My grandsons 7/9 love your channel. Especially the video with the spirit Indian/Native American after you. They cackled on that one...had to replay it several times for them. Just got started looking for arrowheads/artifacts. Took them yesterday after a 4 foot swell from a 3 inch rain had subsided to about 14 inches depth. All we found on the dry sand/gravel bar were "Indian Beads" (fossils) but everything is a treasure to them...and it gets them into the woods. Going back in a day or two after the flow drops another foot so I/we can really look at the rock bars. Yesterday revealed a ton of freshly rolled, clean rock in the bottom of the creek that - before the rain - was all mossy and hard to discern. Going to try and focus adjacent to flat ground BUT with move to a section directly adjacent to both the flat on one side and the steep / pointed ridges that overlook the creek and have eroded over hundreds of years...right onto the creek bed...on the opposite side. I picture them camping on those ridges, too, as they empty out onto flat ground. Thanks! Rory
as an old bow hunter my take on creek arrowheads is that hunters would travel the creek bottoms to get a shot at browsing deer up on the flats and anywhere up to a hundred yards from said creek would be where arrows would land if the deer was missed and also a wounded deer if it got away would head for water in its injured condition and possibly die in the creek. It would also be a good place to process a successful kill.
I found a few points at a deer crossing I was hunting on a small creek in East Texas. I'm sure those Indians hunted creek crossings too and probably missed like I have as well! I have some missing arrows still out there in the East Texas woods and have found a few arrows lost by other hunters!
Archeologists consensus is natives never hunted near or around their water source for obvious reasons. Most artifacts found in creek beds are most likely from erosion of the flats around them.
That was very interesting! You have a good eye for finding that stuff! One additional factor that's going on here is that surface runoff is vastly greater in post-settlement times than it was in pre-settlement times. That's because the runoff from tilled fields and even from cleared forests is enormously greater than it was when those places were still in their natural states. Typical rivers and creeks in post-settlement times have cut much deeper into their beds than had been the case in the distant past, and there is also far greater bank erosion going on. That's the result of high-flow events occurring far more frequently and in greater volume than was typical in pre-settlement times. My previous career involved examining soils within excavations for construction in all sorts of locations, and when excavations are done within floodplains and even just the bottoms of broad, gently-sloped valleys, there's usually clear evidence of the changes in erosion and/or deposition that have taken place in post-settlement times as compared to what was happening earlier. Erosion of the banks and bottoms of creek channels always took place, and it followed the same "rules" as what we see today, but the volume of soil that is being moved by streams is many times greater in modern times than it ever was in the distant past.
in the 70's, I found an Indian spearhead, arrowheads, n a stone that had a rabbit carved into it. The ppl who owned the land were digging up an area with machinery to make a tank for cattle. In an another area found fossil clams look like hearts the size of baseballs. Close to Fredericksburg, Tx
I knew it was TX Hill Country before I read where you were from. Canyon Lake, 1971-72, found lots of those clams, and fossilized boar tusks. Plus you said, "Tank".
Most of “ Texas and Louisiana were under sea water 💦 at one time. This could be as far north as the outskirts of DFW too. In Rockwall Texas, with their famous 7 story wall .. they (archeologists) have dug down to find the bottom of that wall to find clams and seawater crustaceans which were still rubbery, well-preserved and attached to that sea wall. There is a video (audio) on TH-cam that goes into great detail on this interesting masonry and limestone Rockwall structure. Particles of the mortar used contain bits and fragments of a rare earth metal element that are today found in metallurgical components that make up the blades found in today’s fighter jet engines. ( ! ? ! ) So, whoever constructed this wall-platform knew something about metallurgy and how the buried Rockwall was used in some sort of air-jet-transportation platform. IE, the Rockwall structure has electrical qualities to it with other electrical power equipment operating nearby. Watch the video. It’s eye opening. Ancient Texas excavations yield some very interesting history!
Knowing all this, I STILL watch you because of how enjoyable your demeanor is on camera. Love the creek exploration videos you've been doing a bit more than "THE digging spot" videos. Thanks for posting!
Honestly I felt like this video was just for my old artifacts hunting self , I walk a stream just like yours on my brother’s property I learned so much - the part about the gravel beds being constantly re worked by the water … that hit me ! There’s like seven gravel bars in his stream, and I have not thought to go back and look at them after several rains -I feel like such a goober !! Thanks for that tidbit Waters high down here in Arkansas too Emma Watson …. She don’t believe a word you say Clegg …. But she says Hey 👋
My old boss used to own property where natives would camp in the summers. He found literally thousands of arrowheads that were either broken or fragments that they discarded after they broke. He had buckets of them. His family owned it for 90+ years. In all those years he found 5 or 6 arrowheads that were fully intact. Unfortunately for him the waterfront property that his family had owned for 90+ years became incredibly valuable and his family that had all moved elsewhere wanted to sell it and he couldn’t afford to buy them out so he had to sell it. Now there are 10 mansions on the property and they brought in thousands of yards of fill to raise the land above the floodplain. All of that history is buried now. He didn’t end up getting much for his portion of the land. He probably would have preferred to sell it back to the tribe but they don’t have any money and couldn’t compete with the land developers that bought it.
My Dad and I use to hunt for arrowheads back in the 70 s in Dent County Missouri exactly how you are describing it in this video. lot s of fun can be back breaking. I have no idea where those arrowheads went he had a few large matchboxes full. It s a great hobby if you got a place to look.
There you are!! I was just hoping you didn't take the entire winter off there!! I recall many frigid wintry days during my four years at WVWC but then there were the nice breaks and Audra State Park with terrain and streams just yours there and 'hot' mid-winter days often well into the 60s! Jim C,
Great video! I grew up in Lorton/Woodbridge Va and would find cool artifacts along the Pohick east of the Railroad tracks. My Mom said she would find arrow heads all the time as a little girl and would throw them.
Thanks for explaining a bit on erosion and stream/river recovery of artifacts. Pretty cool finding points, blades, pottery and the like. Keep on filming. You have a great channel.
You explained something I wanted to know. I have a Civil War battle site near my home it was on a river. A friend of mine was boating down the river when he rounded the bend where the battle took place at the original bridge. He found five Minnie balls on a small shelf of rock where the water had washed away the soil allowing the bullets to fall on the shelf waiting for him to come along.
Scott: Just yesterday, I was wondering when you would publish another vid. I know, winter has been a little rough. Good to see you again, bud. Have a good one. Enjoyed it! We have had a couple big/hard rains this winter. I need to walk the two branches, crossing my place. Who knows what I will find. Good motivation video.
I live close to Floyds Fork creek in Bullitt Co, KY and i've hunted on gravel bars that look just like where you are. I find a lot of fossils (ancient small clams small marine life), but I've never found a point. I always surface hunt, maybe I should dig some. Good video, glad to see you're still out and about.
my situation may be a lot like yours, i live close to Baker's Fork creek in Southern ohio, close to Serpent Mound, & i have those gravel/sand bars too....i'm making a shaker now & am planning on sifting them....i've found 6 arrowheads & 2 scrapers on my property but now will try the creek...
One other thing I always looked for when I was younger was a rivulet in the bank wshing down from the level field above. These usually form in floods and heavy rain run offs over the years and sometimes they are full of good stuff like a fruitcake full of candied fruit.
I haven't found one in years. I'm in Greeneville TN. About two miles from my house they had a big dig going on right beside the river. They found a settlement.
I never thought about it but the natives making stone tools would have found older stone tools of a different style and some of them would have copied the older designs to see if they were better. You are the only person I’ve watched or read that mentioned this possibility.
👍 I can picture a Woodland period native picking up a fine Clovis point and feeling like he won the lottery. I wonder what did run through their minds about ages of different artifacts they found. That little arrow you found is an anomaly.
@@revengeoftheriddler I’m sure they knew it came from earlier people but no way to know how old. With no records, I figure 3 or 4 generations later, it was forgotten.
Great video and channel. You made a great point at the end. Expedient tools are common but often overlooked. Over the years I've learned At some of these sites the textbooks offer little help.
Subscribed. You will have great success with your content on TH-cam. I love your videos, its like im with you finding arrowheads to. Keep the content coming I promise you this channel is gonna blow up. Thanks for the hard work you put into this for us all to enjoy. You will be rewarded.
I am a bottle guy. Amazing how I think I have found all the bottles in a spot, and then, just like that, I find another. I love to go out after a big rain. You never know what rain will wash out or rinse off
I use to manage a ranch north of Austin and the of University of Texas had dug on the creek that ran through the ranch. We found probably a cigar box full of in the 3 years there. We take break once a to hunt for arrowheads.🇺🇸🤠
When we were really young we were taken on walks in local fields to look for arrowheads. Still have lots of what we found around.Sometimes I would find the occasional arrowhead in pristine condition like they were just made.My father would make them in his shop and drop them in the dirt and say lets look over here for some. Just figured this out after he passed away.Guess he thought it was better if we actually found some every time we went out.
I live in Pennsylvania near Tioga point and Spanish hill . The confluences in our area seem to be great places to find Artifacts . There is a confluence of Sugar creek and a no-named run in East Troy that gave up hundreds of artifacts through the years . The surrounding fields are included in this . A Man that lived there for 80+ years had a large collection . After the Agnes flood of 1972 , he found A LOT . Hammers , arrowheads , fish net sinks and more of the usual . Spanish hill has a very unique story , the local natives claimed the Spanish arrived before Columbus and strangely , a Spanish cross was found in Athens ( neat Spanish hill) while excavating for a basement .
Here in PA when we see stream banks with such steep sides it is usually because of "legacy sediment" from mill dams. Could there have been a dam within a half mile downstream of where you were?
I knew about the erosion and stuff but I assumed people found more around water because the stones they used to make to arrowheads were easier to find there… Plus it’s not a bad idea to hunt near a water source… Maybe it’s a little bit of everything is the reason why you find more in creeks… I’ve found a couple points back when I was younger. I’m thinking about getting back into it… Thanks for the info, I love your channel btw…
Im waiting on a big rain, i blew all the leaves from a wash that goes into a creek. You gave me that idea on one of your other videos. These videos are good info.
That is very interesting. Around here on the St. Johns river in N. Central Fla. we have lots of old Indian shards of pottery. Lots and lots of them. They must have been used for cooking and storage and were easily broken so they just made more?
Very interesting video. As to your idea that ancient people must have found in the stream gravel the artifacts of still more ancient people, that may not have been as common as you suppose. As you say, most of the artifacts wind up in the gravel from the eroding of the banks, but I believe that type of erosion would not have been as common in the old days. This type of erosion has likely been greatly sped up by changing land-use patterns, specifically logging the forests and converting land to agricultural use, which in turn changes run-off patterns, especially after plowing, or where there are non-absorbent surfaces like road, roofs, and parking lots.
@@cleggsadventuresSure, but something from a thousand years ago could have washed into the stream yesterday, or might tomorrow. Why do yo think erosion happens at the same rate when land-use and run-off patterns have changed? BTW, I think what you are doing is really cool. Could you give us a rough idea about how many artifacts you have found, and show some of the nicer pieces? Or have you already done that in earlier videos?
@@MartinMMeiss-mj6li Yeah, I know the Arrowhead probably washed out recently. Three Years of CLEGG’S ADVENTURES th-cam.com/video/FoIN1R4gM8o/w-d-xo.html
Was that a mound behind you and the creek at your back in the west?if its in the afternoon? I presume, because the sun is off your left shoulder.about 2:48 in.
I’m from the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. I go to Christ the Savior Church in Wayne, West Virginia. I found my 1st hand-knapped flint arrowhead in Prestonsburg, Kentucky circa 1992 in the strangest place. I was with a friend who was looking for a condo to rent near the old Music Carter Hughes car lot (now closed). As I exited the kitchen’s sliding glass doors for the back deck I looked at the surrounding rock beds. For some reason, this PERFECT arrowhead just stood out against the river rocks around it. I picked it up & gave it to my father (who is like 78 years old now & lives next door to me). I wonder if he still has it. He had been collecting Native American artifacts since he was a young man. I imagine that someone dredged up a bunch of river rocks from a stream & this arrowhead was brought up with it. Pure luck it wasn’t damaged at all. Likely a later artifact by the shape & condition. It was small enough for an arrow. Not a spear point. I think I’ll go ask dad about tomorrow after 33 years! A good reason to check in on the old man 😏
Villages needed to be near water.Arrowheads were likely made and shaped at creekside.The water was handy in shaping stone tools.The plowed fields yields many arrowheads where villages stood.
Living here in New England there are so many streams and brooks and from what I heard from my friend who hunts for arrowheads that there are a lot of arrowheads along the banks of these brooks and streams.
I was fishing one day down in the valley below Tenkiller Lake dam in Oklahoma. The spot is was fishing must have been an old creek that was now a little pond. I knelt down to wash worm slime off my fingers and there was a big arrowhead about 5 inches long. It was in perfect condition after I got all the moss off it. Must have been some kind of knife or spearhead.
Our farm was over one hundred years old and at one time was monstrous but the sold most of it before my parents bought it The farm used to be around a river that went into a lake and was a summer camp for whatever tribe was living there. They had boxes of old arrowheads and a bunch of semi-good ones were in frames. Generally the bad ones would be the ones that would be laying around. I'm sure if anyone had done any digging they would have found a lot more stuff but the only digging we did was plowing the only field left which was only twenty acres. The rest of the old farm was planted Christmas Trees owned by a family a few miles down the road. Those trees gotta be all gone by now it's been thirty years since we lived there and none of the grandkids were field workers.
There's a creek near me where the older man who lives by it told me that when he was a boy, he used to get paid a nickle for every bucket of arrowheads he could pick up out of the farm field. He dumped them in the creek nearby to get rid of them.
Yikes! At 6:00 that looks like a downed power line hanging almost at head height right above the creek. Be careful out there or you may get some SHOCKING results!
I always walk outa this creek with something. Just never anything great. I’ve found one very nice one there, is why I check it. U never know what’s gonna pop out next.
@@cleggsadventures i love all your videos. I seem to forget about all the nasty stuff that can be happening in life for the time being and just enjoy watching you do stuff I would love to do!
One must have a very keen eye hunting for arrowheads ... my brother in law found 3 shoeboxes full along plowed fields on family farm Columbiana County Ohio over the years ...
At 3:20 Whats up with that hill behind you there? It looks suspicious to me. I think it's needs attention! Great video as always Clegg! Im a avid relic hunter myself. I specialize in Native artifacts if i have to choose a specialty lol
I just found a new honey hole under a overhang on the oppisite ridge from a bluff that still has paintings on them, i do wish i knew how old they are but alot of what im finding is big corner notch stuff but some others to
My guess would be that; that is where all the animals or food sources gathered to drink (everything must drink) and became easy targets for hunters. Jus' Sayin'.
My dad introduced me to point hunting when I was 8 I’m now 12 and I love it. Over the past 4 years I’ve collected 24 arrowheads all together and in my collection I have TWO perfect daltons each about 150 - 250 EACH those were my two best finds the best part is my dad and brother stepped right over one 😂 I look over and there it is that was my first ever dalton the other was in a river just sitting there and a blind person couldn’t have missed it it was bone white almost glowing in water the best part of it was it was my first find in that river 😁. That was 2 years ago though and since then I found well over $500 worth of arrowheads 😮
Still never found an arrowhead after all these years. I've hunted Colorado's plains, Central/South West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Middle Tennessee, and yet I have never been blessed with a find. I'll keep looking!
They just built a new bridge beside a very old bridge on a small river. At the turn of the century there were 5000 Osage Indians camped there and where the dug new footings there were a lot of arrowheads, we find them all along that river on sand banks and rocky shelves.
Three guesses: 1. Discards/ lost while hunting for suitable arrow-head stock material. 2. Wounded animals often head to water. 3. Rain washing arrow-heads into lowest area.
I have a creek on my property that actually theres a point where a larger creek meets up with a smaller one in South Central Oklahoma if you ever want to come hunt it you are welcome to because I can't anymore because of cancer but I guarantee there's relics all through this area from an ex friend I let have a look. He didn't scour it by any means. He was just curious and found several arrowheads. Blows me away how much of it there its..
Thank you for your interesting and real presentation, sir. Brings to mind happy times from boyhood days in western Pennsylvania, not far from you there in northern West Virginia.
I have a section of creek i walk alot and find nothing only to come back the next day or after a flood and find flakes and tools and preforms and some times petrified theeth so i keep on truckin to hopefuly one day find that arrowhead
A lot of points are in creeks because, of ambush hunting. Animals always take the path of least resistance. So, the people would wait near the water because the animals would come to them at the water. There were many points lost into the waterways by misses. You are right about the erosion factor but, people did not live on the bank. The people lived on high ground to stay dry but, close so they could get water easily and hunted the lower areas.
Interesting video Scott. Interesting also that it's a slightly different experience you being at a creek instead of the river. River got up pretty high here in Louisville and last time I looked was still up. Thanks for posting!
I found arrowhead in a field along the Ohio a river in WV. I was squirrel hunting a creek bed and stopped near a groundhog mound and found a point in the mound. I also have a potential fossil I found in southern WV, if anyone knows where I can have it verified as to what it may be.
One thing that happens when stone objects are washed out of a bank and tumbled in a gravel bar the edges and tips get broken and rounded off. I have a stone tool and spearpoint that were found on a beach in the Chesapeake Bay. These two artifacts were polished by wave action and tumbling with sand and gravel. The edges are smoothed and rounded off. When I search for stone artifacts I look for the type of stone that the points and scraper would be made from rather than simply a shape. In my area a type of quartzite is from a small geographic area but the material is common in stone tools throughout the region. They are relatively easier to spot against the more native stone.
My grandsons 7/9 love your channel. Especially the video with the spirit Indian/Native American after you. They cackled on that one...had to replay it several times for them. Just got started looking for arrowheads/artifacts. Took them yesterday after a 4 foot swell from a 3 inch rain had subsided to about 14 inches depth. All we found on the dry sand/gravel bar were "Indian Beads" (fossils) but everything is a treasure to them...and it gets them into the woods. Going back in a day or two after the flow drops another foot so I/we can really look at the rock bars. Yesterday revealed a ton of freshly rolled, clean rock in the bottom of the creek that - before the rain - was all mossy and hard to discern. Going to try and focus adjacent to flat ground BUT with move to a section directly adjacent to both the flat on one side and the steep / pointed ridges that overlook the creek and have eroded over hundreds of years...right onto the creek bed...on the opposite side. I picture them camping on those ridges, too, as they empty out onto flat ground. Thanks! Rory
Sounds like a good spot you have. The leaves finally got washed away here. The river is still a little high but dropping. Hope y’all find a nice one!👍
Those are two lucky boys and they'll remember you for showing them about treasure hunting.
Thank you. Enjoying God's creation.@@pplusbthrust
as an old bow hunter my take on creek arrowheads is that hunters would travel the creek bottoms to get a shot at browsing deer up on the flats and anywhere up to a hundred yards from said creek would be where arrows would land if the deer was missed and also a wounded deer if it got away would head for water in its injured condition and possibly die in the creek. It would also be a good place to process a successful kill.
I’m sure it happened many times
Tribes also lived near water on higher ground so they spent time making those arrowheads,thus more opportunity to find a bunch of them in one area
I was thinking the same thing. Arrowhead injured animals go to the creek to die.
I found a few points at a deer crossing I was hunting on a small creek in East Texas. I'm sure those Indians hunted creek crossings too and probably missed like I have as well! I have some missing arrows still out there in the East Texas woods and have found a few arrows lost by other hunters!
Archeologists consensus is natives never hunted near or around their water source for obvious reasons. Most artifacts found in creek beds are most likely from erosion of the flats around them.
That was very interesting! You have a good eye for finding that stuff! One additional factor that's going on here is that surface runoff is vastly greater in post-settlement times than it was in pre-settlement times. That's because the runoff from tilled fields and even from cleared forests is enormously greater than it was when those places were still in their natural states. Typical rivers and creeks in post-settlement times have cut much deeper into their beds than had been the case in the distant past, and there is also far greater bank erosion going on. That's the result of high-flow events occurring far more frequently and in greater volume than was typical in pre-settlement times. My previous career involved examining soils within excavations for construction in all sorts of locations, and when excavations are done within floodplains and even just the bottoms of broad, gently-sloped valleys, there's usually clear evidence of the changes in erosion and/or deposition that have taken place in post-settlement times as compared to what was happening earlier. Erosion of the banks and bottoms of creek channels always took place, and it followed the same "rules" as what we see today, but the volume of soil that is being moved by streams is many times greater in modern times than it ever was in the distant past.
Sounds like you have it down.👍
in the 70's, I found an Indian spearhead, arrowheads, n a stone that had a rabbit carved into it. The ppl who owned the land were digging up an area with machinery to make a tank for cattle. In an another area found fossil clams look like hearts the size of baseballs. Close to Fredericksburg, Tx
I knew it was TX Hill Country before I read where you were from. Canyon Lake, 1971-72, found lots of those clams, and fossilized boar tusks. Plus you said, "Tank".
Most of “ Texas and Louisiana were under sea water 💦 at one time. This could be as far north as the outskirts of DFW too. In Rockwall Texas, with their famous 7 story wall .. they (archeologists) have dug down to find the bottom of that wall to find clams and seawater crustaceans which were still rubbery, well-preserved and attached to that sea wall. There is a video (audio) on TH-cam that goes into great detail on this interesting masonry and limestone Rockwall structure. Particles of the mortar used contain bits and fragments of a rare earth metal element that are today found in metallurgical components that make up the blades found in today’s fighter jet engines. ( ! ? ! ) So, whoever constructed this wall-platform knew something about metallurgy and how the buried Rockwall was used in some sort of air-jet-transportation platform. IE, the Rockwall structure has electrical qualities to it with other electrical power equipment operating nearby. Watch the video. It’s eye opening. Ancient Texas excavations yield some very interesting history!
@@TucoJames The oxygen level was greater back then ..hence everything grew bigger. Plants people crustaceans..🦞 🦪🍤🍍🍒🍇🍋
Knowing all this, I STILL watch you because of how enjoyable your demeanor is on camera. Love the creek exploration videos you've been doing a bit more than "THE digging spot" videos. Thanks for posting!
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Your content is so authentic and genuine. I love it.
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Honestly I felt like this video was just for my old artifacts hunting self , I walk a stream just like yours on my brother’s property I learned so much - the part about the gravel beds being constantly re worked by the water … that hit me ! There’s like seven gravel bars in his stream, and I have not thought to go back and look at them after several rains -I feel like such a goober !! Thanks for that tidbit
Waters high down here in Arkansas too
Emma Watson …. She don’t believe a word you say Clegg …. But she says Hey 👋
Yeah, that gravel turns over every wash. I look this creek a lot, but don’t always find stuff.
Emma just wants her 10¢ pills
@@cleggsadventuresEmma and her pills!😂😂😂😂😂
Nice find, thanks for taking us along!
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My old boss used to own property where natives would camp in the summers. He found literally thousands of arrowheads that were either broken or fragments that they discarded after they broke. He had buckets of them. His family owned it for 90+ years. In all those years he found 5 or 6 arrowheads that were fully intact. Unfortunately for him the waterfront property that his family had owned for 90+ years became incredibly valuable and his family that had all moved elsewhere wanted to sell it and he couldn’t afford to buy them out so he had to sell it. Now there are 10 mansions on the property and they brought in thousands of yards of fill to raise the land above the floodplain. All of that history is buried now. He didn’t end up getting much for his portion of the land. He probably would have preferred to sell it back to the tribe but they don’t have any money and couldn’t compete with the land developers that bought it.
My Dad and I use to hunt for arrowheads back in the 70 s in Dent County Missouri exactly how you are describing it in this video. lot s of fun can be back breaking. I have no idea where those arrowheads went he had a few large matchboxes full. It s a great hobby if you got a place to look.
Missouri is one of the best states to search. Lots of artifacts there
There you are!! I was just hoping you didn't take the entire winter off there!! I recall many frigid wintry days during my four years at WVWC but then there were the nice breaks and Audra State Park with terrain and streams just yours there and 'hot' mid-winter days often well into the 60s! Jim C,
I’m just glad it’s warmer this week, it’s been bad. Hard to get out and find stuff
Cool show, brother Scott 😎✌️!!!
I really need to find some creeks to walk.... Nice finds too ✌️🍀⛏️⛏️⛏️
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Great video! I grew up in Lorton/Woodbridge Va and would find cool artifacts along the Pohick east of the Railroad tracks. My Mom said she would find arrow heads all the time as a little girl and would throw them.
Just a great show, thx for showing us the ropes.. props Clegg 💪
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Ive been looking for years and havent found one. I only ever found 1 artifact but im hooked! Nice find bro and thanks for the info.
Thanks for explaining a bit on erosion and stream/river recovery of artifacts. Pretty cool finding points, blades, pottery and the like. Keep on filming. You have a great channel.
Thank you
You explained something I wanted to know. I have a Civil War battle site near my home it was on a river. A friend of mine was boating down the river when he rounded the bend where the battle took place at the original bridge. He found five Minnie balls on a small shelf of rock where the water had washed away the soil allowing the bullets to fall on the shelf waiting for him to come along.
Nice!👍
Scott: Just yesterday, I was wondering when you would publish another vid. I know, winter has been a little rough. Good to see you again, bud. Have a good one. Enjoyed it! We have had a couple big/hard rains this winter. I need to walk the two branches, crossing my place. Who knows what I will find. Good motivation video.
Much Appreciated. The river has been high, it’s just now getting back down.
Hi Scott , it is good to see you out hunting again . As usual very informative , with the eyes of an eagle
It is great to see you
out and about
Yeah Bill, we’re finally getting some better weather
I live close to Floyds Fork creek in Bullitt Co, KY and i've hunted on gravel bars that look just like where you are. I find a lot of fossils (ancient small clams small marine life), but I've never found a point. I always surface hunt, maybe I should dig some. Good video, glad to see you're still out and about.
Thanks David
my situation may be a lot like yours, i live close to Baker's Fork creek in Southern ohio, close to Serpent Mound, & i have those gravel/sand bars too....i'm making a shaker now & am planning on sifting them....i've found 6 arrowheads & 2 scrapers on my property but now will try the creek...
One other thing I always looked for when I was younger was a rivulet in the bank wshing down from the level field above. These usually form in floods and heavy rain run offs over the years and sometimes they are full of good stuff like a fruitcake full of candied fruit.
@@poetcomic1 We’ve had so much flooding in the Ohio Valley this winter. It’s all flooded now again. The searching will be good this spring and summer
The arrowhead you found at 4:58 is an actual arrowhead that was tied to an arrow. These smaller ones are the ones they used with their bows.
I just found some of your videos. Great stuff. I will continue to watch. Thanks for sharing
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You are in West Virginia...my Grandparents lived in Kansas. I played in those creeks for years as a kid.
Mr. Clegg, good show sir! One question for you is, would there be any use to bringing a metal detector into these areas in rivers and creeks??
Yeah, ya never know what has washed down.
I will have to check chippawa creek more no arrowheads yet but cool stone tools, love your videos, inspiires me to keep looking thanks
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I haven't found one in years. I'm in Greeneville TN. About two miles from my house they had a big dig going on right beside the river. They found a settlement.
Wish they still plowed fields. 😢
Heard that!
Me too
They don’t?
Very interesting. Cool info.
Uh no. Topsoil is too valuable and takes to long to make to erode.
I never thought about it but the natives making stone tools would have found older stone tools of a different style and some of them would have copied the older designs to see if they were better. You are the only person I’ve watched or read that mentioned this possibility.
They has to find stuff
Just found your channel. Great work and sharing how to look for ancient artifacts.
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dude,,,,, u are awsome......wish u would travel up to nothern va and see all the creeks up here and see what u find!!!!!!!
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A lot of fun and excitement, finding artifacts from the past.
I love the hobby 👍
I see the natives left one of their tires sticking out of the bank at 1:29
@@riverraisin1 I think Model T
Cheif rollin
Just our own artifacts for future generations to find 😅
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Toyo dirt grabbers😂
👍 I can picture a Woodland period native picking up a fine Clovis point and feeling like he won the lottery. I wonder what did run through their minds about ages of different artifacts they found. That little arrow you found is an anomaly.
Probably thought it was 50 years old. I figure they found a lot, seeing they would be looking for flint type stone
I was just thinking about this to how often did they find paleo arrowheads and if they knew how old they were
@@revengeoftheriddler I’m sure they knew it came from earlier people but no way to know how old.
With no records, I figure 3 or 4 generations later, it was forgotten.
Great video and channel. You made a great point at the end.
Expedient tools are common but often overlooked. Over the years I've learned At some of these sites the textbooks offer little help.
Yeah, there’s not much info. I find, I learn more in the field anyway
Subscribed. You will have great success with your content on TH-cam. I love your videos, its like im with you finding arrowheads to. Keep the content coming I promise you this channel is gonna blow up. Thanks for the hard work you put into this for us all to enjoy. You will be rewarded.
Much Appreciated! I’ve been at it for 4 years, it’s a long hard road.👍
I am a bottle guy. Amazing how I think I have found all the bottles in a spot, and then, just like that, I find another. I love to go out after a big rain. You never know what rain will wash out or rinse off
@@scotttatlock3188 I know a few spots like that
Where my grandparents use to live they used a sinkhole like a garbage dump.we use to find bottles in it before it got to growed up to get to.
I use to manage a ranch north of Austin and the of University of Texas had dug on the creek that ran through the ranch. We found probably a cigar box full of in the 3 years there. We take break once a to hunt for arrowheads.🇺🇸🤠
Very nice
We scan fields in the spring after they are plowed . One problem with this is fewer fields are now plowed . Great content
Much Appreciated. Less fields here too
When we were really young we were taken on walks in local fields to look for arrowheads. Still have lots of what we found around.Sometimes I would find the occasional arrowhead in pristine condition like they were just made.My father would make them in his shop and drop them in the dirt and say lets look over here for some. Just figured this out after he passed away.Guess he thought it was better if we actually found some every time we went out.
@@692ALBANNACH very cool !
I live in Pennsylvania near Tioga point and Spanish hill . The confluences in our area seem to be great places to find Artifacts . There is a confluence of Sugar creek and a no-named run in East Troy that gave up hundreds of artifacts through the years . The surrounding fields are included in this . A Man that lived there for 80+ years had a large collection . After the Agnes flood of 1972 , he found A LOT . Hammers , arrowheads , fish net sinks and more of the usual . Spanish hill has a very unique story , the local natives claimed the Spanish arrived before Columbus and strangely , a Spanish cross was found in Athens ( neat Spanish hill) while excavating for a basement .
Think of all the points that are still in the gravel and the deep holes that will never be found.. Love the videos!
Much Appreciated! Yeah, probably walking right by them and don’t even know
Here in PA when we see stream banks with such steep sides it is usually because of "legacy sediment" from mill dams. Could there have been a dam within a half mile downstream of where you were?
This is just a small stream. No steams dammed around here
I knew about the erosion and stuff but I assumed people found more around water because the stones they used to make to arrowheads were easier to find there… Plus it’s not a bad idea to hunt near a water source… Maybe it’s a little bit of everything is the reason why you find more in creeks… I’ve found a couple points back when I was younger. I’m thinking about getting back into it… Thanks for the info, I love your channel btw…
Much Appreciated! Get out there, you’ll find something 👍
@@cleggsadventures Yes sir, I can’t wait for spring to roll around… I’m a fisherman anyway, so why not look while I’m walking the creeks…
Im waiting on a big rain, i blew all the leaves from a wash that goes into a creek. You gave me that idea on one of your other videos. These videos are good info.
Good luck out there 👍
That is very interesting. Around here on the St. Johns river in N. Central Fla. we have lots of old Indian shards of pottery. Lots and lots of them. They must have been used for cooking and storage and were easily broken so they just made more?
Very interesting video. As to your idea that ancient people must have found in the stream gravel the artifacts of still more ancient people, that may not have been as common as you suppose. As you say, most of the artifacts wind up in the gravel from the eroding of the banks, but I believe that type of erosion would not have been as common in the old days. This type of erosion has likely been greatly sped up by changing land-use patterns, specifically logging the forests and converting land to agricultural use, which in turn changes run-off patterns, especially after plowing, or where there are non-absorbent surfaces like road, roofs, and parking lots.
I see what you’re saying, but erosion happens at the same rate, and I find stuff from 1000 years ago
@@cleggsadventuresSure, but something from a thousand years ago could have washed into the stream yesterday, or might tomorrow. Why do yo think erosion happens at the same rate when land-use and run-off patterns have changed?
BTW, I think what you are doing is really cool. Could you give us a rough idea about how many artifacts you have found, and show some of the nicer pieces? Or have you already done that in earlier videos?
@@MartinMMeiss-mj6li Yeah, I know the Arrowhead probably washed out recently.
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Howdy Clegg! I'm really enjoying your channel. Do you ever find any Clovis stuff? I imagine that would be pretty high on your bucket list.
@@jonericus Much Appreciated! Hard to find in this area, I haven’t found one yet.
Was that a mound behind you and the creek at your back in the west?if its in the afternoon? I presume, because the sun is off your left shoulder.about 2:48 in.
No, no mounds around that area I know of.
I’m from the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. I go to Christ the Savior Church in Wayne, West Virginia. I found my 1st hand-knapped flint arrowhead in Prestonsburg, Kentucky circa 1992 in the strangest place. I was with a friend who was looking for a condo to rent near the old Music Carter Hughes car lot (now closed). As I exited the kitchen’s sliding glass doors for the back deck I looked at the surrounding rock beds. For some reason, this PERFECT arrowhead just stood out against the river rocks around it. I picked it up & gave it to my father (who is like 78 years old now & lives next door to me). I wonder if he still has it. He had been collecting Native American artifacts since he was a young man. I imagine that someone dredged up a bunch of river rocks from a stream & this arrowhead was brought up with it. Pure luck it wasn’t damaged at all. Likely a later artifact by the shape & condition. It was small enough for an arrow. Not a spear point. I think I’ll go ask dad about tomorrow after 33 years! A good reason to check in on the old man 😏
Villages needed to be near water.Arrowheads were likely made and shaped at creekside.The water was handy in shaping stone tools.The plowed fields yields many arrowheads where villages stood.
Living here in New England there are so many streams and brooks and from what I heard from my friend who hunts for arrowheads that there are a lot of arrowheads along the banks of these brooks and streams.
Exactly
I have a creek on my property in WV, never thought to look for arrowheads
I was fishing one day down in the valley below Tenkiller Lake dam in Oklahoma. The spot is was fishing must have been an old creek that was now a little pond. I knelt down to wash worm slime off my fingers and there was a big arrowhead about 5 inches long. It was in perfect condition after I got all the moss off it. Must have been some kind of knife or spearhead.
The right place at the right time! Nice
Our farm was over one hundred years old and at one time was monstrous but the sold most of it before my parents bought it
The farm used to be around a river that went into a lake and was a summer camp for whatever tribe was living there. They had boxes of old arrowheads and a bunch of semi-good ones were in frames.
Generally the bad ones would be the ones that would be laying around.
I'm sure if anyone had done any digging they would have found a lot more stuff but the only digging we did was plowing the only field left which was only twenty acres. The rest of the old farm was planted Christmas Trees owned by a family a few miles down the road.
Those trees gotta be all gone by now it's been thirty years since we lived there and none of the grandkids were field workers.
Sounds like a great area
sometimes i think when an arrowhead broke, they just tried to resharpen it even though that would cause it to look non-standard afterward.
Here in Huntington WV and I’m trying so hard to find artifacts!!! I can’t wait til I can find my first one.
You’ll get one 👍
That little white one you say looks like a dove tail cutter.....it really does! Looks like a 10k year old exacto knife!
There's a creek near me where the older man who lives by it told me that when he was a boy, he used to get paid a nickle for every bucket of arrowheads he could pick up out of the farm field. He dumped them in the creek nearby to get rid of them.
Looks like fun! Always a pleasure brother! 😉
Much Appreciated Sam
Very cool, I'll have to try looking at the creek by my place.
Nice
have a creek running through our backyard here in oregon. Found tons of arrowheads Big and little Pestle's tons of history
Very Nice 👍
Yikes! At 6:00 that looks like a downed power line hanging almost at head height right above the creek. Be careful out there or you may get some SHOCKING results!
@@1notgilty Phone I think
@@cleggsadventures I hope so. I wouldn't advising standing in the water and touching it.
Good video! 🤔 I think I will do some serious looking again at the creek on my property. Take care.
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If we came out there can we hire you to take us hunting for arrowheads?
@@cynthieanna I’m a TH-camr , but not a tour guide. Sorry
Amazing how this guy can spot these artifacts so easily !
Hawk eye
Man I must be looking in the wrong areas because in this one video you have found so much! Crazy!!!!
I always walk outa this creek with something. Just never anything great. I’ve found one very nice one there, is why I check it. U never know what’s gonna pop out next.
@@cleggsadventures i love all your videos. I seem to forget about all the nasty stuff that can be happening in life for the time being and just enjoy watching you do stuff I would love to do!
Great Video! New Subscriber form Northern WV Wetzel County
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Really great video thanks for sharing
Thank you
Great video. Looks like the water's gonna finally be back to normal today around here. I can't wait to get down there this evening
Thanks. Maybe be some good searching 👍
great information .. thanks for sharing your tips.. peace
Thank you. 👍✌️
One must have a very keen eye hunting for arrowheads ... my brother in law found 3 shoeboxes full along plowed fields on family farm Columbiana County Ohio over the years ...
Fields are great spots
At 3:20 Whats up with that hill behind you there? It looks suspicious to me. I think it's needs attention! Great video as always Clegg! Im a avid relic hunter myself. I specialize in Native artifacts if i have to choose a specialty lol
That hill goes on up after that.
I just found a new honey hole under a overhang on the oppisite ridge from a bluff that still has paintings on them, i do wish i knew how old they are but alot of what im finding is big corner notch stuff but some others to
Very Cool👍
Good to see you Scott. That was a nice video Say hi to Rocky. Peace
Much Appreciated! Rocky says hey
Yes! Loved the video Clegg. My absolute favorite channel.
Thanks Charles
I will never look at an exposed river bottom in the old way again. Thanks!
My guess would be that; that is where all the animals or food sources gathered to drink (everything must drink) and became easy targets for hunters. Jus' Sayin'.
I think I recognize this exact creek/ property. I may be wrong. But looks very familiar.
My dad introduced me to point hunting when I was 8 I’m now 12 and I love it. Over the past 4 years I’ve collected 24 arrowheads all together and in my collection I have TWO perfect daltons each about 150 - 250 EACH those were my two best finds the best part is my dad and brother stepped right over one 😂 I look over and there it is that was my first ever dalton the other was in a river just sitting there and a blind person couldn’t have missed it it was bone white almost glowing in water the best part of it was it was my first find in that river 😁. That was 2 years ago though and since then I found well over $500 worth of arrowheads 😮
You’re on a Roll! I have yet to find a Dalton. Those are old!
I live in Oklahoma along the Arkansas river , crazy how many are in the river bed
That’s a good state for artifacts
They fall out of their pockets when they get a drink
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How many years were you Active Duty?
4 years active, 3 years Guard
Still never found an arrowhead after all these years. I've hunted Colorado's plains, Central/South West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Middle Tennessee, and yet I have never been blessed with a find. I'll keep looking!
Rivers are better usually
My son found one in a New England brook. My daughter found one below a turf capped slump in the badlands
Nice
We find stuff in a small stream about 50 yards behind my house that flows into a much larger creek about a mile away
Nice!👍
In PA, my Great Uncle had a lit of what he called Bird Arrowheads
Yes, that is the general term used for arrow tips. Most others were used on darts or spears.
Great info I like your sweater
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They just built a new bridge beside a very old bridge on a small river. At the turn of the century there were 5000 Osage Indians camped there and where the dug new footings there were a lot of arrowheads, we find them all along that river on sand banks and rocky shelves.
Very cool
Ive been wanting to do tutorials like this for a while! No point in it now when the best is already out there 😂 awsome vid sir! 🙌🏻
I’d watch your take. Love the videos
Good information on creek walking!❤
Thanks Cynthia 👍
Three guesses: 1. Discards/ lost while hunting for suitable arrow-head stock material. 2. Wounded animals often head to water. 3. Rain washing arrow-heads into lowest area.
Probably the first. No Flint in this area, only sandstone. And, the creek is very small. Probably a living area
How sad about the wounded animals. They suffered and searched for water as they died. Breaks my heart to imagine. Each arrowhead tells a story.
People too, I can't remember the Western book or movie but it talked about how arrow wounds would have men begging for water until they died.
I have a creek on my property that actually theres a point where a larger creek meets up with a smaller one in South Central Oklahoma if you ever want to come hunt it you are welcome to because I can't anymore because of cancer but I guarantee there's relics all through this area from an ex friend I let have a look. He didn't scour it by any means. He was just curious and found several arrowheads. Blows me away how much of it there its..
@@robertbraun7155 Very Much Appreciated
Thank you for your interesting and real presentation, sir. Brings to mind happy times from boyhood days in western Pennsylvania, not far from you there in northern West Virginia.
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I have a section of creek i walk alot and find nothing only to come back the next day or after a flood and find flakes and tools and preforms and some times petrified theeth so i keep on truckin to hopefuly one day find that arrowhead
There’s one there somewhere 👍
A lot of points are in creeks because, of ambush hunting. Animals always take the path of least resistance. So, the people would wait near the water because the animals would come to them at the water. There were many points lost into the waterways by misses. You are right about the erosion factor but, people did not live on the bank. The people lived on high ground to stay dry but, close so they could get water easily and hunted the lower areas.
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Do you call those little darts "atatl" points?
@@bdpage2023 No, atlatl has no points. Has a hook
Great adventure and informative!
Thank you Much 👍
Interesting video Scott. Interesting also that it's a slightly different experience you being at a creek instead of the river. River got up pretty high here in Louisville and last time I looked was still up. Thanks for posting!
It was up here too. Back down now, but muddy
I found arrowhead in a field along the Ohio a river in WV. I was squirrel hunting a creek bed and stopped near a groundhog mound and found a point in the mound.
I also have a potential fossil I found in southern WV, if anyone knows where I can have it verified as to what it may be.
Groundhog probably dug it out
@@cleggsadventures it certainly did
One thing that happens when stone objects are washed out of a bank and tumbled in a gravel bar the edges and tips get broken and rounded off. I have a stone tool and spearpoint that were found on a beach in the Chesapeake Bay. These two artifacts were polished by wave action and tumbling with sand and gravel. The edges are smoothed and rounded off. When I search for stone artifacts I look for the type of stone that the points and scraper would be made from rather than simply a shape. In my area a type of quartzite is from a small geographic area but the material is common in stone tools throughout the region. They are relatively easier to spot against the more native stone.