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Arrowhead and Projectile Point Hunter in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina! Come along with me as I preserve the past for the future… elkinhammer741@gmail.com #ridgeraider1
Closing In On Paleo # 44 4/6/24 Arrowhead Hunting western North Carolina #ridgeraider1
Arrowhead hunting Western North Carolina in and around the Catawba river basin. Ridgelines, creeks and plowed fields…. Huge archaic blade found
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They Left Us Clues! #43 3/9/24 Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina..finding relics from the past to preserve our future... Catawba river basin WNC mountains ,creeks and more remote locations #ridgeraider1
How Did It Get There? #42 Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #ridgeraider1
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Follow me while I try to search for clues to find Western North Carolina’s native American artifacts that were left behind thousands of years ago !@ridgeraider1
Early Archaic Discovery #41 Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina 12-1-23 #ridgeraider1
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Western North Carolina Arrowhead hunting at its finest as it reveals quartz material and lots of other sources not local to the area… join me on the hunt @ridgeraider1
The Fields That Yield #40 Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina 9-8-23 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead and Native American artifact hunting in Western North Carolina #ridgeraider1
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #39 Fields Of Ancient 3-22-23 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead and Native American artifact hunting Western North Carolina in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains stone tools… projectile points pottery Made from materials like Quartzite  Chert, and Rhyolite join me on the hunt as I search for clues
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #38 Mystery Point 6-5-22 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead hunting Western North Carolina And the Catawba river basin  finding Guilford Morrow Mountain and Appalachian Arrowheads In the Blue Ridge Mountains Join the searches are look for clues along the Catawba river and many other water sources in western North Carolina @ridgeraider1 
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina~ Could This Be A Ceremonial Facial Artifact? ~ #37 11-13-21
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Could this be a Ceremonial facial artifact? join me me for my 37th upload for Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina
#ridgeraider1 Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina Giant Guilford Yuma #36 7-18-21 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina Largest Guilford Yuma I’ve ever found… Also Great White Sharks Tooth from Green Mill Run! Here is the link if you want to learn more about the blue flakes ua-cam.com/video/EE7O83KaXkA/v-deo.html
Arrowhead Hunting western North Carolina #35 ~ Creek Walk Discoveries and more 3-12-21
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Arrowhead Hunting WNC
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #34 ~ A Bannerstone Year 11/25/20
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Arrowhead and Indian an artifact hunting western North Carolina Banner Stone found again!
Arrowhead hunting Western North Carolina #33~ Archaic Chert Palmer 8/30/20
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina in and around Catawba River basin... ancient Palmer Arrowhead found
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina# 32~Experiments In The Creek Reveal 6-7-20 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead and Indian artifact hunting and recovery
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #31~Creek Success Pee Dee Pentagonal~ 4/9/20 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead hunting at Indian artifact recovery in western North Carolina
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 30 ~ Hardaway Palmer? 3/11/20 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 30 ~ Hardaway Palmer? 3/11/20 #ridgeraider1
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #29 Bannerstone Boulevard
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #29 Bannerstone Boulevard
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 28 ~ Bannerstone Bombshell
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 28 ~ Bannerstone Bombshell
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 27~ The Smoke In The Fog 11-13-19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 27~ The Smoke In The Fog 11-13-19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #26~Onward 10/5/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #26~Onward 10/5/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #25 ~ Carolina Quartz 9/7/19 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #25 ~ Carolina Quartz 9/7/19 #ridgeraider1
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #24~Below The Surface 8/10/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #24~Below The Surface 8/10/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 23~ Jagged Edge 7/18/19 #ridgeraider1
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 23~ Jagged Edge 7/18/19 #ridgeraider1
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 22~ Transparency 7/5/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina # 22~ Transparency 7/5/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #21~ When The Church Bells Ring 6/11/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #21~ When The Church Bells Ring 6/11/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #20~ Bridge To Captain Kirk 4/29/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #20~ Bridge To Captain Kirk 4/29/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #19~ Rain Reveals 4/15/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #19~ Rain Reveals 4/15/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #18~Remapping The Appalachian Face and more! 4/5/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #18~Remapping The Appalachian Face and more! 4/5/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #17~ Morrow Mountain Monday 3-11-19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #17~ Morrow Mountain Monday 3-11-19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #16 ~ Wind Breaker 2/24/19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #16 ~ Wind Breaker 2/24/19
Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #15 ~ The Appalachian Face 2-2-19
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Arrowhead Hunting Western North Carolina #15 ~ The Appalachian Face 2-2-19
Anyone else notice the doe tracks?
Are you sure that’s a Palmer? The base of it doesn’t look like it. See how it forks out behind the corner notch?
Awesome finds
Thank you! Best wishes👍
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Man I'm not gonna lie. I almost stopped watching after first point but something kept me watching and I'm glad i did! Very unique from what Im used to seeing! Great video and awesome points!!! Thank you!
Thank you! Glad you liked it🏆
Gotta stop moving the artifacts around too much in your hand and such, can't really get a good look at any of them but amazing finds regardless!
My family has a farm and property in Reems Creek in WNC and we’ve got a massive family collection they acquired over the last 150 yrs. I love hunting arrowheads!
Me too! Best of luck to you
One of the most common points we find. Nice!
Awesome finds man!
Much appreciated!👍
I think that you're in a damn good spot. The potential is there for sure. Best of luck to you.
Thank you for that! I’ll keep pounding!
I love that green ryolite blade. That looks like a Cobbs blade in my opinion. That thing is cool.
I believe you are right… Cobbs Blade even though they are rare in this area… thanks!
I never found points sticking out of the dirt like that. The only points I find on the surface in a plowed field are stained red and usually barely sticking out of a dirt clod. 9 out of 10 times there is no point, but a sharp stone. You are really lucky!!!
The soil in that one field is a mix of red clay,some really rich black dirt and sand and when it rains the stand at attention like a soldier! Thanks for the comment and good luck 👍
From one old fart to another, great content! Glad I stumbled onto your channel!
Very much appreciated my friend!
You are finding some older points 10K +/-. One had Hardaway character.
Yes, and that piece…I’m gonna go ahead and call it a Hardaway! Thanks for the comment it’s encouraging
Very! Good video!. Great work. Thanks for bringing from Western NC. Haven't seen anything from that area. Thank you!
Thank you and I’m glad you enjoyed it. I have several more videos if you want to check them out.
Nice saves man , beautiful material, love that cobbs blade , maybe preform lost lake , back in the day that was rule of thumb . Great finds and congratulations
Not many cobbs in this area… however I have seen it before, but not very often… that was the first thought I had when I picked it up…so still not certain on it… are Cobbs blades beveled?
@@ridgeraider1 yes ,
@@warrenmink2429 thank you 👍
@@ridgeraider1 very good find , here we have a lot of lost lake points , St Charles etc. all are in same age bracket with dove tails and cobbs , in the 70s 80s the old timers would tell us about how the cobbs were used as blades / preforms until ready for finishing as lot lake etc. all beveled . Great save !
@@warrenmink2429 that’s super interesting
Lots of hunting!
Thanks and best of luck to you !
@indiantrace How is everything going in the Harnett / Wake county area?
@@Dougarrowhead I m more East
@@indiantrace371 johnston county
You're all over em Jeff! Congratulations my friend on some incredible finds! BTW, great drone shots too! Keep it up!
Thanks buddy! I’m getting close on the old stuff! More drone shots to come👍
I agree you found two points that looked a lot like worn out daltons not from personal experience im a Colorado collector but from viewing experience !
Thank you ! I believe there’s not only more there but older as well! And I’m getting close!🏆
@@ridgeraider1 best of luck !
I believe your "Cobbs" is made of a decent quality green metasiltstone. I found a large knife made of it about a year and a half ago and it remains my favorite material ever. Its pretty rare if that's what it's made of.That is crazy finding 2 possible paleo in such a short amount of time. Im gonna say almost definite on that second one. look up "haw river projectile point" I believe that's what that is (late paleo). Nice finds sir! Ill be in NC early June hopefully pulling some smokers.
Thank you…I believe you are correct on that blade material I haven’t quite seen it here before…. Depending on the plow line in that field may be why I’m seeing some older pieces this year… can’t be certain on either of those being Paleo or not but I do have my thoughts I feel I’m right on the verge of finding something with a definite flute. My first indication came last year when I found the hardaway… the spring should be interesting this spring… Thanks for the comment.
Great finds, congratulations! Enjoyed watching you find them.
Thank you I really appreciate it
Jeff. Man! You keep on finding great artifacts! My immediate thought was Cobbs (triangular) for that big blade. You live far enough west in NC that you have finds (and lithics) that are normally found in TN and KY. Best of both worlds (Rhyolite from NC, Quartz(ite) and maybe limestone from your area, cherts from TN/KY)! And you keep finding great Guilfords (I remember that Guilford from a couple of years ago). And those points do look like paleo bases/Daltonish/Hardawayish. Happy for ya!
Thanks buddy… working on another video soon… have you been finding anything?
Congratulations on your finds. Did you ever identify that older base?
Not for certain…. However, the ones that I have asked that are in the know seem to agree with me on it… thank you👍
Dude it's called flint chip
What is?
Man I’ve been trying to find my first point or artifact in the western Piedmont/Foothills of NC for about a month now with no luck! I trout fish creeks around McDowell county and I want to walk creeks there this week. Have you had any luck in McDowell around Curtis or the Catawaba?
Creeks are incredibly hard in western North Carolina no matter where you are… but a little easier down east… my theory is get away from the mountains a little bit when it comes to walking creeks rivers
@@ridgeraider1 are you not in WNC? Or you’re just the pro?
@@5541matt yes WNC
Hello I am watching from Western Maryland 👋🏻 We are not too far, I am still looking for my first native American artifact
Best of luck to you
Awesome finds, love your videos. I too have walked in the cold hunting and finding artifacts in Sampson , Duplin and Pender County with my cousin.
Thank you so much. I’m glad that you like it. I have more stuff on the way.👍
I'll be waiting
Nice hunt. The same toolkit and material usage extends down into Dekalb County Ga. Quartz and diabase points mostly from the Old Quartz Culture, middle Archaic into early Woodland period. This culture lasted for around 4000 years. The climate was different then being very wet at times and the animal fauna also.
Yes very different climate imho.. do you find very much Chert down that way?
We find chert too mainly in the Woodland sites. Of course some overlap from different periods. The Woodland and very late Archaic are located near water, rivers and creeks. There's quartz usage there too. It's the old stuff that I find up on hilltops away from the water, the Guilford and Morrow Mountain. The Savannah River points are found in both. Supposedly during the Archaic it was much wetter. The rivers and creeks were higher so they camped up away from it. During the Woodland, chert was traded in from the Coastal Plain, Tennessee and North Alabama. Rhyolite from North Carolina. We have very large outcrops of diabase in this area especially North of Lithonia Ga. in Dekalb and Qwinnett County. The Deptford site at Tabor Bluff had a trade network established in the Tampa Bay area. This is known by the pottery style discovered at Tabor Bluff and confirmed by Lloyd Schroeder.
@@robertporch8895 there is not an abundance of chert here… however, the field I’ve been looking lately seems to have some the most Ive ever seen from early archaic through Mississippian… Chert is not local here 👍
I've found many of those little points in Southeast Dekalb County Ga. Not completely sure what they used them for. Anything from arrow points to engraving tips or for cutting designs for tattoos. It's possible to put a row of them in a curved or straight piece of wood to use as a sickle or weapon.
The smaller ones are almost always used as projectiles
I’m on my way 😂😂😂
I moved to Todd NC in 2020. Live real close to the New River. Brand new to this stuff. Do you think that a good place to hunt? It’s the oldest river in America.
Yes anywhere along the river would be a good place to start… water sources are always key… Thanks and good luck👍
Nice artifacts, kinda like to see them cleaned up!
Just found your page. Great video. I do a little walking in Wake, Johnston, and Sampson Co, NC.
Thanks glad you like it🏆
Do you find any Chert there?
The piece you found at the end of the video what is it???
That my friend is a broken banner, stone broke right down the middle where the hole was drilled… that site produced about five of those. All of them broke of course… Thanks !
Wonderful video sir! You were one of the first arrowhead hunting videos I ever saw during the pandemic!
Thank you sir! Glad you’re still around👍
great vid. great finds.
Thank you!!
You have been on a roll my friend! Congratulations on some awesome finds and continued good luck!
Thanks Spike! Best of luck to all of the HBR crew!💪
You seem to find em in many different settings, definitely shows your dedication, well done, keep on em 😎😎😎
Thanks man… always on the look out for new sites and finding those is the hardest part… as you well know. I hope you find a Clovis today🏆
Good video brother, I’ll say it was a first for me seeing someone hunt an industrial tomato farm. I guess wherever you can find dirt on an old hunting site will produce 👍👍👍
Thank you! It’s a new one for me too! Best wishes and continued success to you 👍
Jeff...Glad to see you having field and creek success! I have one major field that I have permission to walk and even though it was plowed back in early December, it keeps being "made new" with the weekly heavy rains we've had. When I'm walking a creek, I'm always asking myself "How many have I walked by, walked past, and walked over because they are just under the surface" unspottable. Continued good luck to you!
Thank you I ask myself all those same questions as well… good luck and I hope you find many this spring 🏆
Awesome find do you know if there’s any place in Marion i could go look never been arrowhead hunting before
Beautiful finds! Love the quartz you guys find down there! Some great Guilfords and Morrow Mountains! Shame about the broken pendant! Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much and best of luck to you!
Sweet
Thank you
Nice one!
You have to wonder what life was like there when those points were made. From the looks of what you are finding I'd say 6000 to 8000 years ago mostly. Early to mid archaic period. Those are dart points so the people who made them were primarily hunter gatherers. There must have been lots of large game around that area then. Maybe late pleistocene animals around 8000years bp still. Bison, elk, dear too. Either way life would have been tuff to say the least.
Mostly mid archaic for sure… thanks👍
is this the Stanley creek? I live on it and this looks very similar to it
No… where is Stanley Creek?
Great job on the video man! And that farm is an awesome site indeed! Congrats on some incredible points. And yes….Id say heat treated.
lol thanks bud… still more to come as a get time edit… best wishes 👍
I have found quite a few of the quartz points as seen at 7:40 in northeast georgia. Exact same style
I’ve seen a few here like that as well… hope you find more and Best wishes to ya!
Dude....thats a Lecroy
I understand why you would say that… usually the ones I see though the ears are a little straighter up. I feel like this one’s older. Of course I could be wrong.. it’s hard to stay 100% all the time on the identification
You and I seem to be holding down NC! My Western Freind. I simply do my best to keep up and save what I can here in ENC. Right now, so many spots are quieted down and settled through winter... I call it the sleeping times here where it is MUCH flatter than where you are.
Lord willing there will be more to come for both of us… take care and good luck