Late 1700s Native American homesite

[GaRebel1861]

Despite an on and off rain this past Saturday, I was able to locate and hunt a late 1700's Native American home site. We located it in a field and the only indication of it on the surface were very small pieces of pottery and a couple shards of black glass. The site contained a lot of cut pieces of brass and some square nails. In the mix, I was able to recover a few copper rolled arrowheads, a flat button, a small buckle and a few musket balls. The two other items pictured I believe to be gun furniture off the muskets they had.

 

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[huntsman53]

Awesome finds and saves! Congrats!

 

[Raider19962]

Rolled copper arrowheads! That's a new one for me.

 

[Grizz12]

Rolled copper arrowheads! That's a new one for me.

Me too

 

[GaRebel1861]

Rolled copper arrowheads! That's a new one for me.

The natives here would trade for copper kettles and cut them into pieces and make arrowheads which were better than the stone ones. They are fairly hard to come by because they were in use for such a short period of time.

 

[DetectingGodlikeOnOlympus]

The contact period Indian stuff is always very interesting to me. The fact that you found musketballs as well as rolled copper arrowheads really illustrates the confluence of two different cultures.

When I am lucky enough to encounter contact period stuff out west I always keep all the broken brass bits in with the easily identifiable stuff. It shows how much fabrication went on in an Indian camp. In some of the displays, the fragments of brass kettle scrap far outnumber the obvious and identifiable artifacts, but that's the nature of the beast.

Stellar finds!

 

[Grizz12]

The natives here would trade for copper kettles and cut them into pieces and make arrowheads which were better than the stone ones. They are fairly hard to come by because they were in use for such a short period of time.

I thought they made them in similar shape and style as their flint heads, not like the European bodkin style

 

[Relicific]

That’s a great hunt

 

[GaRebel1861]

I thought they made them in similar shape and style as their flint heads, not like the European bodkin style

I have seen flat ones as well. These here we refer to as cone points. There is one flat one in the picture I posted beside the cones.

 

[RustyGold]

Awesome finds. I really like the Native American stuff.

 

[Yak1366]

Very nice finds, Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer finds, congratulations!

 

[A2coins]

Awesome artifacts Id be all over that spot Well done

 

[Kona Koma]

Very interesting. Great finds.

 

[lairmo]

Well done GaRebel1861!!!!

 

[Lunch Bag]

Amazing finds especially the rolled arrowhead.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[fyrffytr1]

Y'all had a great day. I wish I could have been there.

 

[civilman1]

That's sick my man!!!

 

[Tony in SC]

The copper points are great !! They go beyond what we usually find. They come from a notch in history most don't know about. The only one I have ever found crumbled in my hands.