Metal detecting for METEORITES (crazy finds)
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*Should I go back out to the middle of the desert and look for more?? 🤠🌠
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Of course you should!! :-)
Absolutely
Oui bien sûr, mais attention au cowboys lol
Hell to the yeah you should!
Friggin A right!
Nora, it is not only what you do but the sense of wonder and enjoyment that you bring to your adventures that make this old man smile. Keep on treking.
The 22 cartridges with a "U" headstamp were made by Union Metallic Cartridge Company. They are probably over 100 years old. UMC merged with Remington Arms in 1912.
The cartridge was invented in 1884.Those cases are probably not that old since I was shooting the same type ammunition in the 1990s.
Cool info on the head stamps
@@toddwelch1518 I took a second look and I think your right and I was wrong. Sorry. I think her small fingers deceived me.
It also should be said that they are 22 caliber not 22 millimeter
@@lambastepirate and 22 caliber is .22 inches in diameter
Jeep should send you a nice big fat check because those shots were better than any Jeep commercial I've seen.
Haha thank you Max!! I doubt they'll see the video though 😅
:) I was wondering how the white jeep is so clean after driving it out over all the sand and dirt! I think there might be a car wash just out of frame.
Nora, I just started MD'ing this summer with a Equinox 800 i bought from Kelly Co as well. I found them to have great customer service which is huge in this day and age of outsourced services. I love that you are out detecting and exploring new areas. If you don't already own or know about the Garmin inreach satellite communicators please do yourself a favor and research or buy one. As you know when travelling the globe or just out detecting/exploring many areas in the USA have no cell service to call/text someone in case of emergency. This device via the Iridium Satellite global network allows you to two-way text, track & share GPS location with family/friend or in a serious emergency trigger an interactive "SOS" that goes to a global response center who will help coordinate help/rescue. I'm not sponsored nor do i work for this company. the device once owned does require a subscription but the cheapest plans are affordable. Have a Great 2021.
Yeah they really so have wonderful customer service! You're right I should definitely invest in one of those incase something happens and I'm in the middle of nowhere 😬 I'll hop on Amazon right now, thank you! 😊
Hi Nora, your gun buddy here😊So, as you guessed, those were . 22 rimfire cases, and you found a couple of "live" cartridges that were still in tact with bullet and gunpowder still in them. The reason they we're on the ground is that they were "misfires", where the gun had been fired but the cartridge did not ignite and because . 22 rimfire ammunition is so inexpensive, the shooter just threw it to the ground.
The "U" on the bottom of the brass case stands for "United", short for "" United Metallic Cartridge" (Remington's ammunition manufacturing branch).
Keep up the great videos and be safe! 😄
Wow so cool, thank you for the information. Is it possible for these live rounds to be set off?😄
@@NoraSvet YES. They are a sealed cartridge and there is still gun powder inside. They are "live ammo". Don't put them in your carryon when you fly home lol.
I didn't see hammer strikes on the backs of those two cartridges in the video. You may be right though... 22 LR rimfire is notoriously unreliable. I think it's more lazy, clumsy shooter/s who just didn't care and left them on the ground because they're so inexpensive and/or it was at night and they just didn't bother searching for them. Might also be someone like me that won't feed a round that's been in the dirt into my weapons. Don't want to chance the issues and damage that can arise from feeding and firing rounds like that.
@@NoraSvet Hi Nora, without being punctured in a specific way on the bottom of the case, they are of very little danger. Don't, however, throw them into a fire😊
@@theshootindutchman Uh, throwing 22 ammo in the fire is fun though, just run away a little ways :) They are pretty easy to pull the lead bullet out and dump out the powder though, then there's just the primer which isn't very dangerous at all.
If there's a dent on the side then most likely there was a ftf or failure to feed where the fired casing didn't eject and the gun tried to force the new round in and dented the side. Those I usually try to get to feed into the chamber again and they normally fire and eject just fine. If I happen to lose it in the dirt then they are cheap so I only search a little bit before giving up.
At least you didn't need to worry about getting the drone stuck in a tree again.
lollll I was thinking the exact same thing while flying it 😄
It doesn't matter if you're on land or underwater your videos and finds are amazing! Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing! 😀
Nora! Aren't arrowheads the most awesome thing to find?! Btw, the little pieces that look like arrowhead material are called churt. It literally litters most of California from the days of our native ancestors. Great idea Nora! 👍👍
Cool finds, especially the arrow head! I imagine that area has been picked over quite thoroughly for meteorites.
Nice first arrowhead, i was hooked when i found my first one
Thank you! Same here😄
Check river gravel bars in native areas, you'll have better luck
Where I live you can walk behind our house and pick up old pottery and arrow heads… we live in a civil war town… most of our town is a state park where a lot of battles during the civil war took place…Not long ago where my mom and dad’s house is, there is what we thought was a little pond.. come to find out it wasn’t a pond at all.. it was a battery that was dug in.. it was known as new fort… But before we knew what it was ,we found cannon balls… pieces of cannon… belt buckles… sword pieces.. a complete sword… and much more… not sure why I haven’t seen your content before but I love what you do and it’s truly amazing a bright young lady doing this hobby as well..hope your finds are plentiful… and good hunting…
Loved your reaction to finding your first arrowhead. Glad we could share the experience with you!
Thanks Scott! 🙂
@@NoraSvet arrow heads are made using bone and rock tools. You can find many videos on it..
35 years ago I found my only arrowhead in Northern Minnesota. It was made from quarts. I was teaching canoeing to challenged teens 6 hours a day. So I was always checking out agates. And a all white stone caught my eye.
Did you keep the smooth stone?
One edge of the stone appears to have many little flakes taken out to create a serrated edge.
The smooth top appears to have had some wide flat flaks lapped off. If this rock was used to scrape material off the inside of a hide. It would have been warn smooth. "Scrapper"
If you have it. Please show at the end of your next video. If not. Go back and get it :)
People have searched for 80-100 years for the Meteor at the bottom of that impact crater. The latest theory is that it all evaporated because the impact was so intensely hot.
Did you get to the booth of the crater? We went down there 8 years ago. Probably closed because of Covid.
The other person was correct. The arrow head could be very old
Nice find.
My other cool find was in the Great Sand Dune national park.
It was a inch long hollow tube of sand. Maybe a quarter inch diameter. The ranger said probably made by lightning hitting the sand.
Keep up the nice videos. They are a joy to watch
As a meteorite collector I have to tell you that these weren't meteorites. Canyen diabolo meteorites look completely different. Cut open one of the stones, if there is metal then polish and etch it. If lines appear on the surface then it is really a meteorite. The safest way to be sure. Look in google there you will find loads of pictures.
But the arrowhead is an absolute beauty.
I think the smeller super magnetic one is for sure but I'm going to have them looked at.. still learning 😄 I do want to get a rock cutter like you said cause I've been dying to see what's inside the bigger one 🙂
Greetings from Flagstaff, look like you were out playing close to me! There is a lot of arrowheads around this area
Oh awesome!! But it's soooo cold there I couldn't believe the temperature difference😄
Isn’t she awesome? We have to tell her to stay in Az. Lol
@@staticlip1 you know Flagstaff IS in Arizona right?
Tell me why this would be such a great Jeep commercial! Awesome video and finds!!
Haha thank you Olga!😊
wow that arrow head find is amazing, coolest thing yet
But, be very careful about advertising you collected an arrowhead from Government Lands (vdougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/is-it-legal-to-collect-arrowheads-on-federal-land/ ) It could cost you 10 years of your life.
Found this channel about a month ago trying to catch up. I've fell in love with Nora and the 5 star videos she shares. Please keep sharing and I will buy some merch.
Obsidian and flint stone = arrowheads. :) I have a theory about that crater... Thanks for the video! You rock!
Also a stone called "chert" was used to make arrowheads; wooden and metallic specimens have also been found. :D
Just love watching you metal detecting . You are so pleasant to listen to . Thank you so much.
Thank you Mark, glad you enjoy it! 😊
I love waking up and seeing you have uploaded a video another epic adventure to wake up too. Thankyou Nora ❤
Музиката в началото на клипа е супер Норче 😉,наблягай на повече такава 😇
The U Hi Speed cartridge casing dates back to the 1940's.
Wow, very cool! 😃
I found your feed on my feed and I liked it! So I'm going to follow you and learn about you and your adventures! Thank you for sharing!!!
Looking at how big that place is, to find an arrow head is amazing. Great job
Thanks Bobby!😃
Great video, Nora. Yes, most meteors are primarily iron and nickel, though there could be other metals as well. Your detector will "detect" all metals but all metals will not attract to a magnet, only ferrous metals as in iron. The others that your unit found could be nickel, or other alloys.
Magnetite is not magnetic either
Wonder if it would pick up unknown metals
Nora the point you picked up I couldn’t tell because you didn’t hold it still long enough but looked to be a miniature Clovis point if so pretty valuable ! Love your channel great job , be careful out and about hope you have someone with you when you go out to these remote places , stay safe !!!
Yeah, I definitely agree; not safe for her to be there by herself! She should at least have an AR-15 with her.
Well to me it doesnt look clovis other than roughly the shape but most importantly, you should not sell any arrowhead found. Bad juju to make money off arrowheads
It's Nora --- the Explorer !! Having fun ... and fun to watch. I live in southern Utah and should be going out with my metal detector to have some fun.
22 cal bullets, if I had $1 for every one I found... 😂
Loved the sunset footage and congrats on the arrow head mate!
I thought they were bigger than .22 but maybe she has tiny fingers that make it appear so???
@@williambrandondavis6897 they look a similar size in my hands 😂
Thanx 4 takin us . Great finds ! . Look out near those critter dens .
Great finds, great with the Kellyco equipment. All I use.
Thanks George! 😃
As always beautiful camera work awesome video would like to see you find more meteorites Congratulations on your new detector and thanks for your effort as always.🙂
Nice arrowhead! Awesome! BTW: just because a rock will stick to a magnet doesn’t make it a meteorite. It might be a “meteor-wrong”.
You're right! I need to find an expert to have them examined but I don't know where🤔😊
@@NoraSvet Easy. Some University Geology Department. Maybe a really good rock/lapidary/mineral specialty shop. There are a few video series of guys hunting and finding meteorites and having them evaluated. To really tell I think they have to cut a slab off the thing. Look up “Meteorite Men” for vids on hunting. Pretty entertaining if you’re into it.
@@NoraSvet facebook.com/groups/isitameteorite/
Haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaa!!!!
Could be Hematite.
Such a great video for my first introduction to your channel. Great find with the obsidian arrowhead! Keep it metal, I love it! 🤟
Theres lots of magnetite out there. Real meteors have a melted crust around them.
And magnetite can be magnetic or not depending on its exposure to such things as lightening.
Your face has crust around it 😝 she’s perfect and everything she finds is what she says it is
not all "real meteors" have crust on them. Since meteors commonly break apart when they impact you get just as many clean pieces as pieces with earth crust on them.
@@jerryparks9568 True, but an amateur cannot tell them from any other rock and any expert will tell you they see far more not meteorites than meteorites brought in.
@@jerryparks9568 that may be the case but if youre trying to make the case for a prospective buyer... better have that crust!
The arrowhead is obsidian. Volcanic glass. Nice find! Arizona is full of copper ores, that one rock that didn't stick to the magnet but had a signal on the metal detector could be that.
Woahh that makes sense cause that mountain in the background of some of the shots is actually a volcano!😮😃
@@NoraSvet Volcanos can bring up all kinds of things from beneath the earth, gold, diamonds, iron and obsidian.
that arrowhead looks like a dalton or clovis. You have possibly found something that was made 8 to 12000 years ago.
Wow that's amazing! I can't believe it wasn't buried after all those years 😮
I make arrow heads, flint napping it's called... it's not twelve thousand, perhaps not even a thousand... or it would have been covered by dirt, dust,
@@KenSilvers the desert preserves excellent and this is the rain, snow season for arizona. I have found very old points on the desert floor baking in the sun in idaho and colorado and new mexico that were that old or older. your dust theory is not adding up dude. Looks like a dalton. I would love to see better photo's of it.Both sides.
@@KenSilvers show me a late archaic point that doesn't have a stem. With my limited knowledge on the subject it appears from the style of the point that its atleast a few thousand years old if not 8 to 10. It might even be a clovis as not all clovis points were fluted. I have seen several in museums that were not.
@@gameoverlord8012 Did you mean to say Clovis or Glovis?
What an awesome day trip.
A meteorite AND an arrowhead.
Very nice.
The live rounds you found are .22 caliber, modern ammunition.
Ohhhh darn...😐 was hoping they were old cowboy bullets 😆
They're 22mm cowboy bullets. I lmao. That was so cute.
@@snakeplissken3021 22 millimeter would be close to an inch in diameter!
@@PeteHemdem 😂😂😂
The rounds are .22 caliber long rifle. That round was designed in 1884. They most likely are not that old but I wouldn't be surprised if they are at least 20 years old
How lucky can you be Nora,
Spotting the arrow tip just lying on the ground, amazing find
Thanks for sharing ATB 👊
Nora, Wow, where's everyone at? Lol, that's a creepy area to be all alone and no body around. Sure is beautiful there. Just be safe, OK. Love you, Donnie- WV
I'm from Logan big difference from where we are from aye? So flat and desolate looking compared to all the trees and green at home. :) Thanks for taking us out Nora :)
@@timelordmagnums357 Yes, It is definitely different from our State of West Virginia. I'm from Berkeley County in the Panhandle area between Maryland and Virginia state lines. Take care.
9:32 Love your white cloth displaying the arrowhead and modern ammo remnants; kind of like an "old vs. new" collection of hunting/weaponry-tech. :D
Haha I didn't even see it until now! Thanks Fred 😊
As expensive as ammo is these days, those live rounds were probably your most valuable find
LOL no kidding
Loved the video. Way to go spotting the arrowhead! Most likely there are more around there. Enjoying all your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Good to see you've taken social distancing seriously with that location, cool arrowhead it's likely very old indeed.
Libs concerned..... I love it
Afraid she might catch the flu?
Hi Nora. Love your videos. Here is a book that I highly recommend on Meteorites. "Rocks from Space" by O. Richard Norton. A lot of information on how to find and how to identify meteorites. Good luck and keep your coil to the soil.
Excellent book, good recommendation!
All the rocks that are black are shock rocks surface melted and blown out from the impact and some are surface infused with molten metal from the meteor.
So cool! 😃
Awesome find on what definitely looked like an Arrowhead! Imagine the history of that.
Still disgusting how we all find discarded trash wherever we go, even remote trials, backcountry hiking, climbing, biking, kayaking, scuba diving… really horrible how so many people just don’t care.
Love your videos… great work. 🍻
do you realize tha your arrow head is betwean 6 and 10 thousand years old. Great find.
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Yeah super cool!! 😃
I LOVE the deserts of Utah and Arizona where I’ve lived most of my life. Always cool places to explore and cool rocks, etc. to find!
You are still fun to watch, even when you’re not in a bikini. Love your videos!
Loved your desert hunt Nora. Try to fellow you when I can. Thanks for your videos. Am disabled veteran and do not get about very well.
Thank you for your service!!!
I always enjoy your videos and I think the last two are the best yet! Your love of adventure, excitement of the find and sense of humour come through loud and clear. Keep it up, and more mountain biking!
Thanks so much! Glad you're enjoying the videos 😊
What an awesome video. I would love to see more dry land hunts.
Nice finds! Your arrow point is called a Clovis point one of the oldest styles and looks to be made of obsidian which is volcanic glass or basalt that is also volcanic material. Good luck on your future hunts. Cheers!👍
So cool! Makes sense cause there's a volcano not too far from this location. Thanks Brian!😃
A lot of meteorites will pull a compass off course,iron ore is sometimes magnetic, where you are look for gold nuggets.
Cowboys actually used a lot of weapons seen towards the end of the civil war such as percussion firearms(black powder) and single shot breech loaders with paper cartridges(black powder). Weapons that used brass cased cartridges(black powder) weren't popular until the mid-end of the 1800s. You probably found some old 22lr cases from decades ago... You can google the head stamps to find out more.
The hi speed ones can date back to the 1930s
The U is Remington
HP is Hirtenberger Patronen
HV is Peters High Velocity
Super X is Winchester
I hoped that helped a bit
Oh awesome! This definitely helps, thank you so much 😃
Looks like the area near Flagstaff, AZ. We go to the area some but haven't made it yet. Love the video.
Im enjoying watching you explore around these areas, the west has so many types of treasures , your doing a great job at working your way through the land finding its secrets, nice arrowhead ! there are some great minerals every where out there, lots of books on public sites and you tube vids of course, many with actual drive up and collect locations, you got lots of fire agate, fossils, tourmaline, quartz crystals ect. all around you. Rock on !!
Glad you're enjoying the videos! That's so cool I'll definitely look into those areas. I actually just got book with maps of places to collect so I can't wait to see what I'll find 😊
That was awesome footage Nora, great finds and we will see you on the next one 👌🤙👊
What an amazing place, great to see you venture outside the water too
No way! What an amazing place. Most people would say there's nothing cool to find in a desert but you have proof the opposite. Loved that arrow head! 👍🏻🙂
Hi Federico, there's always something cool to find no matter where you go 😉
Първото е метеорит, огледай за затопявания по ъглите , също си отваряй очите за кристали по тях още по-скъпи са. 😉👍🏻👍🏻
Glad to see you doing a dry ground video.
The underwater ones are nice, but the out of water ones are the ones that people will most likely have more in common with.
Well done 👍!
Very true! I'll do much more out of water ones this year 😃
Nora, that arrowhead is likely made of a flint material. You can learn a lot about this by visiting the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument between Amarillo and Fritch, TX. Yes, that's the Fritch that the "Tater" Ron White is from. Native cultures acquired flint from those quarries for over 13,000 years.
That is a nice arrowhead! Awesome find! The bullet casings with the U are fairly old.
Some of that metal could have been slag, melted and expelled from the ground by the heat of the impact? That wouldn't be magnetic.
"Just a piece of chipped rock" could be a flake from making stone tools - as old as the arrow head perhaps, but the part they discarded when making something?
That arrow point could be Clovis or Folsom, hard to tell. Both have no 'tang' but instead a dent at the bottom for a split arrow shaft to go around.
not a clovis
there is no flute
@@norcalmatt1 Yeah you're right. So what is it?
@@joealtmaier9271 im a little rusty to call it off the top of my head, id have to look it up but the missing flute was a dead give away that it wasnt clovis. i have the noel d. justice book and can look in to it
@@joealtmaier9271 ive been looking in the noel justice book.....not sure what it is....looks like it could be humboldt cluster (unnamed)
Beautiful scenery great finds. Thanks Nora.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
You need a Neo Magnet, a large thick n52, put it on a pole, you have a magnetite ball, its a naturally magnetic mineral so it works but get yourself a n52 on a pole for your hunts. it will really help you out :)
.22 caliber is 0.22" You can see they are rimfire, meaning the firing pin strikes the edge, as you can see. The larger ones are center fire. Check it out!
Miss Nora : Old treasure guy here . 50 years swinging a machine. Had to take a break 6 mo for total knee replacement .like to have gone crazy. Love ur channel and your spirit.
Thank you Michael! Hope you can get back out there soon and find some amazing things 😊🤞
Nora you can have the rocks assayed, you can either ask for gold and silver fire assay or get a scan of many minerals.the more they scan for the more it costs.Good Luck
We love the drone footage! Great video!
Very cool Nora! Lovely desolate spot, very similar looking to the Karoo semi arid desert here in central South Africa ...
Totally cool. Very fun thank you 👍😎❤️
What was found was that the stone was very good and good for health, suitable for making bracelets to improve blood circulation because the stone contained magnets ... 👍👍
The empty casings are called casings and the unfired cartridges are called cartridges not bullets.The bullet is the lead projectile seated in the casing. It is doubtful that It was a cowboy that was firing them. It was probably someone shooting cans or rocks. I have fired many many U stamped caliber .22's (.22 caliber not millimeter }. I am not 100 years old,,,yet.
I am really enjoying your videos. Thank you for making them.
Could you do a vid on permissions for various search locations and things to be mindful of? Love the videos!
Always an important thing to consider.
Very cool arrowhead. The pieces you found are probably debris from the big strike.....and I like the jeep.
You'd think every last bit of that meteorite had been long picked. Another cool inspiring video. Now I want a white Jeep...
Hi Nora. FYI, .22 cal meaning a diameter of.22 of an inch (Approx 5.5mm.) Most were 22LR(Long Rifle). These days you will also find .22 Short and 22 Magnum. Difference is cartridge length and therefore, size of powder charge. 22 mm would be considered a cannon. Many Military planes and anti aircraft guns fire 20mm. Cheers
Interesting. I've never thought to watch out for meteorites pieces. Good find on the arrowhead, I'm sure someone as already mentioned it but flint was often used to make arrowheads. Not sure what yours is made of as the Native Americans used a few different materials. The flint was carried across the continent for both arrowhead making a bartering.
The shell casings are 22 rimfire, not super old. The small pieces of chipped rock could be small scrapers of nat am making.
Cool adventure. I've just started watching your channel and haven't been disappointed yet 😁. A wide variety of locations keep it interesting. I'm not sure if you've said where you live, but you have access to some beautiful locations.
I wouldn't have thought of metal detecting for meteorites. Actually finding one 👍. The arrowhead was definitely the best find. The bullets and casings were all 22 caliber, or 0.22 inches which is about 5.6mm.
Great adventure, so awesome that you travel and enjoy this beautiful planet we live on !! Keep smiling and thank you for taking us along , my daughter really admires your skills snd talent🌞🌸 great filming as well 🌞
Thank you so much! Will do🙂
In Canada we call them arrowheads. Usually flint is chipped to create the arrowhead. Good find and video. Thanks!
What an Awesome adventure, I went there on my way to Cali a long time ago. I hunted just a little for Meteorites but didn't have any equipment to assist in my hunt. I have always wanted even a small one, if you want to sell any of them I would love to have one. Likely never going to get a chance to go there again. WOW that is an Awesome arrowhead you found too. You would be crazy not to go back to such an amazing beautiful place, having the chance to grab up anything from out of this world is just priceless.
Great arrowhead find! I wonder how old it is. I can only imagine the user of said arrowhead. Too cool. You're fun to watch!
Thanks Fred, glad you enjoyed! I was also trying to picture the person using it 🙂
Congratulations on your finds fun-times! 😃👍💕♥️
That is an awesome area. If you haven't had the chance go and visit 2nd Mesa on the Hopi reservation. Awesome place to visit. The hole you saw was quite possibly a badger (mean little suckers). You were also close to the Apache Death Cave as well. The smaller burrow was probably a pac rat. The smooth thing you found was a spall which is a piece that is taken off the host rock.
Thanks Nora for another fun hunt! Even Even if you didn’t find anything, the adventure and the sunset would’ve been worth it! Keep them coming....
6:25 Well, Nora, if that rock is one of the types commonly used for arrowheads like flint or obsidian, it might indeed be the same material as arrowheads. :D
Very Nice finds Nora, all the best to you, keep up the good work, Nice landscapes
Just so happens you were here right before our first big snow. (I live in Flagstaff). The shiny black flakes of rocks and the arrowhead are both obsidian or volcanic glass. The mountains around Flagstaff are all dormant or extinct volcanoes and the obsidian was formed by rapid cooling of certain types of the extrusive lava that came from the volcanoes. This obsidian can be found in archaeological sites all across north America. It was a valuable trade item and resource for the indigenous people. The flakes and pieces are called lithics and believe it or not they were all tools, not as fancy as the arrowhead but they made for fine scrapers and blades. Now to the arrowhead. A nice find indeed. Anywhere from 300 to 1300 years old' It may even be a spear point as most true arrowheads are really small. These desert people were hunter gatherers and ate pretty much ate anything they could get there hands on. Insects, lizards. rodents .snakes, small birds and rabbits made up most of there hunted diet with the occasional deer or antelope mixed in. These people are still here in north Arizona to this day. We now know them as the Hopi, Zuni, Havasupai and Hualapai tribes. They all have a rich culture and a direct tie to the ancient person that made the point you found.
So enough with the facts how about we delve into the story of that special piece of rock that came into your life. Approximately 1 million years ago it was ejected out of an erupting volcano and came to rest somewhere in the vicinity. For the next 999,200 years it lay untouched as the volcanos stopped erupting and climates changed and humans first came to the continent. Eventually as people made there way into the desert south west recourses like obsidian were discovered ,collected, traded and cherished. Now let's say 800 years ago someone either trade for or discovered and collect the rock that the point is made of. It would have been a sizeable piece of rock and an integral part of there tool kit. These large chunks of obsidian are know as cores. By keeping the core intact they were able to make tools when needed. At some point this person decided to invest their time and energy into making an actual projectile point to add to there repertoire of tools. These carved points were valuable and not just left behind haphazardly. Eventually the day came when our hunter gatherer was resented with the opportunity to acquire a possible meal and decided to use this point probably attached to a small wooden shaft and thrown like a spear. After hours of patiently waiting, observing and possibly stalking, the time was right and the hunter made his move launching the point at let's say a jackrabbit. After finding it's mark the point was finally on its way to the place where you discovered it. The point was possibly dislodged from the rabbit as it ran away and was lost to our hunter friend as he tried to locate his prey following only a faint blood trail and prints.
For the next 799 years it lay where you found it as Europeans arrived in North America, wars were lost and won and the United states came into being with all of it's advancements and achievements and set backs. Finally the universe conspires and you find yourself freezing in the high desert of northern Arizona holding a connection to a million years of history in your hand. The exhilaration and wonder consume you. The wow factor is off the charts. I am glad you found this little carved rock and I am glad you kept it but it does come with some responsibilities. You see, this point has not yet finished it's journey. I t is now up to you to share this little treasure with others so that they may also get to experience the wonder and joy you found upon discovering it. This point is a connection with all of humanity which is vital for our survival as a species. Tell it's story, keep it in the present and not locked away in some dusty drawer or box and one day bring it back to northern Arizona so that it can finish it's purpose and possibly even be found by someone else creating new connections and joy. You will be surprised at how good giving such a thing back to the land can feel. I used to keep everything I found until I realized that I was denying anyone else of experiencing that feeling of discovery and connection. I once asked a Hopi elder what he did when he found an artifact and he said that he would stop and engage with the object and feel the connection with his ancestors and nature. For him an arrowhead is a literal and spiritual connection with his family and people.
Once again I am so glad you found and kept this special rock and I hope that having learned it's story you will realize what a special treasure it is. In the future I hope you will find that the experience and connection are far more valuable than the collection and ownership of these little pieces of history.
I love your channel and keep up the good work.
P.S. Check out raftarizona.com no metal detecting but plenty of waterfalls and swimming holes full of lost treasure.
P.S.x2 this the longest comment I have ever written and I hope it makes a difference.
Wow Kenneth, thank you for this awesome comment! I could picture everything as I was reading it and even got goosebumps. The journey of this little piece is truely amazing if you think about it and I would have never thought that far back if I hadn't read your comment. I don't know if I'll be able to give this one up since it was my first but I can definitely try in the future. I'm thinking to make a necklace out of it or something similar cause I would never want it to collect dust in a drawer like you said. Welcome to the channel if you're new and I hope to read more awesome things from you in the future.😃👍
Your cooler than a fan on high! I’ve been metal detecting twice and found nothing good. But where I live there’s rope swings everywhere. It’s lake life around here. Now gotta get diving equipment 😀
At 6:40 my understanding is that pack rats line their nests with cactus spikes to keep out predators. They do it in abandon mines all the time.
The Little Rock chips that look similar to the projectile point are likely “chert”, the leftover material from making projectile points. That spot could be a pre-historic site.
a nice little trip in the desert. I have always wanted to find an arrowhead. Great job
arrowheads were made from obsidian...sharper than a razor or glass :) I once found two M60 machine guns in the desert of Utah, had them in my hands and was going to take them and decided not to, as I was in military boundaries (Dugway Proving Grounds)...love what your doing, so cool
btw- they made arrowheads by chipping using another obsidian piece, hope that helps...smiles
The sunset wasn't the only thing that was beautiful. 👍👋💕