Newbie from Licking County Ohio

[Savage1!]

Hello all,
my name is Mike and I'm thankful to be a part of this fine community. I started collecting native American artifacts around 14 years of age. At that time, I lived in Denton county Texas. I amassed over 350 arrowheads, tools, and pottery. I also have a native American baby tooth in my collection. Over the years I lost many of them moving to different states. Luckily I still have about half my collection. I now reside in licking county ohio for the past eight years. I moved to Ohio back in 92.

My Ohio collection is quite small. I'm getting the bug to hunt for more artifact. I've done a lot of research on my current area, and I have some promising leads that will up my chances. As most of you know licking county had a massive Indian population.

[Savage1!]

More from Denton

[Savage1!]

These are my Ohio Finds. My tools and pottery pieces from Texas are boxed away, I'll post them in the near future.

[gregszybala]

Welcome to the site and nice collection.
Just a suggestion Mike, lose the tooth, bury back where you found it or repatriate. It is illegal to own!

[Savage1!]

That baby tooth was found in Little Elm Texas back in 89. I'll have to bury it in Ohio this afternoon.

[sailorjoe]

Hi Mike, Welcome to our forum from Alabama. Hope you do well in your future hunting in Ohio. FWIW, I wouldn't sweat the tooth thing unless you took it from a burial site and you realized that was the case. That is a no-no as you likely know. No souvenirs from graves.

[Savage1!]

It's not from a burial site, that I know. The tooth looks exactly like a child's tooth that a child lost when their adult teeth come in. Unfortunately, I'm not a tooth fairy and it is a bit too late lol.

[Hal Gorges]

Welcome from Florida Mike..it certainly looks like you know how to find em..cool collection...

[Hoss]

welcome to arrowheads.com forum pages

[antmike915]

Welcome from Georgia

[Old Toad]

Welcome. You are ground zero for flint artifacts. Have you been to the Flint Ridge Museum yet? Labor Day weekend they usually have a show and sale, mainly new stuff there. I THINK they are having one this year. Have you been to Mrs. Nether's place? There are aboriginal pieces laying mixed in with newly mined stuff.

[Savage1!]

I went to flint ridge back in the late 90s found a big white scraper which is posted in my pictures. I plan on going again this fall to the nethers farm. Hopefully next weekend I'll have time to explore an area a few miles from my house where to streams emerge. A friend of mine found a Clovis point five miles from home close to a stream. He said it was a camp site.

[Savage1!]

These are my Ohio finds before I got back into the hobby again. I moved to Ohio in 92', so these were found around 94 or 95 estimate.

[Savage1!]

The upper mercer knife was found a few years ago in the creek I was hunting in recent. The rest are from the mid nineties.

[SDhunter]

Welcome