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Re: Arrowheads
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06/22/20 11:06 AM
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Here's a sample of some from along the Nueces in Uvalde. Predominantly lighter in color, depends if they were chert, flint, or obsidian. Looking for them right after a rain helps, while earth is still darker. Darker trade points from different areas show up in dry dirt and dust really well. My wifes family has a ranch downstream from Cotulla on the Nueces, we find lots of arrowheads there but at least a mile from the current river bed. I'm sure the river flowed close to that area at one time.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/22/20 11:22 AM
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My granddad was the ranch foreman of the ranch across the river from Colorado Bend State Park and Gorman Falls for about 50 years. He and I would go to the river bottom after a good rain looking for arrowheads as the whole area was a huge indian camp. Found some really good arrowheads too. One of the neighboring ranchers was an amateur archaeologist and he and granddad would poke around from time to time. One of those times he dug up the ground in front of a cave and found an infant that had been buried. He got boogered about that and immediately re-covered the remains. When Buchanan was low several years ago, you could find all sorts of stuff from about Tow and up the Colorado river from there. One of my co-workers was checking around the lake bed and happened to look in a hollow tree stump. He found some skeletal remains at the bottom of the stump. They were sent off for testing and came back to a male and had been in the stump for a minimum of 150 years. If you look for artifacts on lake beds you have to be careful, if you get caught taking them out you can get popped with violating the Texas Antiquity Act, a very substantial fine.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/22/20 12:50 PM
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Found this point the first time I actually ever went looking for one during spring Turkey season.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/25/20 11:18 PM
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This is what I have found so far on my Houston County 34 acres I bought last year, all on one small hill but we had to dig up to 2.5 feet deep. Found Caddo pottery in the smaller creek and various burnt rock and bones on the hill also. Much of the stuff is preforms, broken or poorly made petrified wood points but there are a few good ones.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/25/20 11:50 PM
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Found this point the first time I actually ever went looking for one during spring Turkey season. Awesome point!
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/25/20 11:54 PM
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This is what I have found so far on my Houston County 34 acres I bought last year, all on one small hill but we had to dig up to 2.5 feet deep. Found Caddo pottery in the smaller creek and various burnt rock and bones on the hill also. Much of the stuff is preforms, broken or poorly made petrified wood points but there are a few good ones. The 2.5 feet helps. I spent a little time yesterday, and found a few of the obviously worked points that are similar to some of the rougher points in your picture, but got bummed in the heat and gave up. That, and the pigs grunting in the cedars, just out of range, really pissed me off. I don't know whether to carry the rifle, or the triangle hoe!
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 12:15 AM
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I think you're in the right area of your place to find some more whole ones. I don't think I've found the honey hole spot on my hill yet as it seems many of these were the throwaways. It just takes some searching. I have found numerous chips, shards and petrified wood pieces there. I think I'm in the midden which might or might not have the better points. Found some probable tools also, as well as one big flat piece of sandstone that is totally out of place on the hill and I suspect one of the arrowhead makers was using it to sit on. Just keep probing that area and maybe dig a few test holes about two feet or so deep and you might find more. Our clay pan is not that deep right there so we only dig about 2.5 to 3 feet deep at that spot. I've only hand dug so it's kind of hard work and then I screen all the dirt. I have found multiple points or parts of points after rains on some of our unscreened dirt from before I started screening everything.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 01:28 AM
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Ive looked multiple times but have never found an arrowhead. Id really like to one day.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 02:18 AM
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All of these dug in a single day. Austin, TX. early 1970's at the headwaters of Bull Creek on my Aunt's property.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 02:34 AM
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Love that black one in the center!! I recently went on some payed screen digs in Bandera and Brazos county and found some there but nothing like finding them on your own land or lease!
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 07:50 PM
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Love that black one in the center!! I recently went on some payed screen digs in Bandera and Brazos county and found some there but nothing like finding them on your own land or lease! Yes, the black one (Darl) is nice material, has a nice point and decent serrations, a good find for sure, but the Golondrina (upper left) is by far the oldest point in that group and a much more desirable point (for rarity). I found that one in a trash midden among a lot of burned rock (about 3' down). Unfortunately, I was removing rock in a hurry and hit the edge of the point with my hammer....knocking a small amount of patina off of it.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 08:00 PM
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I don't know if you noticed it in my picture but that one broken base that is kind of mixed in on my picture looks like it totally doesn't fit with the rest of the crudely made eastern TX stuff. It has very fine chipping. Not sure if it could have been the base of something paleo but the craftmenship is much better on it. Too much missing to tell the story. I just found that piece a couple of weeks ago. Yeah that one in the upper right is an eye catcher for sure!
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/26/20 11:33 PM
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A few of my surface finds from South Texas
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/27/20 12:00 AM
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A few of my surface finds from South Texas Beautiful pieces.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/27/20 12:04 AM
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Found over last 4 yrs since we moved to ranch about quarter mile from house. The 2 obsidian in center were about 2 ft down,
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/27/20 12:04 AM
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Use your imagination, and try to envision what the flow path would have been back then. Our best picking has been almost 200 yards from the present river bed, but is up on a raised bank where they would have camped. correct, their camp was usually above any flood area
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/27/20 03:47 PM
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For sure. Makes me melancholy thinking about my old Indian site on the Guadalupe. Friend of ours sold it to a developer and they scraped it and removed all the dirt to haul it away and dump it. A travesty. Now there are million dollar homes sitting on top of the native campsite. This is near Gruene.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/27/20 04:15 PM
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/30/20 09:33 PM
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Here are a few of mine I have taken pics of. All of mine are all surface finds in La Salle and Kendall Counties mainly. The only time I dug was in a camp spot by a spring on the old Sisterdale/Lindendale stagecoach route...someone had taken backhoe and opened up that mound. The plat to that ranch had a marked Indian Camp on the ledge above that spring and the spot I dug at. Never found any points in that dig though just those 3 pieces of china (in the pic)down about 12" from the surface. Found a lot points and broken points around that site though. I also found an 1870's rimfire shell casing about 100 yards south of this site also. It had been fired twice from the crimp marks.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/30/20 09:57 PM
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Awesome points.
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Re: Arrowheads
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06/30/20 11:53 PM
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Cool. I have a few in an old cigar box. Need to get them out and display them.
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Re: Arrowheads
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07/01/20 04:54 AM
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We used to find alot here on our lease, but really no perfect ones, must've been a school place for making them
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Re: Arrowheads
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07/04/20 02:25 AM
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Here are a few of mine I have taken pics of. All of mine are all surface finds in La Salle and Kendall Counties mainly. The only time I dug was in a camp spot by a spring on the old Sisterdale/Lindendale stagecoach route...someone had taken backhoe and opened up that mound. The plat to that ranch had a marked Indian Camp on the ledge above that spring and the spot I dug at. Never found any points in that dig though just those 3 pieces of china (in the pic)down about 12" from the surface. Found a lot points and broken points around that site though. I also found an 1870's rimfire shell casing about 100 yards south of this site also. It had been fired twice from the crimp marks. Nice Montell in that upper group. Wish the tip had been on that Pedernales in the lower group. Nice points.
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