I’ve got a brother in law in Illinois who does it every spring. He has quite the collection. He’s also a Deer Shed Hunter. Like rock hunting on da beach, it hurts my neck too much !!!

I've never had the pleasure, but I understand usin' your tractor could be another way [i.e. easier picking at this level].

My mom used to drag my sister and me out to farm fields to do this when we were kids. She had a friend from Wisconsin who got her hooked on it and that friend had an impressive collection. But I would have rather been playing baseball. Never got into it as an adult.

We used to find the odd one priming tobacco in the sandy loam fields of southwestern Ontario. A local fellah down there would walk the ploughed fields in the spring after the frost heaving would thaw.

HELLO ALL BEEN HUNTING ARROWHEADS FOR 30 YEARS I LOVE DOING IT

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HELLO ALL BEEN HUNTING ARROWHEADS FOR 30 YEARS I LOVE DOING IT

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I have a pretty good collection ........ never bought a single one.  The fun is in finding them.  I've hardly built a golf course that I did not find some.  I guess my year in Viet Nam as a combat engineer looking for land mines (IEDs) on roads and trails honed my skill for finding objects that look like they don't belong there.  I'm amazed at the number of indigenous people who much have been in North America for there to be so many in just about every place you can imagine.  Most I think are around 10,000 years old.  

The Tuscarora were originally in North Carolina and moved north eventually into southern Ontario where they were admitted as the sixth nation of the Iroquois five nations confederacy. I worked with some fellas from the Six Nations Reserve.

“ Tuscarora moved northward, having been admitted into the Iroquois Confederacy as the sixth nation. Many Tuscarora supported the revolutionaries in the American Revolution; those who favoured the British were granted lands on Grand River reservation, in Ontario.”

Notables from there are Jay Silverheels (Tonto) , Tom Longboat (Olympic marathon runner), and Robbie Robertson of The Band. 

Me Son dose that...

my step moms brother did that for nearly 50 years,, he started right after he got out of the navy in 46. he had stacks and stacks of boxes of arrow heads ,, mallets,, spear heads,, and dozens of deep picture frames he made to mount the arrow heads in to display...
i think he gave them to the science center before he died,, and a few to friends and nephews. it was a massive collection.
he never married and lived with his mom ,, and they had a drive along camper and traveled all over the US looking for antiques and arrow heads for years . their entire home was furnished with antiques ,, 2 floors worth.

I randomly found a few hunting with my dad in Texas back in the day. I have one that he found hanging from the rear view mirror in my truck today.

I’ve spent A LOT of time exploring, digging, scratching around up here in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and never come across a one. They had to have them…I guess they’re just covered up by 140 years of fallen leaves, pine needles, dirt, moss, mold 2-3 feet deep.

Lots of the areas where there were known and prominent Indian villages back when, are covered up by apartments and parking lots, and freeways now.

'round here it's prehistoric shark teeth.

https://thebaynet.com/calvert-cliffs-yield-prehistoric-treasure-megalodon-teeth-unveiled-at-calvert-marine-museum/

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I randomly found a few hunting with my dad in Texas back in the day. I have one that he found hanging from the rear view mirror in my truck today.

I’ve spent A LOT of time exploring, digging, scratching around up here in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and never come across a one. They had to have them…I guess they’re just covered up by 140 years of fallen leaves, pine needles, dirt, moss, mold 2-3 feet deep.

Lots of the areas where there were known and prominent Indian villages back when, are covered up by apartments and parking lots, and freeways now.

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You are right .....many are buried deep under to the soil.  Excavating for a pond beside a creek a number of years ago near Nashville, we found a bunch of them at least three and four feet under the soil.  Over the years, the creek would flood and deposit silt in the flood plain.  Around here, plowed farm fields are a good place to look ..... especially after a good rain.

Wonder where the best place to look around here is, Johnny?

Creeks, riverbeds? I’ve spent a lot of time chasing coal, and gold in both places…but never come across any arrowheads.

Where to look?

There were a ton of tribes up here up until the 1880’s. The PNW was about the last area to have real Native American Indians still living in the wild before being rounded up and forced onto reservations.

I found the forgotten/lost grave of an old Indian medicine man named “Doctor Jack” that the state had been searching for for decades…but I can’t find any arrowheads.

Some general philosophy about finding ancient lost things. If you are lucky enough to stumble onto these things. Write down on a piece of paper when and where you found it, and keep that information with the item. When that information gets separated from the thing..what may be a thousand year old story just dies.

my cousin was plowing the field up here next to my house one year and stopped to take a break, ,looked down and saw a smooth oblong rock. threw it on the tractor and finished up.... got back to the house and washed it off,, and it had a groove cut around it....
come to find out it was was a mallet that one guy at the college dated back 2000 years weighed in at 3 1/2 pounds.  they talked him into sending it to raleigh ,,,

grew up on a farm--plowed ground after a rain is a good hunting spot

I thought it was an arrowhead, because of the shape.
And because I was maybe 9 years old.
My cousin Sandra made a grab for it, and it was STILL sharp enough to cut my hand!
Actually a spear head.
Found in the sandy shore of Lake Koshkonong, at Gramma Gregory's.
And I'm guessing that, once the Europeans came along, willing to trade metal heads for furs, flint spear tips were too much trouble to make. So, pre 1600's.

Of all the summers growing up that I stayed with my grandparents at their farm in Augusta County, Virginia, I never did find any arrowheads, whether playing on the edge of the garden, or helping with clearing out rocks in the rows, picking vegetables, etc.

A year or so after I moved to WV, my grandmother sent me a letter, with a note and an arrowhead she had found in the garden. I guess grandaddy had tilled the garden with the tractor enough that year to bring one up. 

I have found some fossil impressions of several brachiopods with a few fossilized shells and pieces on/in a rock out behind my house some years ago. Still walk occasionally and check the outcroppings of rocks and shale along the base of the hillside for other fossil impressions or fossils, still holding out hope to find a trilobite one day, maybe. 
 

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Wonder where the best place to look around here is, Johnny?

Creeks, riverbeds? I’ve spent a lot of time chasing coal, and gold in both places…but never come across any arrowheads.

Where to look?

There were a ton of tribes up here up until the 1880’s. The PNW was about the last area to have real Native American Indians still living in the wild before being rounded up and forced onto reservations.

I found the forgotten/lost grave of an old Indian medicine man named “Doctor Jack” that the state had been searching for for decades…but I can’t find any arrowheads.

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Dwo ..... the places to look are places that the the Native Americans would have set up camp sites ...... near water, but out of areas that might be prone to flooding.  Higher areas adjacent to creeks or other water bodies.  There have been huge number of point discovered along the Ohio River right along the edge, actually going out into the water.  Some hunters put shovels full of rock and dirt into a box with a screen on the bottom and sift for points.  You can find examples on Youtube.

Basically the points you are finding are not from the inhabitants a few hundred years ago, but those that were here as many as 10,000 years ago, so being near, say example a Pueblo dwelling site in a western state, may not be better than a site no where near more modern villages.

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I thought it was an arrowhead, because of the shape.
And because I was maybe 9 years old.
My cousin Sandra made a grab for it, and it was STILL sharp enough to cut my hand!
Actually a spear head.
Found in the sandy shore of Lake Koshkonong, at Gramma Gregory's.
And I'm guessing that, once the Europeans came along, willing to trade metal heads for furs, flint spear tips were too much trouble to make. So, pre 1600's.

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Most or many of the "arrowheads" that we find were probably not on the tip of an arrow, but possibly a spear or other implement.  Many were knives, although they do not look like what we call knives.

This, re. picking "sheds" in Southern Sask., popped up on my Facebook page just now.  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2377677389405331&set=pcb.2377684859404584