Found in garden today...better than any coin

[Deerhunter24]

Can't believe I found this. I started a garden a few days ago with my mom. We've been working in lately, tilling it up a lot, since we've never had a garden before. Most of our property is gravel, but we do live along a river and there is some very good soil.

This area is rocky, but has a lot of good topsoil in it.

I haven't posted any detecting finds the past few weeks (I'll do this later).

Anyway, the area that I live in is said to be the area of an old Native American settlement from years ago. I commented to my mother yesterday when we were pulling rocks out of the garden...I said, "Wouldn't it be awesome to find an Indian Arrowhead in here?" Of course, she said yes.

Well, today that's exactly what I found. A REAL INDIAN ARROWHEAD.

Here are the picks. The top is broke off (I'm guessing the last half inch or so), but its almost 2 inches long.

Here are the pictures. I've scanned a picture of each side.

I'm simply ecstatic though. Goes along good with the 1885 and 1893 Indianhead Pennies that I pulled from the ground on Wednesday.

 

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[Deerhunter24]

Centsfladigger...the last pic you posted appears to be the exact same type of stone that mine is made from. Do you know what kind of rock it is? Chuck

 

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[Ohio_Doug]

I really don't know much about the points, since these are the first that I found. But are you guys sure that this arrowhead was made before the bow? Is it not the kind of arrowhead that went on an arrow? And for sure...is it something that is more than likely over 200-300 years old? Thanks for your help. Chuck.

Deerhunter24, there is no doubt that your point is thousands of years old. The later points that were used on arrow shafts were much much smaller and lighter. What you have is a spear point, like centfladigger mentioned, an atlatl was used to throw these points at a tremendous rate of speed. However, the atlatl was used throughout the Archaic time period until the bow was introduced in the woodland/ fort ancient period around 700AD thru 1500AD