My Oldest Military Surplus

[Aragorn243]

I found these last night while looking for something else.

My father was an avid collector of Native American artifacts but he never bought them. He hunted for them in fields. When I got old enough, I went along with him. His collection is very nice, he has three or four tomahawk heads and hundreds of arrow heads and dozens of spear tips. He also has several picks, small hand tools, not digging tools and one necklace stone

All these were found when I was between 8 and 18 as once I went off to college, I stopped looking for them. Plus it became very difficult to find areas to look. We always went in the spring after the farmers plowed the fields bringing new items to the surface. A rain afterwards was pretty important also so the conditions had to be just right. Half the fields where we searched are now under the waters of Lake Raystown in Pennsylvania. All these were found in Huntingdon County in Pennsylvania. The remaining fields were taken over the the US Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Federal lands of the lake. They stopped plowing and planting them decades ago.

I still get up there to hunt (deer, not arrowheads) but haven't looked for these in decades. Probably should sometime, teach the kids how to look anyway. It isn't easy, the fields are full of rocks and you have to be able to pick out the oddities.

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