Ancient Hunters
 

Not a double, but can you imagine hunting with this? This spear point was found on our farm in the early 1950's before I was born(1954), when they were plowing the fields. I am taking it to be evaluated by an archeologist at the mound builders museum in Moundsville, Wv.
Hmm, wonder what the weight of the spear was?

The Damascus Steel of spear points. The maker's work was highly sought after in his day.

That is a nice piece of craftsmanship.

that was a mighty nice find...and the maker of this point was very talented..would not be surprized if this belonged to a chief and possible it was used in cermonial rituals... when you get it looked over by the experts please let us know what they say... charlie

very nice that one does have nice "grain" and suvived in great shape


- we used to find arrow heads alot as kids (lived in an area where Gen Sullivan destroyed a Seneca village)- we gave them away because we found them alot and then - suddenly - the roads got paved and the farm fields turned to houses - no more to be found

all I have is a stone knife blade (about the size of your spear point- I found in one of my hunting spots about 10 years ago,

i figure the last time it had been held was when some Seneca boy asked to borrow his dad's knife and the last words said over it was "here, but don't lose it"

:rotf:

amazing!

good storey on that knife... i too have found several arrow heads over the years i too have given them away except for what i call a indian axe..looks just like a single bit axe...but not as near as nice as this spear point.... charlie

That's a nice point. being that size it must be for a lance.

It must be a Parker spearpoint, because I can see the beautiful case colors.....i have a similar point, but I had to buy mine. I did find a corn grinding pestle on our farm here in upstate NY. Plowed it up like your point was found.

it looks like a spear point that would be called clovis in design. have it look at by a archeologist, it may be thousands of years old and very special.

That's a beautiful point. Love the coloration.

I don't believe the Clovis points had the lashing flutes at the rear of the point.

I've always got my eye on the ground when walking in a plowed field and have found a few decent rocks over the years but nothing half that good.

When I was the Ranger on a Boy Scout Camp I could hunt anywhere on the place. There was one long point that stuck out into the lake where you could shoot a couple mallard occasionally if you didn't hunt it too long. The point was also where our Order of the Arrow ceremonial grounds were. I was hunting on the point with a friend one morning and he found an arrowhead literally in my boot tracks. I had to trade him a box of shells to get it away from him, had it silver mounted and wear it to this day on my OA bead totem.

The other crazy one was a real nice nutting stone I found out goose hunting in Ontario. We'd shot into a bunch and killed several, I'd picked up one with my second barrel pretty far out. I walked to get it and it's head was literally laying on the stone.


DLH

good storey destrey...may you find a few more... charlie