Could it be? My first Arrowhead?

[Gregory]

I took the day off from work and went to purchase a 1/2 ton of dirt to level the ground where I want to set up our pool.
As I was raking the dirt I saw something different. I picked it up and I bet its an arrowhead If I hold it to the sun I can see the light through it.
I can see where it's been worked.

Can someone confirm what I found?

I think I'll go get a few more ton tomorrow

[PAPPY]

PERTTY GREG !!! Tom will know what it is...PAPPY

[raw-war-digger]

Great eyes Greg! This appears to be a worked piece of Quartz to me! The type is unknown to me but it has been worked!

Great Find! Are You Going Through The Complete Pile Of Dirt?
Happy Hunting, Roger

[Gregory]

Thanks!
Is the Quartz common for my area?

Have of the dirt is still on my truck. I'll look through it. I'm going over to wher I bought this dirt to look some too. They have a big screen to clear the dirt from rocks.

Thanks again.

[leelo]

hi greg that is indeed quartz arrow . here where i live in illinois in a rural community,lots of fantastic indian relics have been found. i walk the plowed fields alot after a rain, and have found some great pieces. dont know about penn, but ill quartz isnt as common as flint. but most is white in color. good for you and good luck. lee

[RingDancer]

Nice find Greg Looks like it has been worked! Love those one's you can see through!
Pat

[Out4gold]

This appears to be an unfinished point size would indicate dart point. They are still a good collectable.
I do have a few pre-forms and finished points in quartz but much larger. I found them in the Pecos area of Texas.
I have a few made of agate from the same area. Your's may be agate. The dark inclusions are not common in quartz.

Congrats
Out4gold

[Toxic_Waste]

That arrowpoint is very similar to one I found about 25 years ago over in Gilroy, California. I was working at a place that grew flowers and vegetables for seed research and I was out in a field using a long-handled hoe. The field was next to a small river or a creek and the Costanoan (I think) Indians had been around that area once upon a time. As I worked the dirt with the hoe to mark an area for a plot, I caught a glance of something white. Most of the arrowpoints found in the area were dark, but not volcanic glass like obsidian.

As a side note, I, too, discovered an arrowpoint from gravel that had been purchased and scattered in our driveway. It was a black obsidian one from Sierra region.

So, this is what I dug up, guess it is quartz, too:

[raw-war-digger]

Hey Toxic,
I'm uncertain of the grade of the point you have shown? If it is Quartz then it would be in the grade I consider to be Rose Quartz but I seem to think it is of a different type of stone all together. I may be wrong but your point looks like a couple that I picked up several year ago. The stone (and I say "stone" because I didn't document the material it was made from) is not Native to this area (TN) and was very hard to work! I will try my best to remember to contact another person to tell me the proper name for the type material I'm thinking about and a scan of the pieces that I found.

The type of Chert, Flint, or Other Material doesn't matter to me......just the Fact of picking up something that old that a Human made to provide food or protection and the skill used to produce the Point/Artifact is what amazes Me!

Continued Good Luck To All Lookers/Diggers, HH, Roger

[lucasi 310]

instead of Quarts. i would say that looks more like Calcite . its alot softer then Quarts and the Cleavage is Perfect

what do you say RAW ?