Ohio river hunt. Flagpole tip?

bblaha

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I detected a park directly up a small hill from the Ohio river and found trash and 6 cents in clad. Decided to detect the shores of the river and the amount of trash was crazy but I found a broken spoon, my first and a lead sinker. Also eyeballed a pretty cool fossil and this coke bottle. The last object appears to me to be the tip of a flag pool? I'm gonna post it in what is it as well. Thanks for looken
 

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Seeing that river pic makes me hungry for some catfish....Maybe some better finds next trip...congrats though on you first spoon/utensil handle....and the fossil.....
 

Clean that sink young man...LOL Nice finds. I keep digging up beer and old pop cans that ring in as a dime on my F2 gets on my nerves sometime. HH
 

Was that coke bottle easily on the surface?
 

I'd make a WAG that the mystery item is a log pike tip. Found along a river where logs may have been rafted up and floated leads to that thought.
 

Seeing the river Bank makes me want to walk it looking for Arrowheads........................HH
 

Here's what I think your find is.........

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Used almost exclusively in the fur trade period, these tips allowed a prolonged life to poles that were used to navigate through the rapids on river systems. Still used at some remote northern canoe routes.
If I recall, the Ohio river is quite historic and would have seen a lot of fur trade and Indian activity.
I've found a few myself on a historic river route.
Cool find! :icon_thumright:
Cheers,
Dave.
 

Thanks for the replies everyone. And thanks for the I.d. This is the only fur trade item iv ever found that gets me excited
 

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