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How many points can one location produce? This is my first year arrowhead hunting. I have a great mentor. I actually met him while walking a field. That field turned out to be my best field. I got to walk that field for about 4 weeks til it was all grown up with weeds and corn. I found 43 points in about 15 acres of field. The guy I met there found 31 there this year. He didn't walk much this year because of an ankle injury. He said another guy walks it too, and he found about 10. The guy I met said that he has been walking it since 2016 and has found over 300 points from that field. I'm sure people have been walking this field for a long time. We have late paleo lanceolate pieces from there, many points that date through the early, mid, and late archaic period, and also late woodland triangle points. I have a good collection of missisipian pottery from there as well. How many more points can possibly be there?
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I have seen fields that have been walked out, no points just flint chips and fields that produced an almost unlimited amount of artifacts. some fields have been farmed and hunted a long time and yours may be a new field that will produce for a long timeSouth East Ga. Twin City -
I have permission for quite a few some have good finds others only a few. But with notil in full effect now even a turned field won’t have much to find. I walked one today fresh harvest had big rain on it and only found one Adena knife that was so badly broken I couldn’t even save it. When they turned it before no til I used to find many.NW Georgia,Comment
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Each site of course is different..That’s just plain cruel, tellin me about all them pointy things and not posting any photos,Lol.Floridaboy.Comment
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I bought a site in east tx and excacated a little less than 2 acres. It produced over 30,000 points. Crazy bunch of other odds and ends as well.Comment
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This thread needs pictures!!!Comment
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These are what I found from the field that I mentioned. I had the points labeled to show somebody recently and haven't taken the sticky notes off yet. Lots of other flakes, scrapers, hammerstones, pottery, and midden type stuff. Thats a piece of a bone carved fish hook in the midden case. The field runs across a ridgetop, less than a mile from a major river. Western PAComment
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Lots of pottery I seeNW Georgia,Comment
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We used to hunt a RI field that attracted collectors from all over southern New England. It was not unusual for the Mrs. and I to find a half dozen or more points on each visit. We hunted it a lot in the 90’s. But we were late comers. That same field in the 1940’s and 50’s spit out 50+ complete points for the old timers who walked it. Our mentor, who showed us many fields in the 90’s, said it was easy to collect 50 or more each hunt. Another put it this way: “in the old days we collected points, now we hunt for them”. That field still gives up points, amazingly if you ask me, but not like the “good ole days”…..Rhode IslandComment
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If your hunting grounds check all the boxes as a good seasonal campsite chances are it was used for an untold number of year. Maybe even thousands of years. Imagine a small family group making tools and points as needed season after season and the numbers can be staggering even in a very small area. Keep on the hunt. There’s still plenty of the good stuff out there.Uncle Trav- Southwest MichiganComment
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Hunting farm land is literally just scratching the surface.Comment
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considering that some stuff could be 6+ ft deep in context. never !!! I hunt fields that the old timers said were hunted out and still find points all the time !New JerseyComment
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yup ya just have to get out their !!!New JerseyComment
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Hay Roger, those Artifacts look mighty familiar. Kim from central Pa. Nice year.Knowledge is about how and where to find more Knowledge. Snyder County Pa.Comment
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