A lot of points are in creeks because, of ambush hunting. Animals always take the path of least resistance. So, the people would wait near the water because the animals would come to them at the water. There were many points lost into the waterways by misses. You are right about the erosion factor but, people did not live on the bank. The people lived on high ground to stay dry but, close so they could get water easily and hunted the lower areas.
Thanks for explaining a bit on erosion and stream/river recovery of artifacts. Pretty cool finding points, blades, pottery and the like. Keep on filming. You have a great channel.
My grandsons 7/9 love your channel. Especially the video with the spirit Indian/Native American after you. They cackled on that one...had to replay it several times for them. Just got started looking for arrowheads/artifacts. Took them yesterday after a 4 foot swell from a 3 inch rain had subsided to about 14 inches depth. All we found on the dry sand/gravel bar were "Indian Beads" (fossils) but everything is a treasure to them...and it gets them into the woods. Going back in a day or two after the flow drops another foot so I/we can really look at the rock bars. Yesterday revealed a ton of freshly rolled, clean rock in the bottom of the creek that - before the rain - was all mossy and hard to discern. Going to try and focus adjacent to flat ground BUT with move to a section directly adjacent to both the flat on one side and the steep / pointed ridges that overlook the creek and have eroded over hundreds of years...right onto the creek bed...on the opposite side. I picture them camping on those ridges, too, as they empty out onto flat ground. Thanks! Rory
Knowing all this, I STILL watch you because of how enjoyable your demeanor is on camera. Love the creek exploration videos you've been doing a bit more than "THE digging spot" videos. Thanks for posting!
That was very interesting! You have a good eye for finding that stuff! One additional factor that's going on here is that surface runoff is vastly greater in post-settlement times than it was in pre-settlement times. That's because the runoff from tilled fields and even from cleared forests is enormously greater than it was when those places were still in their natural states. Typical rivers and creeks in post-settlement times have cut much deeper into their beds than had been the case in the distant past, and there is also far greater bank erosion going on. That's the result of high-flow events occurring far more frequently and in greater volume than was typical in pre-settlement times. My previous career involved examining soils within excavations for construction in all sorts of locations, and when excavations are done within floodplains and even just the bottoms of broad, gently-sloped valleys, there's usually clear evidence of the changes in erosion and/or deposition that have taken place in post-settlement times as compared to what was happening earlier. Erosion of the banks and bottoms of creek channels always took place, and it followed the same "rules" as what we see today, but the volume of soil that is being moved by streams is many times greater in modern times than it ever was in the distant past.
👍 I can picture a Woodland period native picking up a fine Clovis point and feeling like he won the lottery. I wonder what did run through their minds about ages of different artifacts they found. That little arrow you found is an anomaly.
@@revengeoftheriddler I’m sure they knew it came from earlier people but no way to know how old. With no records, I figure 3 or 4 generations later, it was forgotten.
I live close to Floyds Fork creek in Bullitt Co, KY and i've hunted on gravel bars that look just like where you are. I find a lot of fossils (ancient small clams small marine life), but I've never found a point. I always surface hunt, maybe I should dig some. Good video, glad to see you're still out and about.
my situation may be a lot like yours, i live close to Baker's Fork creek in Southern ohio, close to Serpent Mound, & i have those gravel/sand bars too....i'm making a shaker now & am planning on sifting them....i've found 6 arrowheads & 2 scrapers on my property but now will try the creek...
One other thing I always looked for when I was younger was a rivulet in the bank wshing down from the level field above. These usually form in floods and heavy rain run offs over the years and sometimes they are full of good stuff like a fruitcake full of candied fruit.
Scott: Just yesterday, I was wondering when you would publish another vid. I know, winter has been a little rough. Good to see you again, bud. Have a good one. Enjoyed it! We have had a couple big/hard rains this winter. I need to walk the two branches, crossing my place. Who knows what I will find. Good motivation video.
Your explanation makes sense. I'm also inclined to believe that ancient people hunted near the creeks, because animals frequent the creek banks for water. Then they get shot at.
Honestly I felt like this video was just for my old artifacts hunting self , I walk a stream just like yours on my brother’s property I learned so much - the part about the gravel beds being constantly re worked by the water … that hit me ! There’s like seven gravel bars in his stream, and I have not thought to go back and look at them after several rains -I feel like such a goober !! Thanks for that tidbit Waters high down here in Arkansas too Emma Watson …. She don’t believe a word you say Clegg …. But she says Hey 👋
Great video and channel. You made a great point at the end. Expedient tools are common but often overlooked. Over the years I've learned At some of these sites the textbooks offer little help.
Our farm was over one hundred years old and at one time was monstrous but the sold most of it before my parents bought it The farm used to be around a river that went into a lake and was a summer camp for whatever tribe was living there. They had boxes of old arrowheads and a bunch of semi-good ones were in frames. Generally the bad ones would be the ones that would be laying around. I'm sure if anyone had done any digging they would have found a lot more stuff but the only digging we did was plowing the only field left which was only twenty acres. The rest of the old farm was planted Christmas Trees owned by a family a few miles down the road. Those trees gotta be all gone by now it's been thirty years since we lived there and none of the grandkids were field workers.
There you are!! I was just hoping you didn't take the entire winter off there!! I recall many frigid wintry days during my four years at WVWC but then there were the nice breaks and Audra State Park with terrain and streams just yours there and 'hot' mid-winter days often well into the 60s! Jim C,
theres a creek right beside my house that i walk down quite a bit in the summer, havnt found anything beside those old green class coke bottles and loads of pericline Nickle mason lids. maybe one day! Good finds man!
Keep looking! About 20 years ago my wife found a spear point in the creek bank at the end of our street that predates the local Lenni Lenape people. A past coworker's son had found a corroded British saber protruding from a small creek in their back yard in Abington, PA.
Thank you for your interesting and real presentation, sir. Brings to mind happy times from boyhood days in western Pennsylvania, not far from you there in northern West Virginia.
as an old bow hunter my take on creek arrowheads is that hunters would travel the creek bottoms to get a shot at browsing deer up on the flats and anywhere up to a hundred yards from said creek would be where arrows would land if the deer was missed and also a woulded deer if it got away would head for water in its injured condition and possibly die in the creek. It would also be a good place to process a successfull kill.
Im waiting on a big rain, i blew all the leaves from a wash that goes into a creek. You gave me that idea on one of your other videos. These videos are good info.
Subscribed. You will have great success with your content on RUclips. I love your videos, its like im with you finding arrowheads to. Keep the content coming I promise you this channel is gonna blow up. Thanks for the hard work you put into this for us all to enjoy. You will be rewarded.
My Dad and I use to hunt for arrowheads back in the 70 s in Dent County Missouri exactly how you are describing it in this video. lot s of fun can be back breaking. I have no idea where those arrowheads went he had a few large matchboxes full. It s a great hobby if you got a place to look.
Interesting video Scott. Interesting also that it's a slightly different experience you being at a creek instead of the river. River got up pretty high here in Louisville and last time I looked was still up. Thanks for posting!
My dad introduced me to point hunting when I was 8 I’m now 12 and I love it. Over the past 4 years I’ve collected 24 arrowheads all together and in my collection I have TWO perfect daltons each about 150 - 250 EACH those were my two best finds the best part is my dad and brother stepped right over one 😂 I look over and there it is that was my first ever dalton the other was in a river just sitting there and a blind person couldn’t have missed it it was bone white almost glowing in water the best part of it was it was my first find in that river 😁. That was 2 years ago though and since then I found well over $500 worth of arrowheads 😮
Still never found an arrowhead after all these years. I've hunted Colorado's plains, Central/South West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Middle Tennessee, and yet I have never been blessed with a find. I'll keep looking!
I use to manage a ranch north of Austin and the of University of Texas had dug on the creek that ran through the ranch. We found probably a cigar box full of in the 3 years there. We take break once a to hunt for arrowheads.🇺🇸🤠
One must have a very keen eye hunting for arrowheads ... my brother in law found 3 shoeboxes full along plowed fields on family farm Columbiana County Ohio over the years ...
Living here in New England there are so many streams and brooks and from what I heard from my friend who hunts for arrowheads that there are a lot of arrowheads along the banks of these brooks and streams.
I wish they had a true expert, old folk, guide to hunting arrowheads & pottery. My great aunt has a dammed spring fed valley pond that the emergency spillway washed out twice & behind the dam another creek runs parallel with it. Where the intersect I have found caboodles of flint & pottery pieces as well as afew whole arrowheads. She told me that the Indians use to live right around that around which by what I have found confirms that. She even says that at our locally well known “5 point” a 5 way stop intersection that there was an Indian trading post where Andrew Jackson came & met with tribe leaders. 5 point is right there close to where the spring starts. Where the emergency spillway washout in the cliff side we found what looks to be a horse’s skeleton. As far as she knows though none of our previous 2 generations ever own horses just cows. So you now show old they are & if they might possibly be there from the Indians. Everytime I go down there I find abunch of finds, being flint nappings galore, random or broken arrowhead pieces, one or 2 intact arrowheads or fragments of pottery. You will even have spots where you’ll find charcoal from where wood was once burnt. I know there had to be a small camp there on my aunts land. The crazy part is I have found some of these pieces almost right at ground level where there’s spots where the grass is dead. I had heard that the common white flint glows in uv/black light but that doesn’t look to be true. There is so much down there to try to shift through I wish I had someone who enjoyed just the adventure of looking & exploring as I do. Sadly the closest thing I have to friends are ladies that are in their 70’s to mid 80’s even though I’m mid 30. Life has been rough & damaging to my soul.
I knew about the erosion and stuff but I assumed people found more around water because the stones they used to make to arrowheads were easier to find there… Plus it’s not a bad idea to hunt near a water source… Maybe it’s a little bit of everything is the reason why you find more in creeks… I’ve found a couple points back when I was younger. I’m thinking about getting back into it… Thanks for the info, I love your channel btw…
You explained something I wanted to know. I have a Civil War battle site near my home it was on a river. A friend of mine was boating down the river when he rounded the bend where the battle took place at the original bridge. He found five Minnie balls on a small shelf of rock where the water had washed away the soil allowing the bullets to fall on the shelf waiting for him to come along.
Another fellow i know was walking along old rail road line Ohio side of river just past New Cumburland Locks and Dam ... he found an old indian pipe in prestine condition walking along eroded rail road tracks
They just built a new bridge beside a very old bridge on a small river. At the turn of the century there were 5000 Osage Indians camped there and where the dug new footings there were a lot of arrowheads, we find them all along that river on sand banks and rocky shelves.
Three guesses: 1. Discards/ lost while hunting for suitable arrow-head stock material. 2. Wounded animals often head to water. 3. Rain washing arrow-heads into lowest area.
Creeks attract rabbits and other animals with their burrows in or near creeks. This is where Indians hunted for better success. That;s why more arrowheads are found in creeks instead on the benches above the creeks.
Hey Clegg been a year since I’ve commented thanks for the advice it’s bang on as usual but I live in BC Canada 🇨🇦 and mountainous region so less dirt lots of granite and boulders but I do find a lot of beautiful points and tools that have washed out of the banks works great every late winter when water is lowest , love your stick technique by the way
That is very interesting. Around here on the St. Johns river in N. Central Fla. we have lots of old Indian shards of pottery. Lots and lots of them. They must have been used for cooking and storage and were easily broken so they just made more?
Very interesting video. As to your idea that ancient people must have found in the stream gravel the artifacts of still more ancient people, that may not have been as common as you suppose. As you say, most of the artifacts wind up in the gravel from the eroding of the banks, but I believe that type of erosion would not have been as common in the old days. This type of erosion has likely been greatly sped up by changing land-use patterns, specifically logging the forests and converting land to agricultural use, which in turn changes run-off patterns, especially after plowing, or where there are non-absorbent surfaces like road, roofs, and parking lots.
@@cleggsadventuresSure, but something from a thousand years ago could have washed into the stream yesterday, or might tomorrow. Why do yo think erosion happens at the same rate when land-use and run-off patterns have changed? BTW, I think what you are doing is really cool. Could you give us a rough idea about how many artifacts you have found, and show some of the nicer pieces? Or have you already done that in earlier videos?
@@MartinMMeiss-mj6li Yeah, I know the Arrowhead probably washed out recently. Three Years of CLEGG’S ADVENTURES ruclips.net/video/FoIN1R4gM8o/видео.html
Stone Age indigenous people would set up a camp near a source of stone for spear heads and arrowheads and begin making tools. Because the source wasn't always the best stone such as chirt or low grade flint they would often break the points while making them. Subsequently, they would discard the bad tool and proceed to make another. These temporary camps were almost always located near water.
That's true of the area around my neighborhood in Missouri where a creek was dammed up to build a lake and an upscale housing development. That sedimentary limestone lies scattered in large boulders and smaller pieces however, the glaciers from the ice age brought a lot of chirt and low grade flint. Before the lake filled we used to come here an hunt arrowheads and spear points. We seldom found ones that were complete. Natives people would make temporary camps near creeks solely to dig for flint and chirt. The soil here is terrible for lawns and a nightmare for cable TV and electrical lines. That's because when they drill they never know whether they're going to hit nasty chirt.
I always walk outa this creek with something. Just never anything great. I’ve found one very nice one there, is why I check it. U never know what’s gonna pop out next.
@@cleggsadventures i love all your videos. I seem to forget about all the nasty stuff that can be happening in life for the time being and just enjoy watching you do stuff I would love to do!
When we were really young we were taken on walks in local fields to look for arrowheads. Still have lots of what we found around.Sometimes I would find the occasional arrowhead in pristine condition like they were just made.My father would make them in his shop and drop them in the dirt and say lets look over here for some. Just figured this out after he passed away.Guess he thought it was better if we actually found some every time we went out.
I live in Pennsylvania near Tioga point and Spanish hill . The confluences in our area seem to be great places to find Artifacts . There is a confluence of Sugar creek and a no-named run in East Troy that gave up hundreds of artifacts through the years . The surrounding fields are included in this . A Man that lived there for 80+ years had a large collection . After the Agnes flood of 1972 , he found A LOT . Hammers , arrowheads , fish net sinks and more of the usual . Spanish hill has a very unique story , the local natives claimed the Spanish arrived before Columbus and strangely , a Spanish cross was found in Athens ( neat Spanish hill) while excavating for a basement .
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks. Just a couple years ago i hadnt found a single point. Since then ive watched your videos and learned a lot from them, and ive found dozens now. Youve helped change the game for me 🫡 Still learning but I'm definitely improving
Id visited a creek once. And there was nothing there. I thought it was a bust and i almost crossed it off my list for good. But i came back just on a whim a year later, and two new beaver dams were built. Like you say, it changed the flow. I found two points and two scrapers that afternoon. One of them being the one in my profile pic
Let's not forget the other 400 ways points get in creeks. They hunted the creeks too. Gigging frogs. Spearing fish. Shooting at game and missing and the arrow ends up in the water. Dying. I found 4 points within 3 feet on a trail. Person was probably killed right there and all that was left was the rocks he was carrying. Amazing...
Here in PA when we see stream banks with such steep sides it is usually because of "legacy sediment" from mill dams. Could there have been a dam within a half mile downstream of where you were?
I was fishing one day down in the valley below Tenkiller Lake dam in Oklahoma. The spot is was fishing must have been an old creek that was now a little pond. I knelt down to wash worm slime off my fingers and there was a big arrowhead about 5 inches long. It was in perfect condition after I got all the moss off it. Must have been some kind of knife or spearhead.
The natives who left these points are long gone, even the tribes or groups. Most folks have no clue. Thank you so much for the videos. I always learn something.
I just found a new honey hole under a overhang on the oppisite ridge from a bluff that still has paintings on them, i do wish i knew how old they are but alot of what im finding is big corner notch stuff but some others to
Some points get into the creeks by ancient peoples spotting fish and taking shots at them. Some others are carried in by game that didn’t die until they got to the creeks.
I have a section of creek i walk alot and find nothing only to come back the next day or after a flood and find flakes and tools and preforms and some times petrified theeth so i keep on truckin to hopefuly one day find that arrowhead
Of all the artifacts I've found over the years, my favorite is a stone centerpiece of a ceremonial necklace. Dated around 8-10,000 years ago. That find also yielded 3 pieces of pottery, all 4 pieces were in an area of about 10". 🪶
A lot of points are in creeks because, of ambush hunting. Animals always take the path of least resistance. So, the people would wait near the water because the animals would come to them at the water. There were many points lost into the waterways by misses. You are right about the erosion factor but, people did not live on the bank. The people lived on high ground to stay dry but, close so they could get water easily and hunted the lower areas.
Thanks for explaining a bit on erosion and stream/river recovery of artifacts. Pretty cool finding points, blades, pottery and the like. Keep on filming. You have a great channel.
Thank you
My grandsons 7/9 love your channel. Especially the video with the spirit Indian/Native American after you. They cackled on that one...had to replay it several times for them. Just got started looking for arrowheads/artifacts. Took them yesterday after a 4 foot swell from a 3 inch rain had subsided to about 14 inches depth. All we found on the dry sand/gravel bar were "Indian Beads" (fossils) but everything is a treasure to them...and it gets them into the woods. Going back in a day or two after the flow drops another foot so I/we can really look at the rock bars. Yesterday revealed a ton of freshly rolled, clean rock in the bottom of the creek that - before the rain - was all mossy and hard to discern. Going to try and focus adjacent to flat ground BUT with move to a section directly adjacent to both the flat on one side and the steep / pointed ridges that overlook the creek and have eroded over hundreds of years...right onto the creek bed...on the opposite side. I picture them camping on those ridges, too, as they empty out onto flat ground. Thanks! Rory
Sounds like a good spot you have. The leaves finally got washed away here. The river is still a little high but dropping. Hope y’all find a nice one!👍
Those are two lucky boys and they'll remember you for showing them about treasure hunting.
Thank you. Enjoying God's creation.@@pplusbthrust
Knowing all this, I STILL watch you because of how enjoyable your demeanor is on camera. Love the creek exploration videos you've been doing a bit more than "THE digging spot" videos. Thanks for posting!
Much Appreciated
Hi Scott , it is good to see you out hunting again . As usual very informative , with the eyes of an eagle
It is great to see you
out and about
Yeah Bill, we’re finally getting some better weather
That was very interesting! You have a good eye for finding that stuff! One additional factor that's going on here is that surface runoff is vastly greater in post-settlement times than it was in pre-settlement times. That's because the runoff from tilled fields and even from cleared forests is enormously greater than it was when those places were still in their natural states. Typical rivers and creeks in post-settlement times have cut much deeper into their beds than had been the case in the distant past, and there is also far greater bank erosion going on. That's the result of high-flow events occurring far more frequently and in greater volume than was typical in pre-settlement times. My previous career involved examining soils within excavations for construction in all sorts of locations, and when excavations are done within floodplains and even just the bottoms of broad, gently-sloped valleys, there's usually clear evidence of the changes in erosion and/or deposition that have taken place in post-settlement times as compared to what was happening earlier. Erosion of the banks and bottoms of creek channels always took place, and it followed the same "rules" as what we see today, but the volume of soil that is being moved by streams is many times greater in modern times than it ever was in the distant past.
Sounds like you have it down.👍
Nice find, thanks for taking us along!
Much Appreciated
Your content is so authentic and genuine. I love it.
Much Appreciated
👍 I can picture a Woodland period native picking up a fine Clovis point and feeling like he won the lottery. I wonder what did run through their minds about ages of different artifacts they found. That little arrow you found is an anomaly.
Probably thought it was 50 years old. I figure they found a lot, seeing they would be looking for flint type stone
I was just thinking about this to how often did they find paleo arrowheads and if they knew how old they were
@@revengeoftheriddler I’m sure they knew it came from earlier people but no way to know how old.
With no records, I figure 3 or 4 generations later, it was forgotten.
Cool show, brother Scott 😎✌️!!!
I really need to find some creeks to walk.... Nice finds too ✌️🍀⛏️⛏️⛏️
Much Appreciated 👍
@@cleggsadventures
Enjoyed 😎👊
I live close to Floyds Fork creek in Bullitt Co, KY and i've hunted on gravel bars that look just like where you are. I find a lot of fossils (ancient small clams small marine life), but I've never found a point. I always surface hunt, maybe I should dig some. Good video, glad to see you're still out and about.
Thanks David
my situation may be a lot like yours, i live close to Baker's Fork creek in Southern ohio, close to Serpent Mound, & i have those gravel/sand bars too....i'm making a shaker now & am planning on sifting them....i've found 6 arrowheads & 2 scrapers on my property but now will try the creek...
One other thing I always looked for when I was younger was a rivulet in the bank wshing down from the level field above. These usually form in floods and heavy rain run offs over the years and sometimes they are full of good stuff like a fruitcake full of candied fruit.
@@poetcomic1 We’ve had so much flooding in the Ohio Valley this winter. It’s all flooded now again. The searching will be good this spring and summer
Scott: Just yesterday, I was wondering when you would publish another vid. I know, winter has been a little rough. Good to see you again, bud. Have a good one. Enjoyed it! We have had a couple big/hard rains this winter. I need to walk the two branches, crossing my place. Who knows what I will find. Good motivation video.
Much Appreciated. The river has been high, it’s just now getting back down.
Your explanation makes sense. I'm also inclined to believe that ancient people hunted near the creeks, because animals frequent the creek banks for water. Then they get shot at.
Exactly
Honestly I felt like this video was just for my old artifacts hunting self , I walk a stream just like yours on my brother’s property I learned so much - the part about the gravel beds being constantly re worked by the water … that hit me ! There’s like seven gravel bars in his stream, and I have not thought to go back and look at them after several rains -I feel like such a goober !! Thanks for that tidbit
Waters high down here in Arkansas too
Emma Watson …. She don’t believe a word you say Clegg …. But she says Hey 👋
Yeah, that gravel turns over every wash. I look this creek a lot, but don’t always find stuff.
Emma just wants her 10¢ pills
@@cleggsadventuresEmma and her pills!😂😂😂😂😂
This makes sense why the only one I have ever found was found by my local river area. I found it on the banks where recent work had been done.
Great video and channel. You made a great point at the end.
Expedient tools are common but often overlooked. Over the years I've learned At some of these sites the textbooks offer little help.
Yeah, there’s not much info. I find, I learn more in the field anyway
Just found your channel. Great work and sharing how to look for ancient artifacts.
Much Appreciated
Our farm was over one hundred years old and at one time was monstrous but the sold most of it before my parents bought it
The farm used to be around a river that went into a lake and was a summer camp for whatever tribe was living there. They had boxes of old arrowheads and a bunch of semi-good ones were in frames.
Generally the bad ones would be the ones that would be laying around.
I'm sure if anyone had done any digging they would have found a lot more stuff but the only digging we did was plowing the only field left which was only twenty acres. The rest of the old farm was planted Christmas Trees owned by a family a few miles down the road.
Those trees gotta be all gone by now it's been thirty years since we lived there and none of the grandkids were field workers.
Sounds like a great area
Just a great show, thx for showing us the ropes.. props Clegg 💪
Much Appreciated
There you are!! I was just hoping you didn't take the entire winter off there!! I recall many frigid wintry days during my four years at WVWC but then there were the nice breaks and Audra State Park with terrain and streams just yours there and 'hot' mid-winter days often well into the 60s! Jim C,
I’m just glad it’s warmer this week, it’s been bad. Hard to get out and find stuff
Great video. Looks like the water's gonna finally be back to normal today around here. I can't wait to get down there this evening
Thanks. Maybe be some good searching 👍
theres a creek right beside my house that i walk down quite a bit in the summer, havnt found anything beside those old green class coke bottles and loads of pericline Nickle mason lids. maybe one day! Good finds man!
Keep on searching, some creeks are better than others I’ve found.👍
@@cleggsadventuresmy theory is that injured animals also make their way to water to die
Keep looking! About 20 years ago my wife found a spear point in the creek bank at the end of our street that predates the local Lenni Lenape people. A past coworker's son had found a corroded British saber protruding from a small creek in their back yard in Abington, PA.
Great adventure and informative!
Thank you Much 👍
Thank you for your interesting and real presentation, sir. Brings to mind happy times from boyhood days in western Pennsylvania, not far from you there in northern West Virginia.
Much Appreciated 👍
as an old bow hunter my take on creek arrowheads is that hunters would travel the creek bottoms to get a shot at browsing deer up on the flats and anywhere up to a hundred yards from said creek would be where arrows would land if the deer was missed and also a woulded deer if it got away would head for water in its injured condition and possibly die in the creek. It would also be a good place to process a successfull kill.
I’m sure it happened many times
Tribes also lived near water on higher ground so they spent time making those arrowheads,thus more opportunity to find a bunch of them in one area
Ive been wanting to do tutorials like this for a while! No point in it now when the best is already out there 😂 awsome vid sir! 🙌🏻
I’d watch your take. Love the videos
Im waiting on a big rain, i blew all the leaves from a wash that goes into a creek. You gave me that idea on one of your other videos. These videos are good info.
Good luck out there 👍
A lot of fun and excitement, finding artifacts from the past.
I love the hobby 👍
Ive found many..jus with this self learned knowledge...its crazy knowing how many are waiting to be found this way..great vid my man
Very Much Appreciated. There’s a bunch to be found
Subscribed. You will have great success with your content on RUclips. I love your videos, its like im with you finding arrowheads to. Keep the content coming I promise you this channel is gonna blow up. Thanks for the hard work you put into this for us all to enjoy. You will be rewarded.
Much Appreciated! I’ve been at it for 4 years, it’s a long hard road.👍
Great informational video spike and I discussed the same theory about point copying good finds
Yeah, they had to find the older stuff
Your sense of reality is similar to mine when it come to the concept of ancient thinking. We really dont know but it is something to ponder about.
have a creek running through our backyard here in oregon. Found tons of arrowheads Big and little Pestle's tons of history
Very Nice 👍
Yes! Loved the video Clegg. My absolute favorite channel.
Thanks Charles
My Dad and I use to hunt for arrowheads back in the 70 s in Dent County Missouri exactly how you are describing it in this video. lot s of fun can be back breaking. I have no idea where those arrowheads went he had a few large matchboxes full. It s a great hobby if you got a place to look.
Missouri is one of the best states to search. Lots of artifacts there
Great video. I've only found one in my life.
Much Appreciated. You’re due
dude,,,,, u are awsome......wish u would travel up to nothern va and see all the creeks up here and see what u find!!!!!!!
@@user-us5uj2lz3f Much Appreciated
Wish they still plowed fields. 😢
Heard that!
Me too
They don’t?
Very interesting. Cool info.
Uh no. Topsoil is too valuable and takes to long to make to erode.
Beautiful enthusiastic presentation, man!
Much Appreciated
Interesting video Scott. Interesting also that it's a slightly different experience you being at a creek instead of the river. River got up pretty high here in Louisville and last time I looked was still up. Thanks for posting!
It was up here too. Back down now, but muddy
My dad introduced me to point hunting when I was 8 I’m now 12 and I love it. Over the past 4 years I’ve collected 24 arrowheads all together and in my collection I have TWO perfect daltons each about 150 - 250 EACH those were my two best finds the best part is my dad and brother stepped right over one 😂 I look over and there it is that was my first ever dalton the other was in a river just sitting there and a blind person couldn’t have missed it it was bone white almost glowing in water the best part of it was it was my first find in that river 😁. That was 2 years ago though and since then I found well over $500 worth of arrowheads 😮
You’re on a Roll! I have yet to find a Dalton. Those are old!
Still never found an arrowhead after all these years. I've hunted Colorado's plains, Central/South West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Middle Tennessee, and yet I have never been blessed with a find. I'll keep looking!
Rivers are better usually
I use to manage a ranch north of Austin and the of University of Texas had dug on the creek that ran through the ranch. We found probably a cigar box full of in the 3 years there. We take break once a to hunt for arrowheads.🇺🇸🤠
Very nice
One must have a very keen eye hunting for arrowheads ... my brother in law found 3 shoeboxes full along plowed fields on family farm Columbiana County Ohio over the years ...
Fields are great spots
Living here in New England there are so many streams and brooks and from what I heard from my friend who hunts for arrowheads that there are a lot of arrowheads along the banks of these brooks and streams.
Exactly
I wish they had a true expert, old folk, guide to hunting arrowheads & pottery. My great aunt has a dammed spring fed valley pond that the emergency spillway washed out twice & behind the dam another creek runs parallel with it. Where the intersect I have found caboodles of flint & pottery pieces as well as afew whole arrowheads. She told me that the Indians use to live right around that around which by what I have found confirms that. She even says that at our locally well known “5 point” a 5 way stop intersection that there was an Indian trading post where Andrew Jackson came & met with tribe leaders. 5 point is right there close to where the spring starts. Where the emergency spillway washout in the cliff side we found what looks to be a horse’s skeleton. As far as she knows though none of our previous 2 generations ever own horses just cows. So you now show old they are & if they might possibly be there from the Indians. Everytime I go down there I find abunch of finds, being flint nappings galore, random or broken arrowhead pieces, one or 2 intact arrowheads or fragments of pottery. You will even have spots where you’ll find charcoal from where wood was once burnt. I know there had to be a small camp there on my aunts land. The crazy part is I have found some of these pieces almost right at ground level where there’s spots where the grass is dead. I had heard that the common white flint glows in uv/black light but that doesn’t look to be true. There is so much down there to try to shift through I wish I had someone who enjoyed just the adventure of looking & exploring as I do. Sadly the closest thing I have to friends are ladies that are in their 70’s to mid 80’s even though I’m mid 30. Life has been rough & damaging to my soul.
Yeah, I wish there was a book like that too! Sounds like u have a great area
I knew about the erosion and stuff but I assumed people found more around water because the stones they used to make to arrowheads were easier to find there… Plus it’s not a bad idea to hunt near a water source… Maybe it’s a little bit of everything is the reason why you find more in creeks… I’ve found a couple points back when I was younger. I’m thinking about getting back into it… Thanks for the info, I love your channel btw…
Much Appreciated! Get out there, you’ll find something 👍
@@cleggsadventures Yes sir, I can’t wait for spring to roll around… I’m a fisherman anyway, so why not look while I’m walking the creeks…
You explained something I wanted to know. I have a Civil War battle site near my home it was on a river. A friend of mine was boating down the river when he rounded the bend where the battle took place at the original bridge. He found five Minnie balls on a small shelf of rock where the water had washed away the soil allowing the bullets to fall on the shelf waiting for him to come along.
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Knox County Illinois! Find arrowheads all the time in farmlands! 😮 Holding two in my hand right now! 😊
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I never grow tired of this ,, well done ,great work... interesting and informative.
Thank you
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Here in Huntington WV and I’m trying so hard to find artifacts!!! I can’t wait til I can find my first one.
You’ll get one 👍
In PA, my Great Uncle had a lit of what he called Bird Arrowheads
Yes, that is the general term used for arrow tips. Most others were used on darts or spears.
Another fellow i know was walking along old rail road line Ohio side of river just past New Cumburland Locks and Dam ... he found an old indian pipe in prestine condition walking along eroded rail road tracks
They just built a new bridge beside a very old bridge on a small river. At the turn of the century there were 5000 Osage Indians camped there and where the dug new footings there were a lot of arrowheads, we find them all along that river on sand banks and rocky shelves.
Very cool
Three guesses: 1. Discards/ lost while hunting for suitable arrow-head stock material. 2. Wounded animals often head to water. 3. Rain washing arrow-heads into lowest area.
Probably the first. No Flint in this area, only sandstone. And, the creek is very small. Probably a living area
How sad about the wounded animals. They suffered and searched for water as they died. Breaks my heart to imagine. Each arrowhead tells a story.
People too, I can't remember the Western book or movie but it talked about how arrow wounds would have men begging for water until they died.
Creeks attract rabbits and other animals with their burrows in or near creeks. This is where Indians hunted for better success. That;s why more arrowheads are found in creeks instead on the benches above the creeks.
Hey Clegg been a year since I’ve commented thanks for the advice it’s bang on as usual but I live in BC Canada 🇨🇦 and mountainous region so less dirt lots of granite and boulders but I do find a lot of beautiful points and tools that have washed out of the banks works great every late winter when water is lowest , love your stick technique by the way
Much Appreciated Mike
That is very interesting. Around here on the St. Johns river in N. Central Fla. we have lots of old Indian shards of pottery. Lots and lots of them. They must have been used for cooking and storage and were easily broken so they just made more?
0:47 I save old pieces of ceramics, pottery, etc, and fill old glass jars with them, and actually displays quite well 😉
I usually keep them, but that one didn’t look very old
Very interesting video. As to your idea that ancient people must have found in the stream gravel the artifacts of still more ancient people, that may not have been as common as you suppose. As you say, most of the artifacts wind up in the gravel from the eroding of the banks, but I believe that type of erosion would not have been as common in the old days. This type of erosion has likely been greatly sped up by changing land-use patterns, specifically logging the forests and converting land to agricultural use, which in turn changes run-off patterns, especially after plowing, or where there are non-absorbent surfaces like road, roofs, and parking lots.
I see what you’re saying, but erosion happens at the same rate, and I find stuff from 1000 years ago
@@cleggsadventuresSure, but something from a thousand years ago could have washed into the stream yesterday, or might tomorrow. Why do yo think erosion happens at the same rate when land-use and run-off patterns have changed?
BTW, I think what you are doing is really cool. Could you give us a rough idea about how many artifacts you have found, and show some of the nicer pieces? Or have you already done that in earlier videos?
@@MartinMMeiss-mj6li Yeah, I know the Arrowhead probably washed out recently.
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Yeah, warming a bit this week
Stone Age indigenous people would set up a camp near a source of stone for spear heads and arrowheads and begin making tools. Because the source wasn't always the best stone such as chirt or low grade flint they would often break the points while making them. Subsequently, they would discard the bad tool and proceed to make another. These temporary camps were almost always located near water.
The only stone in these creeks are sandstones.
That's true of the area around my neighborhood in Missouri where a creek was dammed up to build a lake and an upscale housing development. That sedimentary limestone lies scattered in large boulders and smaller pieces however, the glaciers from the ice age brought a lot of chirt and low grade flint. Before the lake filled we used to come here an hunt arrowheads and spear points. We seldom found ones that were complete. Natives people would make temporary camps near creeks solely to dig for flint and chirt. The soil here is terrible for lawns and a nightmare for cable TV and electrical lines. That's because when they drill they never know whether they're going to hit nasty chirt.
You are the best! Keep up the great hobby.
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Howdy Clegg! I'm really enjoying your channel. Do you ever find any Clovis stuff? I imagine that would be pretty high on your bucket list.
@@jonericus Much Appreciated! Hard to find in this area, I haven’t found one yet.
That little white one you say looks like a dove tail cutter.....it really does! Looks like a 10k year old exacto knife!
Man I must be looking in the wrong areas because in this one video you have found so much! Crazy!!!!
I always walk outa this creek with something. Just never anything great. I’ve found one very nice one there, is why I check it. U never know what’s gonna pop out next.
@@cleggsadventures i love all your videos. I seem to forget about all the nasty stuff that can be happening in life for the time being and just enjoy watching you do stuff I would love to do!
Think of all the points that are still in the gravel and the deep holes that will never be found.. Love the videos!
Much Appreciated! Yeah, probably walking right by them and don’t even know
We scan fields in the spring after they are plowed . One problem with this is fewer fields are now plowed . Great content
Much Appreciated. Less fields here too
When we were really young we were taken on walks in local fields to look for arrowheads. Still have lots of what we found around.Sometimes I would find the occasional arrowhead in pristine condition like they were just made.My father would make them in his shop and drop them in the dirt and say lets look over here for some. Just figured this out after he passed away.Guess he thought it was better if we actually found some every time we went out.
@@692ALBANNACH very cool !
I live in Pennsylvania near Tioga point and Spanish hill . The confluences in our area seem to be great places to find Artifacts . There is a confluence of Sugar creek and a no-named run in East Troy that gave up hundreds of artifacts through the years . The surrounding fields are included in this . A Man that lived there for 80+ years had a large collection . After the Agnes flood of 1972 , he found A LOT . Hammers , arrowheads , fish net sinks and more of the usual . Spanish hill has a very unique story , the local natives claimed the Spanish arrived before Columbus and strangely , a Spanish cross was found in Athens ( neat Spanish hill) while excavating for a basement .
love your videos
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Great video! Very interesting.
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I will have to check chippawa creek more no arrowheads yet but cool stone tools, love your videos, inspiires me to keep looking thanks
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Great Video! New Subscriber form Northern WV Wetzel County
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My son found one in a New England brook. My daughter found one below a turf capped slump in the badlands
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Just wanted to pop in and say thanks. Just a couple years ago i hadnt found a single point. Since then ive watched your videos and learned a lot from them, and ive found dozens now. Youve helped change the game for me 🫡
Still learning but I'm definitely improving
Much Appreciated! I’m always looking for new ways
Id visited a creek once. And there was nothing there. I thought it was a bust and i almost crossed it off my list for good. But i came back just on a whim a year later, and two new beaver dams were built. Like you say, it changed the flow. I found two points and two scrapers that afternoon. One of them being the one in my profile pic
Let's not forget the other 400 ways points get in creeks. They hunted the creeks too. Gigging frogs. Spearing fish. Shooting at game and missing and the arrow ends up in the water. Dying. I found 4 points within 3 feet on a trail. Person was probably killed right there and all that was left was the rocks he was carrying. Amazing...
This is just a small run
Looks like fun! Always a pleasure brother! 😉
Much Appreciated Sam
Here in PA when we see stream banks with such steep sides it is usually because of "legacy sediment" from mill dams. Could there have been a dam within a half mile downstream of where you were?
This is just a small stream. No steams dammed around here
I was fishing one day down in the valley below Tenkiller Lake dam in Oklahoma. The spot is was fishing must have been an old creek that was now a little pond. I knelt down to wash worm slime off my fingers and there was a big arrowhead about 5 inches long. It was in perfect condition after I got all the moss off it. Must have been some kind of knife or spearhead.
The right place at the right time! Nice
I live in Oklahoma along the Arkansas river , crazy how many are in the river bed
That’s a good state for artifacts
Good explanation Scott. I hope the folks that keep telling us to "put them back, the indians put them in there for a reason" see this. 😂
I get that all the time. Tell me to give em’ back to the Natives. I don’t even know any Natives!
The natives who left these points are long gone, even the tribes or groups. Most folks have no clue. Thank you so much for the videos. I always learn something.
I just found a new honey hole under a overhang on the oppisite ridge from a bluff that still has paintings on them, i do wish i knew how old they are but alot of what im finding is big corner notch stuff but some others to
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Very cool, I'll have to try looking at the creek by my place.
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Amazing how this guy can spot these artifacts so easily !
Hawk eye
great information .. thanks for sharing your tips.. peace
Thank you. 👍✌️
Glad you finally got to the point....
We can’t wait for another episode!!!!!
Thanks guy👍
It's really cool thinking about the people hundreds and thousands of years ago
It is for sure
Good video! 🤔 I think I will do some serious looking again at the creek on my property. Take care.
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Some points get into the creeks by ancient peoples spotting fish and taking shots at them. Some others are carried in by game that didn’t die until they got to the creeks.
I’ve heard that
Good information on creek walking!❤
Thanks Cynthia 👍
Really great video thanks for sharing
Thank you
I have a section of creek i walk alot and find nothing only to come back the next day or after a flood and find flakes and tools and preforms and some times petrified theeth so i keep on truckin to hopefuly one day find that arrowhead
There’s one there somewhere 👍
Great tips ,ive never found much but im still lookin lol😂
Good luck out there
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Mr. Clegg, good show sir! One question for you is, would there be any use to bringing a metal detector into these areas in rivers and creeks??
Yeah, ya never know what has washed down.
I knew of a fellow that worked for Dravo Ohio River Dredging Panhandle Ohio West Virginia ... he found a petrified dinosaur egg amoust the dredge
I actually seen and held the egg
I’d love to find something like that
Good to see you Scott. That was a nice video Say hi to Rocky. Peace
Much Appreciated! Rocky says hey
I'll give it a try on the creek where I reside.
Great info brother
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Of all the artifacts I've found over the years, my favorite is a stone centerpiece of a ceremonial necklace. Dated around 8-10,000 years ago. That find also yielded 3 pieces of pottery, all 4 pieces were in an area of about 10".
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