Hey folks
I just wanted to see some of the arrowheads or artifacts y'all have found.
I've been Lookin for arrowheads, beads, scrapers, my whole life and I ain't found jack! Lol. One busted point and one busted scraper. Lots of chips and worked flint but never anything good.
Let's see em!
I know this is off subject, but I just wanna see some old stuff
Thanks in advance for sharing pictures, stories would be cool too

Bump so I can find this later. I'll take pics of some of the ones I have found tomorrow.

These are the only two I have ever found. The top one was found in a creekbed in Rowlett (Dallas county) and the bottom one was found on a hill in Commanche County.

Got a few. Have to re-find them.

I'll post pics of my busted stuff tomorrow. Lol

Y'all may not be interested in Seein em, but if you are...... Bump this thing up!

Hey JJ show them the finger! Lol

I've gotta find it, but I will.

I found a bunch of them in the sulphur river as a kid. pretty easy to find actually. You just have to step around all the dinosaur bones. They are all over the place down there. Lots of shark teeth too.

We built a food plot along the Colorado River in Coleman County. Must have been a heavily used camp site. After ever heavy rain, I find multiple artifacts. Here are a few:





















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Dang! You've cleaned house!!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1490159452025&set=a.1329431793934.2043558.1175149610

i found all these with my 5 and 9 year old daughters and my wife in 2 hours.

Here is some of the ones I've found in the last 10 years. I have another frame almost as full.

I have never even found one. My hat is off to you.

No joke. What would you charge me to go with you next time?!
I guess I can't view Facebook pics due to not having an account

found this in mixon( just south of troup)

ill have to get mine out. i have about 3 ziploc bags full that i have been meaning to put in shadow boxes. i have one that i believe is a clovis!!! thats old.

If you have a true Clovis point, you have a very EXPENSIVE point on your hands! I'd like to see it.

ill see what i can do about gettin the pictures up. i used to arrowhead hunt alot. last time i looked through my points and noticed that one i got all kinds of excited. started when i was young and didnt really know alot about them.

45 years of hunting all over Texas and I finally found ONE 2 years ago.

I knew a guy that was a fossile hunter and he had never found an arrowhead, one day while hunting fossiles he ran into a guy with a pocket full of arrow heads who said he had never found a fossile (hunting in the exact same area).

I guess it has to do with what you've trained yourself to look for... I see a lot of wild life.

couple of waco sinkers,some nice and decent points, and a few scrapers.

what i think could be a clovis. if not, its the closest ill probably ever find. sorry the pics are kind of crude. took with my phone. have acouple other bags, just grabbed a few out of the first bag. hope you enjoy!

These were picked up over several years while hunting various leases in Texas and also while hunting in other states. Many found in places one would not normally have thought to look. No telling how many shot opportunities at game I have screwed up because my eyes where scanning the ground instead. I once was on a lease near Eden Texas and one of the guys in the camper next to me commented about how he had never found an arrowhead. I started walking him around behind his trailer explaining what he should be looking for. Rather than looking for an actual arrowhead I told him to watch for the flint, then kick it up for a better look. Seconds after I had said that, he pointed to a little edge of flint sticking out of the dirt between some rocks and asked "like this?". And to his surprise it was the first arrowhead he ever found. It had been laying 10 ft behind his camper all along and he never knew it for all the years he had been on that lease.

Nice collection!

Very nice!

Ttt

DO yall just find them sitting on top of the soil are are yall digging these things up. I have spent many moons looking and looking and have never found 1 on my many travels across Tx.

I have a clovis I will try to post pic of later. Plowed fields with big creek or river on north side with medium to high bank so the sight did not flood them. If you find flint chips then points are there and would be good sight to run a sift table. And if any body has good sight I would gladdly show you what I know about finding good points

creek and plowed feilds are good places. i made a sifted box and just hit the creeks. as stated above,look for flint! i have found them on top of the ground. in the creeks, in the creek banks. cant find them if you dont look.

Unfortunately, its not a clovis. Looks more like a Gower point, but not certain. Those have shoulders (flare out near base) like yours, and clovis do not.

well a guy can dream!!!! i love getting out lookin. u just never know what your gonna find.

i found this a couple years ago.
i think is may have been a scraper ?

i have found about 20 or so ,also some potter pieces with some design will try to get pics posted east Texas, Jasper co

Now that would make a nice blade or large point.

That would be a well used Pedernales, and a prime example of why we find so many point's. They wear out and are replaced and discarded.

http://www.arrowheads.com/perds.htm

I did find some pottery, a grinding rock and ??matate?? (bowl for grinding) a couple busted ones, and a petrified Finger as mention before by boyd1212. Can't find the finger though!! Ugh

Ttt

I was walking from my blind 10yrs. ago in East Tx. and found this arrowhead lying in the road.

I have about ZERO luck finding anything like that but bayourat can find them as if they had a flag marking them. I have a couple pics in photobucket I will dig up & post. We also have found neat fossil shells on the lease by the lake.

Mike, my first thought was a perd too, but it sure looks like a gower I found years back, so I 'flipped a coin'. Basically some examples look just alike to me.... The Archy I asked said a lot depended on the site it was found in. Gowers are much older and less common.

Cool stuff!!! Anybody else??

It is funny how some people can find them and others can't. My wife's cousin can walk along Crystal Beach and in a matter of minutes find a couple shark teeth and I can look in the same area and not find any. She literally has probably found 1000's and I can't find a one.

I've found a bunch in Galveston. Where'd she find em?

Hi, I just moved 2 Texas from NC. I have enjoyed collecting Artifacts since i was 5. My Question is where is a good place 2 look for artifacts? I live in Killeen. thanks

Here are a few that I have found




Some cool metal I have found.

What pistol did that frame belong to? And what is that steel ball looking thing? Cool pictures.

any knappers in here?

Nice assortment, those small blades are nice, Found or traded,, And same on the 36 cap frame an cylinder,above, Wonder if they ever met?, The salt creek fight was on our lease, Day long fight 36s vs shafts, Do you think people had rough life then?

The Pistol frame I found along the San Gabriel River (Williamson County) I believe it to be Remington 1878 Model. I can read Remington on the barrel. The Cylinder was found on our farm in the back pasture. There was a old homestead back in the day. I have found some older indian head pennies and legend has it that two $20.00 gold pieces were found by the well. Its a cool spot, I always check it out after we plow it and we get a good rain so much stuff comes to the top. There is a old model T burried there with just the post to the roof in view anymore. The round ball (4 pounder cannon ball) was given to me by friend that was working the Pipe line, If I remember right close to Fort Gage near Oklohoma. They said thier gieger counter kept screaming in front of the trencher and the ball was catupulted out when the trencher hit it.

Wow those arrow head's are cool. I new a couple in Colorado that looked for arrow head's every weekend along some river, I alway's thought it would be fun to do that.

About 4 or 5 I know of that post pretty regular.

A few I have found over the years. The best and biggest part of my collection was stolen while I was in college.

Found this blade a couple years ago, but can't figure out what it is. I'm thinking it's a Friday. Anybody know?

Hi, I Love ur collection of artifacts . I recently moved 2 Killeen from NC. I have collected Artifacts myself since I was 5. I have been here in this Beautiful state of Texas since Jan.1 . I am Chompin @ the Bit 2 find some of Texas's Beautiful Artifacts !!! My prob. is I know no one & dont know where to start? Can u help ? I can be reached @(828)-371-2972 any time. Thanks so much for your time, David!

Nice stuff folks. I'd help you out if I could, but I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to finding artifacts!! Lol

My grandfather has a HUGE collection that he has found in New Mexico around Carlsbad, unfortunately my uncle has them, wish I could show ya'll, cool stuff on here. I am definitely going to keep my eyes open in a couple spots with a lot of flint around. Thanks for the tips and the pics

Beautiful Piece. Looks like a Knife blade 2 me. How long is it?Judging by it's shape, & it's not Knotched,on the opposite end from the point.It just looks like Knife Blade 2 me? Hope that was some help 2 u?Again love the pic.

I think it's a Friday biface as well. Really nice piece. Interesting curve to it... The Fridays are pretty much a central TX artifact. Did this come from cenTX?

These are some Knives I made a couple yrs ago!

Yes sir, I found it on my place in the Oakalla area. It's about 4 1/2 inches long. Too bad the very tip of it is broke. I'm proud of it either way though.

And you should be, pieces of that quality and size are rare. There is allot of debate about blades like that and many others and the question is were they halfted and was their purpose to cut. Some seem to think that blade and others like it were designed more around the working of hides. Having made many blades in the past one thing I can tell you is they don't cut worth a damn. But where they really shine is in the fleshing of hides. I can flesh-out a hide better with a properly designed flint blade than a steel one. If cutting is your intent then nothing works better than the raw untouched edge of of a thin flake of flint. It's hader than steel and holds it's edge much longer, and when dull or damaged you just strike off another flake and keep going. We have several campsites on the big ranch along with a couple of areas where they quarried the flint. In the quarry area the ground is covered in flint where they used hammer stone's to work the larger pieces they dug out of the side of the hill. As a flint knapper one of the thing's I've noticed is the lack of any pieces of usable flint in these area's. Most is chunky and useless. When I go to the same area and use the same hammer-stones they used (this area is covered in them) I'll end up with a bunch of sharp edged thin flakes and these are the flakes that are missing in this area. Now when we go back to the campsites we find the ground to be littered in thin sharp edged flakes and this is where we find our bigger blades and most of our point's. When looking at the flakes you'll notice on many that the back side of the flake has had a little bit of work on them ( grinding or minimal pressure flaking) in an effort to remove the sharper edge. We've found a couple of undamaged blades in that area but most or broken. What the blades all have in common is pressure flaking to one side of the edge leaving a very steep angle somewhere in the 35 to 45 degree angle leaving them with a useless cutting edge but a great edge for scraping the flesh from a hide. The easiest and the handiest way to use these blades is in the unhalfted form, when I've tried to halft them in any manner it just got in the way and limited the versatility of the blade.

Just an observation.

And another observation that stands out, some of the blades were designed for a lefty!

After 23 years, I thought I had cleaned out my lease, but I found these two this year. A spear point and axe head. I got an invite to go hog hunting on a lease near Vernon this weekend. The Pease River borders one side of the lease. I plan to poke around there between hog hunts.

Neat!

Here's a few of mine, mostly San Saba, Coleman and Tarrant county.

Cool stuff! I have a bunch at home. After looking up Clovis Point I think I have at least the start of one that's made of black obsidian. I was bow hunting elk in New Mexico and kneeled down to watch some elk and right there next to my knee was a point and scraper. It was cool to imagine that some indian knelt down there at the same spot and dropped his work. I'll see if I can find it. I found one just the other day at daugher's lease near Winters - gave it to the grandkids.

Here is what I have found at my lease over the last 10 years. Not a bunch, but I think they are awesome!
I took the one in the second photo to an arrowhead show, had it authenticated. Can't find the certificate, but they had a bunch of questions for me and finally said it was a "hybrid" made by one type of people and then found many years later by a second type of people and modified. I have no idea, just pick them up when I see them...

Just incredible that these people lived off of these:


When we use modified razorblades. It is quite humbling to consider, especially since I have yet to harvest an animal yet while bow hunting using modern broadheads and a compound bow. Awesome pictures I love this kind of stuff!! keep em comin!!!

While walking slowly don’t look for arrowheads look for flint. Once you have trained your eyes to do this the arrowheads will be easier to find. Pickup any pieces of flint you find and inspect it. Once you’ve master the art of training your eyes for flint, you will be amazed to what you will find. If you find a worked piece of flint or arrowhead stop and mark that spot. There is a good chance there are more in the area. Once you find one I try and walk a straight line back and forth 100 long x 50 yards wide both directions. I can’t tell you how many times this has worked for me. I would also suggest slowly walking the ranch roads. Be sure the roads are made out of the natural soil of your land. Again I can’t tell you how many times this has produced for me. Also try to slowly walk the livestock and game trails. (The more the trail used the better) I have found some of my best arrowheads walking on trails. Once you find an area that is producing keep going back. It seems like I find more on every trip back to these areas.

Good Luck

One more suggestion, use the sun to your advantage flint reflects like glass. Always look towards the sun when you get a chance, I've found arrowheads that were over 100 yards away simply by their reflection.

Here are some I have found over the years. Mostly pieces.

Found these on a mountain in Northern Nevada

We have found some at the Crystal City Ranch but they are very crude looking. I like to joke and say that those indians were high on Peyote when the made them.

Here are 2 my dad and I found a long time ago in Paducah. Top one is dad's and the bottom one is mine

Neat stuff!!

I found this opening day of Duck season. Hope it is a sign of the rest of the season. Near this point we found a bunch of big flakes. They are all at the bottom of a large deteriorating hill, where heavy rains have pulled them into natural sluece box type ravines. We are going to dig the little "Waterfall" looking areas where the gravel is collecting. I just know we are going to find a lot more with the sifters.

Got a couple frames up at the new house. Still working on getting more up. I have my dad's collection and mine. 30+ years of surface hunting and some digging.