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  • Help Identifying Arrowhead- First Find

    First off, hello! I found this forum when I was trying to figure out what kind of arrowhead I might have found and wondered if you all would be able to help!

    I am super new to this. We have a creek along our property that my kids and I go out creek stomping and crawdad hunting and looking for “treasures.” We’ve found all sorts of tiles and bottles and jars but earlier this summer I found an arrowhead while we were out there. Literally just looked down and there it was.

    location info: Found in the creek along our property. In the hills of Lawrence county, Ohio. Semi-rural area in the hills, about 1 mile from the Ohio river.

    In the photos, some I took with a tape measure. One or two I took with a one inch by one inch square tile (also found in the creek. 😆)

    If there is any other information I missed, please let me know! I read the post beforehand but I may have missed something.

    Based off my googling and what I knew was in this area, my guess was maybe Adena or Hopewell? But I really don’t have any idea.

  • #2
    welcome to arrowheads.com Its hard to say what type you have due to the damage on the base. I am not seeing an Adena type as you mentioned. Is the point thin? Perhaps intrusive mound or Jacksreef corner notch. It is large for these types but the do have a pentagonal outline and the notches on both sweep in and up from the corners.
    Last edited by Hoss; 11-30-2021, 02:45 PM.
    TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post

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    • clovisoid
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      Spot on call!

  • #3
    Thanks! Yeah it was a wild guess, I really have no clue.

    would say it’s thin. At the very tip, roughly 1mm by my tape measure. No more than 2 or 3mm in the middle where it’s thickest.

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    • #4
      yes that would be considered thin in my opinion and it appears flat in cross section. Judging by the pentagonal shape and the one intact notch I would call it a Jacksreef corner notch. Nice find especially because it was close to home. Not everyone can go out back and find a point.
      TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post

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      • #5
        Congrats that is a heck of a nice find! Hold it up to the light, and I bet you'll see the nice warm glow of translucent material. (Carter Cave probably.)
        Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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        • #6
          Nice find in your back yard!
          SW Connecticut

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          • #7
            great find , congrats
            Wyoming

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            • #8
              really nice good on ya. cant beat that for a first find.
              Utah

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              • #9
                Welcome from west central Florida..Cool find nice material.
                Floridaboy.

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                • #10
                  Welcome from Alabama. I agree that it is most likely a Jacks Reef Corner Notch.

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                  • #11
                    Wow. Some newbies have all the luck…..

                    Welcome, LK! I hope you’re hooked because not only heckuva first find, you in area of long rich history, with many, many treasures; and you’ve come upon site with collective IQ bout 20000, and hundreds years experience!
                    Digging in GA, ‘bout a mile from the Savannah River

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                    • #12
                      Welcome to the A.com family, your in good company. I do see the resemblance to a Jacks Reef. I would like to call it a MacPherson because that's what it looks like to me. The Macs are known to be made of Chalcedony, however that is more of an East Coast point, And I doubt it is found in Ohio. But what do I know! I agree with Clovis, I bet it's translucent. Kim From Central Pa.
                      Knowledge is about how and where to find more Knowledge. Snyder County Pa.

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                      • #13
                        Thanks everyone! Ever since I found it, I look to see what else I can find when I’m out there, but figures that I found that one at a time when I wasn’t really looking for anything, just out playing around with the kids. Of course now that I’m looking, I haven’t found anything.

                        I have a B.A. in History and took archaeology in college so it’s definitely something I can see myself getting really in to. Especially when I can pretty much start in my own yard.

                        Are there any good books/resources you all would recommend?

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                        • Cecilia
                          Cecilia commented
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                          Here you go; you gonna love this site, “Knowledge Bank” of OSU, with lotsa old copies periodical, The Ohio Archeologist! Vol. 4, 1966 was one of my very first repasts, and I ate those illustrations up with a spoon!


                      • #14
                        Welcome fromSouthern Indiana. Nice little corner notch. The web site to google is Projectile Points ID; and it will produce a site that will help you ID points in your area.
                        Keep looking down......

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