I have found the occasional arrowhead while hunting deer and turkey. One day though after a long hot turkey hunt a friend and I stopped on an old fence line to take a break. I barely noticed what was on the ground at our feet. I guess because I was hot. My friend said, looky here, someone dropped some muzzle loading bullets. He thought they were modern bullets. I looked and he had picked up 2 bullets for sure. They were bullets, but they were from 1864. I did not know the history of the area we were hunting. I wasn't into history much but I had a brother that was. After showing my brother what we found he went back with a metal detector and found several more bullets. I guess he didn't think much was there so he didn't go back. The next year I started researching the war between the states and battles and how they fought. So About a year later I purchased a metal detector and went back. I found several more bullets, a spoon, harmonica reeds and what is pictured. It kinda made my brother jealous! LOL. I thought I would share a little history from the battle of Okolona.
I love history, my interest tends to go from the Revolutionary War, The French and Indian Wars and on back. I can still appreciate a good treasure hunt though. I would have found the bullets most interesting being that I shoot muzzle loaders myself.
I have started a very small collection of belt buckles now that I have lost enough weight that I can wear them though so this is neat to me as well.
That is really neat, I have done some reenactments and I would love to find something like this
here is one I found close to the battle of Raymond that I would gladly trade you Don
(https://i.imgur.com/Dn8jm6W.jpg)
Quote from: PSEoutlaw07 on February 28, 2019, 10:45:43 PM
That is really neat, I have done some reenactments and I would love to find something like this
This is what got me into reenacting. I don't anymore though.
Quote from: 3bailey3 on February 28, 2019, 11:00:19 PM
here is one I found close to the battle of Raymond that I would gladly trade you Don
(https://i.imgur.com/Dn8jm6W.jpg)
Very nice, I have been to Raymond a couple of times. We had a huge reenactment there. 1998 I believe.
Awesome finds. I've done a little metal detecting but haven't found anything super cool with it. Aquachigger is a cool channel on YouTube for you metal detector/ civil war / history guys.
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Very cool stuff to find. I bet that area is full of neat treasures.
I have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.
Very cool!
Cool finds. I hunt for stone arrowheads & spear points, though not as much as I used to. There's not as much deep plowing for tobacco going on these days as it used to be, making finding artifacts more difficult.
The oldest spear point I found is from around 12,000 B.C. and the most modern arrowhead I've found is from around 1,750 A.D. People have lived around here for a long time.
Jim
Really nice points. I have found several here in SC but not anything as nice as your collection. I'm still looking for that elusive "Clovis Point" would love to find one!
Ive found a pretty good bit of arrows heads. But nothing civil war. That belt buckle is awesome!!!! A buddy of mine thought he civil war bullet. But come to find another guy in the camp was a traditionalist! lol
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Really nice points. I have found several here in SC but not anything as nice as your collection. I'm still looking for that elusive "Clovis Point" would love to find one!
I have one clovis point. I found it in a creek.
I've found several "arrow heads" which were really Atlatal points or spear points only the very tiny ones you find are the actual arrow heads. It's rare to find them nowadays. My Grandpa found hundreds but he knew were they had camps and even burial mounds. I know it's wrong to dig thru burial grounds but back then it was common. When my grandpa was a boy the massive clearcutting of the state had taken place and you could see across miles of land. All the old campsites and burial mounds were easy to find as well as family cemeteries. Now the woods have come back and very few know we're these areas are
Not a lot of Civil war battles here but I've talked to a few old timers that found cannon balls in the 2" dia size years ago.
Really neat story.... Finding relics and understanding the history of the items is the interesting part. I hv a buddy who digs out outhouses in the Philly area....he finds all kinds of neat revolutionary era pieces... Bottles, ink wells, pottery, pipes, buttons, cutlery. Etc
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Quote from: coyote1 on February 28, 2019, 11:53:38 PM
I have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.
Just finishing up the last of the four volume "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". What a brutal war. I just can't understand why the northern states refused to let the South go in peace. The war was so costly in lives and material and the war bears much responsibility for the big government problems we face stil today.
Yes sir, my boy and I walk fields all summer long looking for arrow heads. Central MS
Very cool! I hunt a place just outside of a southern town that has a lot of Civil War history and was told they had a small battle on the very place I hunt. I think one of the caretakers has found a few things but I'm always looking in creek beds while hunting.
I found this on a sand bar one day in Mississippi.
We've got quite a collection of points found on our family farm in Indiana. Granddad said they also use to have a 5 gallon bucket on the front porch that they would throw them in. Was supposedly 3/4 full and they came home one day in the 60s and it was gone.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190302/3276556223ea5cc4d209567458068290.jpg)
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I found this on a sand bar one day in Mississippi.
We've got quite a collection of points found on our family farm in Indiana. Granddad said they also use to have a 5 gallon bucket on the front porch that they would throw them in. Was supposedly 3/4 full and they came home one day in the 60s and it was gone.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190302/3276556223ea5cc4d209567458068290.jpg)
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In this context it is immediately recognizable as a point, however laying on a sand bar along a stream, I'd never see it for what it is. Wish I was more in tune with seeing these.
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Quote from: Gobspur on March 01, 2019, 07:39:42 PM
I found this on a sand bar one day in Mississippi.
We've got quite a collection of points found on our family farm in Indiana. Granddad said they also use to have a 5 gallon bucket on the front porch that they would throw them in. Was supposedly 3/4 full and they came home one day in the 60s and it was gone.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190302/3276556223ea5cc4d209567458068290.jpg)
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In this context it is immediately recognizable as a point, however laying on a sand bar along a stream, I'd never see it for what it is. Wish I was more in tune with seeing these.
Me neither. I only noticed it because my boot kicked it and of course sounded different than the sand and gravel. Looked down and it was clear as day.
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I am really bad about walking with my head down looking. I have walk up on some birds because I was looking down, when I found the US buckle I had been hunting for a few weeks and I was wore out I was driving out and I saw it laying on the ground beside a road in a huge field we had on our lease and I didn't stop. the next day after getting beat up by some gobblers again, I take the same road out and see it again and keep on driving, about 20 yards after I pass it I slam on brakes and walk back to it, I could not believe it.
Finding arrow heads by walking up on them takes a lot of luck. When creeks washout there banks after a flood you can sometimes get lucky. This picture is an old cave that was used as a campsite, it is in a hill above a creek and the hillside is steep while there's a flat spot at the cave. You can see the black rock were campfires were made next to the opening. I'm sure a lot of animals used the cave as well, it has a small entrance but opens up inside to almost standing height 4-5 people could probably sleep inside. I've found several pieces of arrow heads were they must have been making them and culled the ones that broke. All the good relics were taken long before I found this place.
There's another campsite several miles from this one in some thick woods along a creek. Another overhanging cave and on the ground are perfectly round bowl shaped holes chipped into the rock of the cave floor. I was told they used them to grind up acorns, roots etc. I need to take some pics of that place also
I used to collect arrowheads/spear points, axes, pendants and such. Our home farm was in prime Indian territory here in southern Ohio. One of the largest mounds anywhere is 1/2 mile from the home place. There are tons of old camp sites. For years the archeologist that were digging the sites in our area rented a house off us and my mom cooked for them. I saw a lot of really nice stuff. I had over 500 pieces at one time and someone finally offered me a price I couldn't turn down and I sold them all but my best two pieces and I still have them. Now my daughter is a museum curator out west and I am leaving what I have to her. I have seen their store rooms and the stuff they have is amazing. Like cut-n-run said no one deep plows anymore and stuff is hard to find. Every once in a while a bank will wash off the river and expose camp middlings of points, awes and pottery shards. some nice looking stuff guys. My best piece ever is a highly polished black granite celt with markings. My biggest heart break was finding half of a double winged atlatal weight (butterfly banner stone) out of banded slate.
I do a little metal detecting, never found nothing much other than coins and old jar lids.
I've collected indian stuff for years, but haven't looked much the last few years.
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I have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.
Just finishing up the last of the four volume "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". What a brutal war. I just can't understand why the northern states refused to let the South go in peace. The war was so costly in lives and material and the war bears much responsibility for the big government problems we face stil today.
I wholeheartedly agree. The war should have never been fought, shows how powerful people/government can influence folks.
Hank Jr. (If the south would have won we would have it made) he's right. I can guarantee the government wouldn't to so big and out of control.
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Quote from: silvestris on March 01, 2019, 10:15:17 AM
Quote from: coyote1 on February 28, 2019, 11:53:38 PM
I have always been interested in the civil war , read everything I can get my hands on.
Just finishing up the last of the four volume "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". What a brutal war. I just can't understand why the northern states refused to let the South go in peace. The war was so costly in lives and material and the war bears much responsibility for the big government problems we face stil today.
I wholeheartedly agree. The war should have never been fought, shows how powerful people/government can influence folks.
Hank Jr. (If the south would have won we would have it made) he's right. I can guarantee the government wouldn't to so big and out of control.
The United States had already fought off the French and English and beat back the natives they were not about to let the Southern States start another country which could have allied with any number of other country's and attempted to over throw the US. The North knew the South did not have the resources or man power to sustain a war the time was right to stop it when they did. Giving the South time to amass an army maybe even a foreign aided army was not in there best interests.
As far as the South being any less corrupt than Washington that is a joke if the politicians in Louisiana were any more crooked they'd have to be screwed in the ground when they died. They do any and everything they want to do now right under the watch of the US government giving them full power would not help the people I can assure you.
Used to find them in the fields. It's like Jim said though they don't plow fields anymore. Have not found any in a few years.
There didn't used to as much competition out looking for points as there is these days either. Finding arrowheads shifted from hobby collectors to commodity dealers to some degree. The internet contributes to that too. You can find dozens of artifact dealers who buy old collections at auctions and sell them by the piece. Their property, they can do as they please, I just hate to see it happen. Once some folks started collecting by using bank accounts to buy them and not using boot leather to find points on their own, the demand went higher and so did prices. I have displayed some of my points and artifacts at artifact shows many times, and without fail, somebody approaches me offering money for my nice, rare, and older points. I consider them the reward for having spent the time looking for them. I can make money any day, why would I give up points that I cherish which bring great memories for cash that anybody can make? Just how I see it.
Of course, once I'm gone, who knows what will become of them? It won't matter to me by then anyway I guess.
One guy I used to arrowhead hunt with would sell his finds almost immediately once he got home. I stopped prospecting new fields with him because he'd visit the ones we found on his own without me or permission to go there. When I would return to places I used to look, my old footprints used to be the only ones in the field. That guy would take others with him to look when I wasn't there and the next time I'd go back, there would be more footprints than points, pottery shards, & chips. I quit hunting with him to save my sanity more than anything. All those fields are so picked over these days, they're barely worth looking.
Jim
Quote from: Cut N Run on March 03, 2019, 11:24:56 AM
There didn't used to as much competition out looking for points as there is these days either. Finding arrowheads shifted from hobby collectors to commodity dealers to some degree. The internet contributes to that too. You can find dozens of artifact dealers who buy old collections at auctions and sell them by the piece. Their property, they can do as they please, I just hate to see it happen. Once some folks started collecting by using bank accounts to buy them and not using boot leather to find points on their own, the demand went higher and so did prices. I have displayed some of my points and artifacts at artifact shows many times, and without fail, somebody approaches me offering money for my nice, rare, and older points. I consider them the reward for having spent the time looking for them. I can make money any day, why would I give up points that I cherish which bring great memories for cash that anybody can make? Just how I see it.
Of course, once I'm gone, who knows what will become of them? It won't matter to me by then anyway I guess.
One guy I used to arrowhead hunt with would sell his finds almost immediately once he got home. I stopped prospecting new fields with him because he'd visit the ones we found on his own without me or permission to go there. When I would return to places I used to look, my old footprints used to be the only ones in the field. That guy would take others with him to look when I wasn't there and the next time I'd go back, there would be more footprints than points, pottery shards, & chips. I quit hunting with him to save my sanity more than anything. All those fields are so picked over these days, they're barely worth looking.
Jim
Artifact hunter here when not chasing gobblers. Enjoyed reading your thread!
Central FLA
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Nice points guys. I love to walk for arrowheads. I look in the fields around my farm once the ground gets worked. I can remember when I was a kid and those fields were being put to grade. There were 5 foot cuts in some places. My uncle had a huge collection as he cleared and graded a lot of the ground in that area. Still some to be found and I'll check out some spots before long.
I would love to find the civil war stuff. The CSA buckle is awesome. I've only see stuff like that at a battlefield museum.
I have a bunch of arrowheads I found in NM and a lot of pottery, here's a partial bowl I found. I glued some of it back together. I'm in Fl now and never find any artifacts here.
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I've been a relic hunter since I was 5/6 years old. I like Native American artifacts the best . Here is small collection of items I've found over the years. All in North Carolina. I was fortunate to have had a grandfather that drug me along his rural travels. BTH will post pics shortly. Cut and Run is on the money in reference to no plow/till farming practices.
I have I think what looks like a axe head from stone,but I don't know anything about artifacts and maybe its just a flat piece of rock. It was found in a field. If i could post pictures i would. Im sure somebody on here would know.
Found some points once but those days are long gone since they not making them anymore, no till farming and best spots are covered in homes or heavily posted don't find many anymore in our area.
Quote from: Southerngobbler on April 27, 2019, 10:13:57 PM
I have a bunch of arrowheads I found in NM and a lot of pottery, here's a partial bowl I found. I glued some of it back together. I'm in Fl now and never find any artifacts here.
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You ever end up getting into any points down here?
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