Arrowhead Hunting???

[stinkbelly]

We have a spot at our lease that is on the ridge just over a creek. There is chipped up flint pieces everywhere for about 40 yards. My buddy found a really neat half of a spear point in the middle of all the chipped up flint. We have searched around and the creek, but we can't find anything else.

[quarterback]

Don't be too quick to discard chipped up flint pieces. I have buckets full of them and they can be artifacts in themselves. They can also tell you where they were making points and possibly near a camp. Keep an eye out for larger sandstone manos and metates as well. Although large (and broken more often than not), people tend to overlook them because they are not flint-like. Remember too that hide scrapers may look like just another piece of raw flint to the untrained eye.

[txnduckhntr]

I just bought a metal detector it would be cool to find a brass shot gun shell. I am headed to the ranch on monday to hunt artifacts around the 150 yr old home place as well as a rock wall that runs through the place. I hope to post pic's of cool artifacts on tuesday. I found 2 unspent bullets in my yard yesterday and a couple of old dimes tonight

i got me a metal detector and me and the wife went prowling around a dug out on the ranch.. found a bunch of those old irons(for clothes) and some cool old tools..
we parked the truck a mile away or so and were enjoying the walk back and that detector just went beserk! i broke out the shovel and started digging, and about 2 ft down i hit a metal "lid" needless to say i frantically kept digging had me what looked like a metal lid to a treasure chest about 2.5'x2' square!!! man i swear i thought i found a mexican payroll box.
after i dug it up it was a wood stove. got it on my porch for no other reason than i worked in 100 degree heat for 2 hours to dig it up!

[Pablo]

Nice thread.

I hunt on Cummins Creek Fayette County where the Tonkawa Indians lived.

Will keep my eye out for the flint.

[txnduckhntr]

Nice thread.

I hunt on Cummins Creek Fayette County where the Tonkawa Indians lived.

Will keep my eye out for the flint.

now that a good area to find stuff!!

[Pablo]

So far I just found petrified wood, but I haven't been too serious about the arrowheads yet.

I will be focusing a bit more on that now that we're in the off-season.

I know roughly where some of the burial grounds are by word of mouth, but I wouldn't be messing with that area. Bad karma you know.

[ifishdad]

Dont look for the arrowhead its self. Just like anything else look for a point or edge of the point.You wont look over as many

[Hawkins]

On my lease in Young County, there is a historical marker on the highway that says, I think, "spot of the last indian battle in Young County, or something. About 100 yards from my feeder is a tombstone with about 10 or 12 different names on it. Might have to check it out!

[quarterback]

Hawkins is that the Elm Creek Raid on the historical marker?

[Hawkins]

I had to ask my friend that owns the land.

Little Salt Creek Indian Fight

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txjack/80_yrs_in_Jack_Co/page34.htm

Marker Title: Little Salt Creek Indian Fight
Address: SH 114, SE of Olney
City: Olney
Year Marker Erected: 1971
Marker Location: From Olney, take SH 114 about 6 mi SE.
Marker Text: Duel between a cattle roundup crew and Indians, on May 16, 1869. Cowboys attacked at their work were Shapley Carter, Bill Crow, and Henry Harrison, all of Palo Pinto County; crew captain Ira E. Graves, J.W. Gray, W.C. Kutch, and Jason McClain, of Jack County; George and John Lemley and Rube Seachrist, Young County; ****, the cook from Tarrant County. All day the crew held at bay 57 Comanches, who left that night. Nine cowboys were wounded--Carter, Crow, and John Lemley died. Texans never forgot the unprovoked attack.

[Hawkins]

I guess all those name are people who were there, only three died it reads.

[Johnny]

So should I wait to go search these creeks that I have access to after a hard rain? I guess this is just improving odds of seeing something since the rocks are cleaned off and shiny.

Also, how many times do you guys look in the same places?

I have looked over the same places so many times it isn't even funny. Rising water will expose things there wern't there the last time after the water level drops. Now as far as hunting on land, I use the same concept after a good hard rain which also exposes things that were missed the last time out.

Also we need to keep in mind that we are not talking about the indians from the 1700's or 1800's. The artifacts that are found are from a VERY long time ago. Anywhere from 800 years ago to 10,000 years ago. This ain't the Cherokee or the Comanche we are talking about here.

[Hockley]

Also we need to keep in mind that we are not talking about the indians from the 1700's or 1800's. The artifacts that are found are from a VERY long time ago. Anywhere from 800 years ago to 10,000 years ago. This ain't the Cherokee or the Comanche we are talking about here.

Can you go into a little more detail here?

[quarterback]

Tell him Johnny.

[RICHRELICS13]

I hunt in deep East Texas if all the snakes would just get out of my way i could find some points.