festus Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:25PM
Fossil can you give any possible info?
I found this at work,it was approx 15inches deep.
An excavator clearing topsoil fluke-ily unearthed
it without damaging it.From books i have looked
at its somewhere between 500&5,000 years old lol.
festus Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:29PM
And for all you sicko's,no thats not spunk on the
yardstick haha
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:42PM
that big... it must be a spear tip. Where do you find it?
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:42PM
Not spunk maybe, just a smudge to show where you measure up?
festus Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:47PM
Lol Blax,good one
Toad it was found 3 miles east of Ft.Saskatchewan
Alberta,Canada which is just north east of Edmonton.
Yeah i figure its a big game arrow or small spear
for buffalo,elk,moose etc...
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:52PM
It's pretty big for an arrowhead. The rock I mean, not the smudge.
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 04:58PM
I would guess that it is from a Blackfoot spear. It is too big to be an
arrowhead. Nice find!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 05:56PM
good call toad...i concur.
age is really tough to call though on "heads", but i would definitely
check the area hard. take a box screen and dig to around 3 foot deep, sifting
(if not to wet). mark off a 1ox1o area with stakes and string and move another
10 foot and try again. if you're lucky(very) you could stumble on a cache
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 06:00PM
I'm on lunch right now, but when i get off I'll do some checkin on the
inhabitants of the area. it could be a eskimo head also. they did some serious
cruising around.
are there any glaciers nearby?
as for the smudge, i'm guessing it's not very old...:~}
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 06:57PM
Sarsi and Cree lived close to the area but the Blackfeet dominated that
territory. I doubt that Eskimos traveled that far south.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 09, 2006 11:43PM
spearheads are also worth a helluva lot more than arrowheads. i would value it
at a wholesale cost of 50-$60.00/inch. if it was flint(which it looks like
granite or stone of some sort, hard to tell for sure from pic.) it's worth
upwards of $100.00/inch.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2006 01:55AM
a little research revealed to me that this could be older than the cree and
blackfoot tribes. try this museum for a visual verification. i think this could
be a bit more of a significant find.
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greatcanadianrivers.com]
festus Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2006 06:47AM
Thanks for the help FossilNigger lol :p
(I really do appreciate it,I just can't help acting stupid)
Thanks for your insight too fuct-up-frog :p
(put same bracket comment as Fossils' here)
Nigel_Knowitall Report This Comment Date: September 10, 2006 07:42AM
Even thou' it is red, it can still be flint, because flint will under certain
conditions pic up metal ions from the surrounding earth. The fact that is still
razor sharp idicates that it is flint. Nice find, treat it respecfully!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2006 12:53AM
true, but flint is a bit more opaque than this pic appears
festus Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2006 05:03AM
The other side has alot of black speckles on it if
that helps determine flint or not.I dun fuggin know
brokntoad Report This Comment Date: September 11, 2006 06:30AM
Have someone local check it out. Warning tho... if it is something significant
they will be shutting you down while they do some diggin themselves.
