A few hours in the park - 1919 wheatie & possible arrowhead

[king-ghidorah]

I found some clad and then when I was digging that I came across this strange stone. It looks and feels like an arrowhead. The pics of it where you get a frontal and rear view do not really show the contour of the back. It definitely looks like someone deliberately shaped it. I found it on the hill over looking a small pond. Just as I was finishing up another MD came by and I showed it to him. He didn't think it was one but I beg to differ. I've never seen a natural rock like this before. I might add to that the tip with a little force behind it could pierce into something quite easily.The wheatie is a 1919 which I found near a big old tree near its base. I knew it was old when I saw the patina on the back of it.

 

[Eddie in Poulsbo]

A few hours and only one wheatie? Did you have batteries in your detector? Just giving you a bad time King and all in fun. There has to be some silver there someplace. Not sure if that other thing is a arrow head or what. Take some Pepto-Bismal and hit that park again and let's see some silver.HH.

Eddie

 

[Ray-Mo.]

I have found several hundred arrow heads and from the picture I would say not one.But I hunt in the midwest and points differ a lot by location,Ray.

 

[king-ghidorah]

A few hours and only one wheatie? Did you have batteries in your detector? Just giving you a bad time King and all in fun. There has to be some silver there someplace. Not sure if that other thing is a arrow head or what. Take some Pepto-Bismal and hit that park again and let's see some silver.HH.

Eddie

It was one of those days when I didn't want to leave but I had a prior engagement. The more and more I am using my detector the more and more I see the wisdom of a Sun-ray or Pistol Probe. I'll get one after I get my other machine. Having a probe that can only see an inch into the ground sucks. I can get the AutoMax to get 2" but then it starts becoming unstable.

I'm hitting the park again tomorrow and it's supposed to be 63

 

[Great Republic]

Get an X1.You will never regret it....ever.
I vote not arrowhead Best of luck and HH..
X1

 

[king-ghidorah]

I have an Indian Artifacts book and I just got through looking through it didn't look like any of them so it probably isn't one. :sad:

 

[Chris/MA]

The X-1 is an absolutely wonderful tool to have, and better than the handheld ones for a couple reasons:
1. It's just a small version of a coil, so it can do things only a coil can do, like crosshairs on the screen, and tone ID.
2. Because it allows you to do tone ID, when you're using it in a hole with multiple targets, ie: iron laden yards, you can tell the all the iron targets from each other, and you can tell the good target from the iron targets.
3 . You can't lose the damn thing, it's attached.

I use it on almost every hole I dig.


Also, I think that's probably not an arrowhead. Doesn't seem to have any visible chip marks from working it.
Turns out the thing I found the other day wasn't indian-made either, btw.

 

[JW]

nice finds

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

n/t

 

[nad]

The stone could be a fast arrowhead.It seems to have a taper on opposite sides that would give a twist to the arrow in flight.If there are opposite angles on each side, with that general shape..You got one.That is the third one I know that may have been found digging a signal. cordially NAD

 

[king-ghidorah]

What is a fast arrowhead? it does have a taper and they are opposite angles of each other. If you looking at it straight on with the reverse side facing you this is what you see from the tapers and opposite angles in the pic. The thing looks like it was made intentionally by someone for some purpose. I have never seen a stone like this before.

 

[Reggie]

Although I use a Detectopro PI unit with all my other detectors, the Sunray-1 is the way to go for the Explorer because the Detectopro won't work unless you turn off your Explorer. The Explorer signals in all those myriad frequencies make it impossible for a PI pinpointer to use while the Explorer is turned on. With other detectors in use, the PI goes up to 4", and is a good pinpointer to search for the elusive deep target which has not yet been uncovered. The Sunray works along side the explorer, but the Sunray doesn't have more than half the depth of the Det. Pro. Pinpointer, IMHO.