Over 50 years of looking

[snuffy]

I've hunted artifacts over 50 years. I always check this forum out to see finds from other areas.These photos are the best of what I've found. Many,many,many hours of hunting.














Thanks for looking.

snuffy

[arappaho]

Well Welcome to the Board, Snuffy!
Thanks for posting some of your finds. The points in that second
pic are fine! Especially like the bottom two. What do you call them?
Those bottom two are sweet!!!
And the bottom broken one in the first frame, with the white stripe
down the middle, I would love to see a close-up of that.

Where are you from and what area would say most of these points
come from.
I know you've covered some ground.

Joe

[snuffy]

I found a majority of them on our old home place. I am in central southeast Texas. I think most of these are Perdiz points,1000-500 bp.The upper group of dart points I'm not sure of.The point you are talking about has an interesting story. I was driving my tractor through a small creek and saw half of it laying there. About a year later,I was driving my truck through the same area and found the other half. The blade was on a river bank with a quarter inch of the edge sticking out of the ground.I kicked it ,thought it was an old can or something,it flew out. Would have never lived over it if I had broken it.

snuffy

[di66er]

Thanks for showing us the fine points Snuffy, really interesting!

[rickb29212]

Those points look really nice. Thanks for sharing the photos with us. Rick B

[arappaho]

I was wondering if you found both halves of those broken ones
the same day, or years apart. I've got several that I have found the
other half to years later. If you are able to keep going back to the
same area to hunt, you want to keep all your broken ones for that
very reason.
Can't say much about that little blade without holding it in my hand.
It's beautiful, Big, and unique. I don't question it's authenticity. That
would do as a Find of a Lifetime.

We don't have arrowheads like yours here in NC. The ones you've
got are killer looking!

Feel free to post some more pics when you get a round to it. The
stranger the rock the better for most of us here. ;D

Thanks, Joe

[arappaho]

Well, snuffy, I've been thinking about that big blade of yours.
First of all, it's SO THIN! That's a beautifully flaked piece of rock!

And what is the rock? Alibates? Something local?
Have you found a type name for it?
I'm guessing it has to be Paleo, but it has a unique shape, unlike any
of the 20 or so named Paleo point styles you have in Texas. And I
can't really see a flute on it at all, but the bottom appears to be
finished. What do you think? Do you think it is a finished point or a
blank or preform? Clovis preform? Dalton preform?
And that brings me to my main question and what's been on my mind
about that blade. Many times those type of blades are buried in a
cache with other pieces of the same nature to be retrieved later.
And sometimes this cache of blades was packed in a ball of clay.
I'm just wondering if you have done any digging in the area you
found that blade at? If the blade was working it's way out of the
clay when you found it, there may be a small bundle of them just
a few more inches under the surface. It's a long shot, but if you
haven't done any poking around beneath the surface of the ground
in that area, you may want to check it out. If you don't see
anything in the first foot or two, you probably won't need to go
any further. It's just a little strange that you would find that one
isolated perfect big blade out there all by itself, and no other types
like it around.

I'd be interested in hearing what you've found out about the piece
since finding it.

Thanks and Happy Hunting,
Joe

[snuffy]

Joe,the flint,or chert it is made of is not native to this area.I think its similar to what is found over a hundred miles northwest of us. I didnt dig around, just looked a couple of minutes and found a perfect bird point a few feet away. Me and my dad were walking checking our lines in the river. Wouldnt remember where it was even if I could go back there.Just a pleasant surprise find. The bottom edge has no fluting and is finely chipped,as all the edges are.

snuffy

[mollala]

Very nice finds.