, I am currently in the process of building a house and cleared 4 acres where there was a huge Indian settlement and have found three arrowheads this week alond with about 50 pieces of flint. I will try to remember to take a picture this weekend when I am back at the site. Here is two interesting pieces I picked up a few months back: Not sure what the tool was used for, but it was pretty cool. Found a spear nearby too but I have it at school for my students to see. All were found less than fifty yards from three burial mounds.
When I was younger I loved to hunt them. I hav about 20 show pieces the rest broken, It seems I do not have time anymore but I hope to do more some day
My late father in law could find arrowheads in the middle of a black topped highway. I never could spot 'em the way he did. He even found a copper or bronze arrowhead while in Greece.I have several places that were inhabited by injuns but never find anything.But then, I was always better at finding civil war artifacts.
I haven't hunted 'em in years. I used to really be in to it and found a couple dozen and an axe head, some grinding stones, and a lot of flint. Let's meet up and have a show and tell some time.
I used to hunt them,but its been a while. Its a good feeling to find a piece of worked flint thats been covered for hundreds or thousands of years,and wonder what was going on and the surroundings when that indian was working that rock
I am not good at it but my sister can spot a piece of flint in a roadside ditch while doing 50 mph. She has a extensive collection from over the years. One she took to a museum head to check out is worth several thousand $$$ and dates back to the stone age. Me I find broken pieces is all.
I found an old rawhide steel-bladed knife in a creek when I was a kid once,Cincinnati Museum of Natural history dated it to the mid-1700's somehow. One of my brothers swiped it and sold it somewhere. Might have belonged to Simon Kenton or co.
Forgot to mention,after reading this post I went and got permission to arrowhead hunt 800 acres a friend of mine owns with what could be burial mounds and along some river/creek bottoms.
