# I found a Native American artifact! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127 "2021-09-05T06:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/1 "2021-09-05T06:23:09Z")
I found an item called a plummet. It’s a fishing weight, used to weigh down their nets when they were fishing. I found it on a river bank. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51424655277_714eaaa918_b.jpg "Plummet") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/51424655277/in/dateposted-public/) [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51426385805_bf4004ec78_b.jpg "Plummet2") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/51426385805/in/dateposted-public/) ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/2 "2021-09-05T06:38:55Z")
Plummet or axe head? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/3 "2021-09-05T06:45:42Z")
I should have mentioned the size. It’s about 2 1/2 inches long. So too small for an axe head. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/4 "2021-09-05T18:42:31Z")
Very nice find! 🎁 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/5 "2021-09-06T22:53:07Z")
_Rule 1A, Sub-section 7:_ _Never post your crimes on the internet._ You found a rock. A perfectly ordinary _rock._😉 (Only partially kidding) ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/6 "2021-09-07T00:22:05Z")
I have found 20+ artifacts in my yard, mostly broken or unfinished flint scrapers and points. My garden was near the top of a hill overlooking a creek full of stones (literally named Rock Creek) with a year-round freshwater spring. My guess is that it was a good spot to camp, look for usable stones, and sit around making tools. The artifacts I find look like they could be rejects from the stone knapping process. The one usable item I found there was unlike all the other pieces. Rather than knapped flint, it is a 3/4 grooved ground granite axe head, probably 2 to 5 thousand years old. It’s a bit scratched up from being hit by farm implements. The hilltop was a corn field for many years. In my case, I don’t buy or sell artifacts, I own the property, the artifacts are still on the property where they were found, and I haven’t seen anything that makes me think it was a gravesite, so I don’t think I have broken any laws by bringing these pieces in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/7 "2021-09-07T02:27:27Z")
> [@Retzbu\_Tox](#): > > In my case, I don’t buy or sell artifacts, I own the property, the artifacts are still on the property where they were found, and I haven’t seen anything that makes me think it was a gravesite Do your walls ever bleed at night? ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/8 "2021-09-07T03:11:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Do your walls ever bleed at night? Only on Tuesdays. The ghastly wails are on Thursdays and the mysterious footsteps are scheduled for weekends. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/9 "2021-09-08T02:05:36Z")
In my defense I originally thought it was a nodule when I put it in my pocket. Then, when I looked more closely at it later, I realized it was something different. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-native-american-artifact/950127/10 "2021-09-08T16:15:30Z")
Arrow heads used to be easy to find. I haven’t found very many since high school. I still look on camping trips but the campgrounds have been picked clean. I always wondered if every Indian made bows & arrows or if one dude in the tribe specialized and made them.