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Tica, I have almost gotten myself killed a few times while surveying on construction sites. I tend to look down far too much. But I do have my boss hooked on trying to find them after I picked one up in his footprint when he was looking for one on an excavated creek bank. I can't remember which pictures I posted up- I hate to do any reposts- but here is my pride and joy that I found last spring. It was shining like a q beam in the clear water on the extreme upper end of a what turns into a sizeable river. Not far from where I found this point the water comes out of the hill to start its long journey downstream. I have found that, if I hunt the upper end of old creeks, I tend to find more complete artifacts.





That is a fine dime ain't it duckter?

Tica here is a point that has me confused. It is a large point- probably the biggest I have found so far. It has a cool coloration on one of the shoulders and made my knees buckle when I saw it had been broken off. I cannot seem to find a fit to what point style this is. The shoulders are barbed pretty heavily- the picture does it no justice (it's a crappy picture I had to crop it out). But the rounded tip makes it an oddball. I cannot see what this would have been used for. Maybe for blunt force trauma? It's not like any of the knives I have found. It seems as though it was used as a projectile but it doesn't look very aerodynamic. The only thing I can figure is the point was broken at the tip and reshaped with the rounded tip? I have no idea, maybe you can give some input.

Awesome point. Check out the secondary edge work flaking. He spent some time on that one. You said "where the water comes out of a hill". Sounds like a spring to me and springs are magnets to ancient people. Bound to be a lot more there.

Springs and spring runs (creeks running away from spring heads) are fantastic places to hunt artifacts. Fresh, clean water that never freezes is a given for major camp sites.

Here is a video of a hunt I went on yesterday. I found a neat green stone Celt (axe head)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A3R_qah4bY

On that last point

It looks like a Kirk corner notch to me. Most all large points were used as knifes. They sometimes intentionally rounded the tips for a specific use. We have a point over here called a cotaco creek. It is a stemmed triangle point with all points of the triangle rounded off. It is often found on the river banks where I think they used it to open mussel shells. No sharp tips, just sharp edges to open shells.

Any idea about this?
I found a larger stone little smaller then the paml of a hand. Had finger groves it like it was used for something.

This stone might just be a rock but had me interested for some reason. The sides are really rough when everything else is smooth.
Just a rock or arrowhead wanna be?

It is hard to tell if it is an artifact without a closer look at the edges. It could be a scrapper but does not look like a perform for an arrowhead.

Snappers will have fine secondary edge work like some arrowheads and like you said will fit nice in your hand.

Here are some finds I had in the month of May:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2k6BPr ... e=youtu.be