Copper Spear point 1000 BCE to 4000 BCE !

[Jcbdc]

When I lived in Pointski in the early 80's I should have spent more time looking for artifacts. Great find.
Dr. Joe Birdwell

[Dirty Dave]

WOW.....fantastic! A find of a lifetime.

Dave

[borborygmus]

whoa...that's amazing! stuff that old gives me cold chills.

[needler420]

Nice find.

If I found something like that my dumb self would have probably threw it in the trash not even thinking twice its junk scrap metal. I know the shape indicates a spear but just the looks of it would have made me completey over look it.


Makes me think the people who say Christopher Columbus discovered America are idiots. How do you discover something that people already live in? He was the first white person to discover America.

[Timberedclub]

Really rad piece!

[Milhaus]

Nearly pure copper is plentiful in WI. When they found a concentration of copper they would dig pit mines in many cases. These pit mines are very small, and they are all over the place. Most people woudln't have a clue about what they are seeing. At best they are a shallow depression in the ground now, for the most part.

Originally Posted by Emwonk

I found two of those when I lived in Milwaukee. One was by an old house on a hill near Brookfield. I forgot the other location. They give a nice solid coin signal.

I also found three or four copper nuggets. I wonder how the Indians found the copper to make the points? It's not like it's just laying on the ground in plain sight.

The points I found a more tapered, long and pointy.

Congrats!