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With all of the nearby farm land giving way to new subdivisions and neighborhoods, remnants to the past lie just underfoot.
In agricultural fields especially where the soil is turned pretty regularly, all over the Triangle, NC and likely the entire East Coast....
The ground is full of arrowheads that were used on bows and arrows to hunt and kill evening dinner.
Fashioned by Native Americans I presume, there are thousands lying in the dirt all over every county nearby.
My father has collected them for ss long as I can remember, and here are a few of the honed tips that would be strapped or pushed into the end of sticks and shot at prey with a bow:
At our farm in Illinois I would always find arrowheads, scrapers, flint pieces, etc. after a heavy rain just laying on top of the soil as if someone placed them there. I'll have to start looking again.
just about any creekside or riverbank has arrowheads imbedded nearby.
rejects/damaged and "junkpile" flintwork is common East of the Mississippi.
(sort of like Indo-European pottery left-overs are numerous across the Atlantic)
bottom line: what i usually find is a Native American trash dump
with a very few examples of intact symmetry or artistry.
Lot of Indians used to live around here, so that's not surprising. Cool artifacts you have there.
Can anyone believe that we allowed this misnomer term to linger as long as it has?
I think my father used to find them in ploughed fields and while hunting in rural counties surrounding the Triangle.
We also used to go (as kids with my Dad) to where the town dump was located during the 1800's to early 1900's and dig up old bottles with cork tops. That was the requirement to keep them.
We still have thousands of old linament bottles and even Listerine bottles that used cork stopper tops.
Any town in NC with an old downtown probably has an old trash dump location nearby with antique bottles 1'-5' feet below the surface. You can get cut, so have a first aid kit or a bottle of whiskey on hand to disinfect any small cut, lol.
Can anyone believe that we allowed this misnomer term to linger as long as it has?
I think my father used to find them in ploughed fields and while hunting in rural counties surrounding the Triangle.
We also used to go (as kids with my Dad) to where the town dump was located during the 1800's to early 1900's and dig up old bottles with cork tops. That was the requirement to keep them.
We still have thousands of old linament bottles and even Listerine bottles that used cork stopper tops.
Any town in NC with an old downtown probably has an old trash dump location nearby with antique bottles 1'-5' feet below the surface. You can get cut, so have a first aid kit or a bottle of whiskey on hand to disinfect any small cut, lol.
I grew up in Charlotte, and our house was on an old Plantation site. We had a neighbor who used to garden (small farm, almost) and he used to turn up old Horse Shoes, Square Nails and such.
When I was even younger, I lived in Western PA and I recall visiting Arrowhead collectors with framed collections like the one in your OP.
That Listerine Bottle is very cool. We've come a long way from that, to having 100's of 64oz, plastic "multi-packs' on the shelf of every chain store. (Long way, not necessarily good or bad.)
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