INFORMATIONAL! How To Locate Ancient Native American Campsites! - Arrowhead Hunting
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- The question we are asked most is “how do you know where to dig” for arrowheads. In this video we try to answer that question.
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FYI: I have no time nor patience for know it all SJW types who arbitrarily decide what we are doing is wrong. So instead of arguing my/our point I will just block these folks. After all it's our channel, not theirs.
I guess that makes it right then!
@@painfulsilence316 Nothing wrong about it at all.
Artifacts are literally everywhere.
Everyone is free to enjoy them and not just institutions who catalog and shove them in drawers and back rooms.
@@painfulsilence316 oh shit lighten up. These fellers are saving these artifacts from being broke to pieces by farm emplement. Lord forbid he teaches a youngen to go out looking for arrowheads. I hope u were just joking
God bless u sir 🫡. I am half Cherokee and 1/8th Shawnee and I applaud what you guys are doing. You are saving these artifacts from being destroyed by plows and disc or even in the are your were digging there's a high chance they will bulldoze that to clear more pasture or land for crp fields. I have found over 800 points of course most are brokes but I have a spot on the highest ridge of the farm where I have found over 200 uniface blades and tools, it seems like the natives camped here every year there is a Buffalo trail near by where I have found a few old Buffalo bones. I believe the paleo lived here for a couple years. This site is on the highest point within 200 yards where 2 creeks meet, and if you look at a map from the late 1700s there was a third creek that met where the 2 join. I have found most driving a cultivating tractors plowing in row crops and surface hunt when In my spare time. I dug once and found an old beaver lake or quad and a what looks just like a Cumberland base but it is thick and is uniface I have never found one like it. I reckon it is a transitional piece "which I'm sure you are aware of the on going argument on transitional pieces most are devided they either believe or are 100pct against the idea" I would like to show you a picture sometime and get your thoughts on where I should dig. I haven't had any luck since that first dig. I got in to ground that has been plowed and bulldozed. There is a slight overhang just above the creek and it is level and 30 years of living here I have never seen it flood. If u could clear that dirt from the over gang and sift it I think i would find something. It's a lot of dirt and rock. I would guess 3 tri axle loads.
You are a petty dictator. You block people for disagreeing with you. How very mature.
My greatgrandpas farm had an area where native americans still came and camped in 1905. It was said to be a hunting spot. When they cleared the wet swampy area near the camp it where the arrow/spear tips were found. It was assumed these were dumped there after they had guns. We nos know that's false. About 1/2 mile from the camp site was a 60' ridge with many steep washout cuts in it. We think the elderly, kids and females pushed the deer from the lower lands into these cuts where the braves with bows and spears would be waiting. Deer always goes to water when wounded, would go to the springs next to their camp to die. Easy dragging to the nearby camp.
Thanks for watching and for the great comment.
I appreciate the helpful advice on sifter tables as well as the rest of advice. There are amateur historical digs from the turn of the 18th Century (Late 1800's-1900's) here along river valleys and bluffs overlooking river basins that turned up extensive finds that are housed currently at the state college archaeological museum still today. As a budding amateur archaeological enthusiast, I appreciate finding you on TH-cam, and respect your experience. I look forward to studying the rest of your videos. Saves me a lot of wasted time and effort by listening to your advice and experience.
Thanks. We're glad you found us and I wish I had a resource like TH-cam when I was a young man. It would have helped me tremendously.
How have you made out digging? I’m from lycoming county area and have doing really well after finding a campsite area. I’ve found 27 whole arrowheads and tons of broken tools and points in the last two months.. grew up looking in fields but never digging. Trying to learn more about different tools.. I have found a lot of stone that at first glance look just like a rounded or broke rock. But have a feeling I’ve been digging up more tools than I have knowledge about… trying to do more and more research!
East central Indiana along duck Creek in Henry county, ive picked up dozens of arrow heads. Its on the same creek bottom that i deer hunted for years. I always thought that it was a hunting area for the indians long ago. I did have great success hunting there too. I always got a chill when i picked up a new arrow head.
We walk a cornfield behind my friends house in BFE central Indiana after the farmers till it for planting in spring & after they harvest in fall & we've found literally dozens & dozens of flakes,arrowheads & other artifacts, a couple "game balls" , one extraordinary axe head....especially after a good hard rain is the best time & we find something almost every time...tbh I had no idea how fascinating a regular old cornfield is until you walk it alot & realize what a dynamic, interesting place it is...I do recommend getting permission first
Love this channel! Used to follow the same pattern here in Texas also! Another way is to go to any of your lakes and wade in one to 4 feet of water off points next to small coves all around the lakes and you’ll find where they’ve been and find points there also! The native Americans were everywhere, more than you think they were.
Exactly. Yes sir. They were everywhere. Thanks for stopping by and for the comment.
On my property here in the Adirondacks in NY, I have a stream that borders my property and the banks are fairly steep in most places but there's a spot where it levels off, almost like an island. Two years ago, just digging around, not even really looking for much of anything, came across a really nice stone scraper and large flat stone that you can see the large grooves cut into it by scraping something on it. They were practically on top of each other. Where I live according to historians and archeologists I've read up on and listened to, Native Americans found this area too rugged and harsh to live in year round, whether it was Iroquois, Huron, or Abenaki but they did travel here to hunt and they made camps all along the streams and rivers here.
Great informative video. I’ve found most of my points in the creek on my property, but a very old Preform up on a flat away from the creek. This inspires me to dig some test holes. Thanks 👍🏼
Thanks and good luck!
Awesome find fellows. I was born and raised in the piedmont of N.C. surrounded by falls lake. I found a high point where 2 creeks met. And man i found so many artifacts. I found a quartz arrowhead in perfect condition abut a eighth of an inch long. And a piece of clay pottery on the inside stuck to it molded in the clay is a jet black hair about 3 foot long. And it isnt mine.
Wow!
I thoroughly enjoyed the Show... Thanks all!
Our pleasure!
I always tell folks when trying to locate sites… you may want to find Arrowheads but you’re not looking for arrowheads! You’re looking for flakes!
Exactly Jeff. Find the flakes then the arrowheads. Take care my friend.
If you find flakes in sand, dig.
@@HeartbreakerRelics Amazing. I know so many places full of flakes. Going back.
I find this intriguing. Any videos you guys can tag a link for on how to look for flakes and what flakes are ?
Flakes as in chips from the rock they are trying to shape?
Thanks for the helpful info Spike! It was interesting to watch y’all clear out that hedge . That privet looks so challenging , my first thought is that looks impossible . But y’all broke the process down making it easy to see how it’s done. Thanks for sharing , most would never take the time .
Our pleasure Ron. Always good to hear from you.
Thanks for the informative dig! Always enjoy your videos
Thanks.
Keep up the good work.i try and go as much as i can hopeing to get mu son and grandson into it
Been hunting points since I was about 14. I've never dug and sifted any dirt. Now that everything has gone to no till I may have to start. Lucky I live along the river and I already knew where to look from experience.
As always enjoyed watching thanks for sharing 👍
It is our pleasure. Thanks for watching
Good information. Bless you and yours.
Thanks and blessings on you as well.
Thanks for this video! It’s on my bucket list to find an arrow head or blade . I can’t wait until the Texas weather cools a bit.
I love to rock hunt so I’ve been to the Llano River , but can you tell me a specific place to go to find arrow heads around Austin ?
Can you tell me a bit about your organization, Heartbreaker Relics? I love the T shirt you had on . Going to have to get me one! 😊
Thanks. Check out our we site heartbreakerrelics.com/index1.html
You did good Spike, it was very informative, thank you!
Thanks Tim! Hope it was helpful!
Thanks for captioning
Great video! Always wondered about the adze, because I find a lot of them!
I love y’all’s adventures and even bought a t-shirt. I especially love how y’all thank God & Jesus when you find relics! My dad is building a sifter for me like the painted ones in this video. How long are the legs? I’m 5’9” and don’t want to bend way down- but it looks like the legs are 36” or even more. Please help! Thank you!
Thanks so much for you support. We do appreciate it. Here is a link to our video on our dirt sifters. Hopefully it helps.
Just found one at work today my boss started looking around and found one the whole crew started looking found some cool stuff he said to look for stone chips in washouts where water runs
This is great information, thank you for sharing it.
Glad it was helpful!
Man I hate privet hedge…. I’ve showed and explained this same thing to bunches of folks before. Some people get it and start finding points, while others can’t grasp it and are still in the dark…. Same thing with identifying artifacts, some people find lots of artifacts while others bring out all the “leaverites” and then want to argue with ya lol… Good vid Spike! 👍👍
Thanks! Always good to hear from you my friend.
Very cool indeed 😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Those little hand held saws do work good for cutting tree branches and smaller trees.
That's one of the best ideas Randy has had in a while lol. But he was the one chopping through the roots so he had more incentive to think of an easier way.
very helpful! great video, thx.
It is our pleasure. Good luck.
Wonderful dig.
Thanks!
Awesome Finds
Thanks 👍
How do I recognize a mound? Think I found one. I don't want to mess with but there's charcoal all over the top of it.
I gotta place if you want to come dig. Not far from a marker tree. Milner Ga
Guys you know Im drooling to metal detect that field with that pottery found!
Come on down!
@@HeartbreakerRelics don’t threaten me with a good time!!!!
@@GoneDiggin we are going to have to get yall down here next summer and Brandon too. That is if it doesn't rain like it did this summer. Our creeks stayed flooded all year. Either that or we gotta get up there. lol
@@HeartbreakerRelics either way the invitation is open!
DeWalt. Need I say more. I got the 20 vmax chainsaw! I'd recommend it. Also, have you ever went to the drop off and started from there? I think it would be easier to start at the edge and work in. Also easier to discard the dirt
You might not find them right at the edge, but maybe you will. 1000s of years of run off might have washed the banks back
And you wouldn't have to swift just scrap
We have started at the drop offs at times and it does pay off sometimes. We never dig right up to the edge and on this property and a couple others we never dig on the slope. Erosion is such a problem and we don't want the farmers to lose any more land to it.
I understand that
Great, but must the intro music be so danged loud I have to mute it?
Used to find all kinds of neat stuff while surveying land, especially right after the logging company cleared the woods, turned the topsoil over and after it rained. I set up my instrument once, was looking down and the nicest arrowhead was laying there, started looking around more and they were everywhere, like that was the spot where they manufactured them for the whole tribe. We also surveyed an old burial ground once. I miss land surveying sometimes.
Thanks for watching and for the great comment.
What about near a Spring? There's a Spring near or on the way into the camp down the hill and I was curious about that
Absolutely.
Thanks for the great informational video!! Nice tips to get newcomers started! ...
... but I'm curious, Spike... what brand of saws-all do you think the native Americans preferred, back in the day? 😄
I Always enjoy y'alls videos. Thanks for all the efforts made in producing quality videos for the family to enjoy!! 👊👍👊
Thanks! We hope this helps some folks. I think the ancient peoples probably used Cobalt saws lol. They were cheaper and easier to come by lol.
Thanks again. Comments like this make our day.
@@HeartbreakerRelics 😄😀 Well you must be a descendent somehow!-You handle that saw pretty well, and definitely have a deep appreciation for them and "relics" they left behind!👊
I would take a small chainsaw over that sawsall for as much brush as you are having to clear. Great informational video. I've just surface and creek hunted and detected myself, but would like to try digging someday.
Thanks for the tip. We are thing about getting us a small battery operated chainsaw when digging season comes back around. We got the sawsall for roots mostly.
You definitely need to detect that Spike. 1700s Baby! There's probably Spanish Silver there! Kool Video!
I know. I've been saying I wanted to get out there and try it but the arrowheads always come first.
@@HeartbreakerRelics I would definitely metal detect and look for arrowheads at the same time! I am addicted to both , so it's a hard call lol!
Did good Spike! Glad to see Mathew and Jonathan back diggin!
Thanks Will. It was good being back out there with them and Cory. Wish we had found more but that's the way it goes sometimes.
Great video bud!
Thanks Ben!
Don't forget to rake the hill side going down to the creek bottom.
Thanks.
Fantastic, so if I'm finding stuff on the surface in the brush and trees that probably means that land was once tilled and farmed and probably picked for points?
If most all my land that is flat but now brush and trees was once farmed and the farmers were interested in artifacts then all I would find would be ones they missed?
If I'm finding stuff on the surface out in the brush and trees is there any sense in digging?
Thanks buddy. I would try it Mike. You may end up like we did, digging dirt that has been picked over but at least you can eliminate that spot.
@@HeartbreakerRelics thanks
I have found a broken piont arrow head . White flint and a small cutting tool . Another small piece ,half moon shaped razor sharp on the round side . I have found a I call a camp cooking stone . On my land ,
I am sure its an ancent camp.
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Hey brother find someone in your area with a forestry mulcher and mulch all that privet and then you boys could go through and probe it and pin point the best spot to dig
Thanks for the suggestion.
@@HeartbreakerRelics love y’all’s videos good luck guys
Is it possible to find thease in Pennsylvania. I live in the mountains. I know down in like Bedford on the more flat land they find them. I meanbi live in a area that literally named after the natives.
Yes, It is definitely possible to find the in PA.
Great video Spike! I have a bunch of areas like this that we will try and dig some test holes.
Good luck!
I can tell your hands are bad like mine. I suggest you consider ditching that heavy vibrator sawzall for a good hatchet and/or machete.
We burned up the Sawzall. lol
I'm a lumbee Indian in Massachusetts and damn I would love to find arrow heads..
Go for it and best of luck!
I found excavation sights on the back of my parents property and could not figure out why , now I see , someone was searching for artifacts
So if the Native Americans didn't bury their tools/artifacts it was just perhaps buried by years of erosion itself hence is why it's good idea to dig in any given spot where they lived near water sources !!!
That's right. They are buried by millennia of soil build up.
Arrahead huntin with our host Jerry Clower. lol jk
Knock 'eem out John! One of us got to have some relief! lol We country as a brown egg.
@@HeartbreakerRelics omg lol. Just shoot up in here amongst us!
@@HeartbreakerRelics If yall ever want to go find some points let me know. I'm in sw Louisiana. I'm a knapper too.
@@askforcorn awesome. We would love to get on some SW Louisiana points sometime. We'll definitely keep you in mind.
Mathew, “ why we showing these Yankees or secret”?
What is St Tammany @ 10:48 ? Are you referring to St Tammany Parish in Louisiana? I live there near the Abita River. 🏹
St. Tammany is the name of a particular kind of arrowhead and it is named after St. Tammany parish.
@@HeartbreakerRelics Thanks, I’ll be on the lookout for one. Really enjoying your channel. Greetings from Covington, La⚜️
How is this different from grave robbing
Because there are no graves! Idiot!
Skip to 7 min mark.
Wonder how many natives would have occupied that area? Approximately. Thank you.
There's no way to tell. This is a multicultural site and may have gone through long periods with no occupation then periods with large numbers.
Artifacts are where they are found.
Ever hunted Europe.
No we haven't.
In the last 16,000 years there isn't one square inch in America native Americans didn't live. Creeks and rivers sometimes move 10's of miles in a century. Every hill and holler have been overturned many many times since the last Ice-age. if you can identify a Native American campsite, it's surely post Mississippian period. You're only finding them on high ground because it's the least eroded. Caves and rock bluffs are the only exception to the rule.. Even then there's no telling if they weren't covered in the past.
I will not tell anyone where the places I have seen or even allow anyone to dig up any Native American camp sites.
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Well just take your tired old a$$ somewhere else then!
SHEW WEE!!? OLE DUDE A JAW FLAPPER AND A HALF!!?/. LIL MORE DIGGIN A LIL LESS JAW FLAPPIN!!? IS IT COFFEE OR DIARRHEA OF THE JAW BONE!!?
146K people watched the video for the information and all you can say is shut up and show the points. Maybe this isn't the channel for you bud.
@roberthorn3587 👈🏻🤪😂🤣 there’s another one….trolls born every minute!! 🤣
What does SJW mean ? Tks.
Social Justice Warriors.
I agree, stop talking so much and get to working…
Digging for artifacts without a permit from the state hist. pres. office is a crime in most states. Stealing Indigenous artifacts is a violation of the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
On private land in this state it is legal so take your bleeding heart somewhere else and take the UN with you when you go.
@sasachiminesh1204 👈🏻🤪😂🤣 Genius alert!! 🤣😂
Thats the fattest tip i ever seen that wasnt veing projectiled w anything.
Numbnuts it's against the law to disturb any ancient sight it will get you in federal prison , and it's been that way for years
lol Talk about numbnuts! You don't have a clue what you're talking about. Do your research before you run your mouth.
@tomrobards7753 👈🏻🤪😂🤣 calling others numbnuts!! Like wiping before you poop….makes no sense!!!
Hi,I’m here to inform you that what you’re doing is actually illegal.you really should not post these videos because eventually you will get into trouble with the law if you are not an actual archeologist/anthropologist you will eventually get into trouble.
You are a dumbass! Nothing we are doing is against the law where we are.
@eotheewakan879 👈🏻🤪😂🤣 and yet another genius in our midst!! Attempting to sound so intelligent….but can’t speak intelligently on the subject matter!! Bless it!!
@@HeartbreakerRelics ok. Thats it!
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It’s not just about if it’s legal, but are you recording what you’re finding in a way that harvests all the information possible? If you’re just digging stuff out of the ground but not recording the location, the context in the ground to other artifacts, etc. then you’re just destroying history for giggles. The stuff you find is just turned into trinkets and junk if it can’t be tied to any kind of context. But if you are actually recording stuff so people can use it for research and add to what we know about the past then I don’t really have a problem with that. We wouldn’t know anything about the past if people just ripped stuff out of the ground for fun and didn’t try to actually understand it.
By the way the fbi has a special unit that investigates “pot hunters” and “arrow head hunters”.As a Native American I would suggest learning to make your own arrowheads,bows,spears etc.,it’s much better for you and much more fun than doing what you are doing
By the way I would suggest you go bite a fat hog in the a**. Do you really think we care about what you think. We're not doing anything morally, ethically or legally wrong. If you had any sense you would realize we are saving artifacts that will be destroy by development?
The FBI is coming for us? Lol..🤣
@@HeartbreakerRelics try seeing things from other perspectives. They were respectful and you lash out like a small child. If you really thought you weren't doing something wrong; why would you respond like this?
@@hiddenpotentialproject806👈🏻🤪😂🤣 Bless it!! 🤣🤪
My family is from Mitchell County NC. Every year that my grandfather tilled his Garden we would find arrowheads. There was no water source close by. I ran across another person in the area that did the same thing. The arrowheads were large heavy opaque white stone. Some smaller flint arrowheads. I think my cousin kept them. We wondered how old they were. Also there was a mound in the front yard under a tree. It looked like the perfect size and shape for a grave. It was out of place because the rest of the yard was level. My grandfather built that house himself and it had never had a dozer used to level the building spot.
you have great enthusiasm for relic hunting. its refreshing to see people enjoying looking for relics made century's and or millenniums before us. the rush you get from finding artifacts is clearly evident with you and the team.
You're right! We are thrilled with every find! Maybe that's because we went many years without finding a whole lot!
At the 13:30 minute mark there’s a huge awesome tree behind the guys with two huge branches that have grown straight out to the same side. Not sure if the Natives did that or not but when I see old, uniquely shaped trees, I often think, “the natives lived here!” Very cool informative video. I really enjoy watching you guys.
Thanks. These trees at the very oldest are maybe 100 to 150 years old. Native Americans were long gone from this area by then. Think older, much older.
Man I wish you could survey my farm. I have been hunting the creeks for the past seven years and found an unbelievable amount of artifacts. I can’t imagine what is actually on the land.
Where are you located?
This is great information.. I've also had success in the land features you're describing. How deep do you typically dig your test holes?
Thanks. We dig as deep as we're finding debitage.
Treasure hunting in Florida? See if you can locate this one. Here ya go page 79 of Francis Parkmans "Pioneers of France in the New World" 1865 "During the winter, Indians from the neighborhood of cape Canaveral brought to the fort two Spaniards, wrecked fifteen years before (1550) on the southwestern extremity of the peninsula." "They told of the King of Calos, on whose domains they had been wrecked, a chief mighty in stature and in power. In one of his villages was a pit, six feet deep and as wide as a hogshead, filled with the treasure gathered from Spanish wrecks on adjacent reefs and keys." Good Hunting!
wow! Thanks!
My husband inherited his family home and property once his Uncle passed. 34 acres of land. We have creeks on all 3 sides of the property, in Western North Carolina. The state came in last year and fixed the creek on the property beside ours and made a helluva mess on our side. But, we have been looking around on Google maps trying to find anything that may look like Native American in origin. So far, I found an old road and, what I believe to be foundation stones for a bridge. Like, who knows how old this stuff is, the family owned the property since the 1930s, there is the original family home still standing and before his Uncle passed he told us there had been 2 generations of another family living in it previously, and there is no record of the home in the County records, no where, and it makes me wonder if there WAS something here that nobody wanted anyone to know about. 🤔
Idk, I wanted to ask though, do you think we have a good area to look??
Think back farther, thousands of years farther. Forget about recent history. Plus there are no mysteries. Look for the features I talked about in the video and then look for the debitage. It will lead you to the artifacts.
There are SO many different levels of digging and ways of going about it. The best possible scenarios are where you're actually digging occupation layers or huts etc middens of course as well but most don't have access to middens to be able and dig them. Getting down deep enough/to the correct layer of the occupation at a given site is the best as nothing is disturbed or shifted or moved from it's context. You'll be surprised how many features you'll find when digging occupation zones. Features as in areas of earth manipulated by man, recessed areas and large massive stones placed in pits etc etc. You can go as deep as you want with instructional advice for digging. Experience = knowledge. Going about it as proper as possible is highly recommended.
Dig to the hard pan then go an extra foot if possible. I have found some nice blades beneath the hard pan but it depends on your soil type and location whether level or on a bank. I dug on a level field and the top soil on this farm is 4ft on average. I dug 5ft deep and 6-8" below the hard pan.. every single point was 14" from the surface. After 2ft I wasn't even finding flakes. I found a beautiful gorget 3 holes banded slate and it had an old break rite in the center of the 3rd hole. That one still makes me sick. I'm just glad it was an old break
Thanks a million for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! I've ask a native woman that lives on the Paiute reservation where to look and she told me she finds broken pottery ect behind here house not fare from a spring... and I was more than welcome to dig around in her back yard not fare from a spring. So I guess I'll start there👌.. thank a million!
It is our pleasure. Hope it helps and good luck in your digging.
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Nice vid Spike!! Good to see Matt and J back out on the hunt!! I always enjoy your instructional videos no matter the topic!! 👍🏻😜
Thanks Mike! It was good to be back out there with those guys. We're going to try to do more of these types of videos on our off weeks. We have plenty of interesting ideas with some good information. It's just getting out there to do the videoing that's the problem. See yall in the morning!
-you guys do a great job as well, Mike! Love your enthusiasm & passion for recovering the past!
@@coffeehunter8742 We appreciate you my friend!! 👍🏻
Enjoyed this informative video. Look forward to seeing more in the future. Thanks
How do you go about getting permission to dig a site? Do yall pay a fee of any kind to the landowner? Here in West Tn it's hard to find fields that are disc'd...most everyone does no-till crops now a days. I'm curious as to how to start gettin permission and such. Appreciate yall and all the knowledge you guys share.
All of my finds are creek finds. Never gotten to walk a disc'd field. Thank yall!
Thanks for watching and for the question. Many of our sites or the sites we are invited to hunt are on family land. Those permissions aren't hard to get. In other cases we just ask the landowners and promise to leave their property looking as good or better than when we came. Good luck.
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You certainly gave correct and excellent advice. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks.
Wow you boys do some work! As a SapaNi Yesah Indian I find it fascinating and wonderful. Is there any way I can get my hands on any pieces ? Would love to buy or trade ! Thanks a lot be safe
Thanks but we do not sell anything.
Figure it would tell it where a good spot to camp would be
Yep.
I live in Ontario, Canada, and can see how this procedure could work here too. But, do you suppose that water sources that too are transportation sources, aka by canoe or umiak, might be better than little creeks. Of course streams can shrink over time, due to man's maneuvers!
All water sources hold artifacts. It's just figuring out a method to get to them and get them out.
Man,I wish I had time to sift, that'd be so much fun, happy yall get to do it though!
We hope one day you get the time to experience it. Good luck.
I grew up in a small historical town in CT which was one of the 1st founded. I had a friend growing up who lived in a 250 yr old house and had a dirt/mid bottom basement. Every yr a few times a yr it would flood and then dry out, revealing to the surface hundreds of ancient Native American artifacts. Arrow heads of all different minerals,shapes and sizes. Hand tools of all kinds i even found a planer stone. He woind up selling the.house yrs later and had it full excavated before selling the house. They found one of the most extensive collections of ancient native american artifacts ever found in the state/region. It was something like 8-10k individual artifacts! A historical records search found that the original owner of the house worked for building the 1st railroads in the northeast usa back in the 1800s. He had amassed all these along his excavations for laying tracks. It was truly incredible and so exciting every time it rained hard or snowed hard we all could wait to go down in the basement and see what washed up, i was like a kid on xmas morning! The basement also had some kind of elemental/criptid/ critter that protected it. It was hard to describe but it wasn't something from this realm so to speak. A small cat size like ark blob you'd occasionally see skipping around when yoi went down there im this 1 room basement. They simply called him, the "critter" lol plus the house was haunted(by friendly like spirits)..
Wow! What a great story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Funny thing. I also grew up in CT and dated a girl for a while that lived in the only house left standing for miles around during the Revolutionary War. The Brits burned every building around except for that one because it was being used as a hospital. It was haunted too. The fireplace hearth had the initials of wounded or dying soldiers that they had scraped into it as they lay by the fireplace. She said they found tons of Indian artifacts in the yard as well. I think the town was Trumbull.
@@HeartbreakerRelics absolutely! Glad to share with the community and you all. I found out yrs and yrs later that the new owners wound up selling the collection of basement native American artifacts (in its entirety) to an avid and well know collector. I'm not sure who but I know that the whole lot of artifacts sold for 10s of thousands of $$'s. I still have a few awesome arrow heads somewhere in my storage I keep all the yrs from there. Some of the most pristine subjects you'll ever find. Seemed like they were crafted yesterday. Makes sense now why it all sold for big bucks. I also lived in a 250+ yr old haunted barn up in the Berkshire mountains of southwest Massachusetts when I was 17 yrs old. We found out that it was part of the underground railroad when we discovered a hidden stash room under the slate stone front walk way when heavy rains pryed loose one of the stones revealing a sizeable hidden underground room. It had some interesting artifacts in it too as I remember. It is on historical record as being an ancient native American trading post for all of the new England natives. Used to be the gathering place for the Hartford fiddlers club as well. VERY VERY OLD HISTORICALLY significant lands and very beautiful. And soooooo haunted!! I was driven outta there after 5 months of activity daily or nightly I should say. I almost died but luckily escaped with my life. Nvr returned there. It still exists but has been sold since. I always wanted to go artifact hunting in the back yard/fields and apple orchards. I bet there are significant historical finds on that property just waiting to be found. Oh well
@@lowandslow3939 that's awesome! I am familiar with Trumbull's revolutionary history. What a cool house! So much history in CT. it's fascinated me since my childhood. Therefore I've done lots of research and know history of alot of its towns and lands.
Hey Spike, when looking for a water source can it be something other than a creek? Like a natural spring coming from a hillside maybe 5ft wide or so? Or does it need to be a water source that would have fish. I have a high point in Wisconsin that is about a half-mile from a river but there are natural springs flowing all around the big hill that I have access to.
Absolutely! Springs are a great place to look. Also remember to think about where water may have been thousands of years ago. There were millions of beaver back then and they had almost every stream dammed up and the water would back up into the hollows that are now dry.
Cows in the fog. One of my favorite sights! Very informative Spike. I'm already thinking of some good places to hunt!
Thanks and good luck!
I gotta say my HBR Hoodie sure kept me warm past few days. I found a nice dig spot last weekend. Me and my cousin plan on hittin it this weekend and see what we can find.
Thanks my friend! We do so appreciate your support. Good luck to yall up there.
You are exactly right. Ive been hunting for 25 years hard, and everybody asks me how i know where to look and the best and only advice i have ever given, is the most important. Find the highest, flattest, land CLOSEST to the creek, and you will find the points. Im in henry county alabama
We had the pleasure of hunting Henry Co, Alabama once or twice. Great artifacts over there.
Do you dig and sift or surface hunt or both? I’m newish to it only 1.5 years. Any other tips?
I've been looking for arrowheads all my life. I'm glad they're others out there who do the same thing. I guess I'm not crazy after all!
Maybe we're all crazy lol. Thanks for stopping by and for the great comment.
@Heartbreaker Relics You are very welcomed. I live on Cape Cod, and there are many beaches and wetlands to find arrowheads and I'm always searching. Glad you are too!
@@HeartbreakerRelics where are youll located
Really interesting video...Is there any way to date these arrowheads? Also, when did the use of stone stop? 1700's ? Or was it still in use later? I could never understand why the Copper Culture never progressed to the use of bronze as in the rest of the world, but fizzled out, and the locals returned to using stone...
Thanks. These artifact types have been dated using carbon dating of organic material found in the strata they were found in. Stone tools were made all the way up to the end of the nineteenth century although to a lesser and lesser degree. Copper was never smelted in the new world, only cold worked. I'm with you. I never understood why it didn't advance any further. I have heard that the quality of copper veins in the Great Lakes region was so high there wasn't a need to try to refine it.
I love your videos. But I have a question form your earlier videos you talk about a quartzite and I can’t understand what kind it is. It’s a milky white and beautiful when it’s cleaned up. Thank you gentlemen.
Thanks! We appreciate that! The only kind of quartzite we have down here is Tallahatta quartzite. The high grade stuff holds up really well especial in the water. The acidic soil down here wreaks havoc on the lower grade stuff and even the good stuff to a degree. It can be an absolutely beautiful material.
Just so you'll know. Diablo makes a 9" pruning blade for your reciprocating saw. Makes cutting those little branches a whole lot easier.
Thanks. We'll have to do that.
.Wow my friends, those are very old finds. Congratulations.
@coyote arrowheads,Glad to see you up and about on your channel also.This is one of my favorite channels also.Great ancient sites.
I've seen fields where you could still see where campfires were. The soil would be black with ash and charred wood mixed.
That's so cool.
Watching a man use an electric battery powered saw to cut on a tree.... at a site where ancient man made and used stone drills. O how the times have changed.
Believe me the juxtaposition did not escape us either. lol