Copper Spear Point my oldest find of the year.

[water logged]

Went to the river near my home and found a bunch of pull tabs, and a couple tiny copper nuggets, then after a while I headed to the car by way of the ball diamond. My hands were sore and I was tired, so I decided to "cherry pick" the last few minutes, so i only dug dimes, quarters and high toned signals.
After ten minutes of mediocre signals and with the light fading fast from the autumn sky i got one last signal.
Got home and carefully cleaned the crust off and applied a coat of olive oil. This is the second one I've found, maybe tomorrow will make three.

The spearhead measures approximately six inches in length, and was already bent when I pulled it out of the ground, probably a result from the bulldozer that flattened the ball field. I think I'll keep it anyway.

 

[gobble-gobble]

Thats a Real nice find. GREAT SAVE. Whats the est. age ?

 

[Goldstrike]

Some of those very old pieces can be worth a lot of money (I used to be an antique dealer). I would take it to a museum to get an accurate age on it. I once had a battle axe with the heads on kings cast onto it. I didn't have a clue as to what it was age-wise but the local museum gave me a free description and the age of it and I was very pleased with their work! Let us know what they tell you!!

 

[water logged]

Looking on the internet you can find date ranges for north american copper culture from 2000 to 7500 years ago. When i stopped by the gas station, the guy there said we didn't have copper that long ago and it wasn't a spear point. I about hit the floor, you gotta be kidding right? Then it was, how do you know.. Well i found one before.. Na can't be must be something else. Long story short i explained that copper points and tools have been found by people in MI, WI, Ohio and Ontario plus a few other states, and some of the people that live here work in actual iron, and copper mines today.

It's been raining today so i may have to bag the detector for a short hunt.

 

[scubadetector]

All the indians used here are rocks they made look like a peanut so they could tie their nets to them. You can find a lot in the river BUT rocks just do not interest me!!

 

[GunnarMN]

Nice ,