Arrowhead Hunting - Ohio River Valley Archaeology - Ancient Discoveries - Antiques - Arrowheads -

Sifting Ancient Relic's on the Ohio River. Many nice finds. Some tips on staying in the right layer. I got to deep a few times into gravel and out of artifacts. Special Guest : The Cat Outside.
How to find Arrowheads - Rocks Cousteau
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[@dryerlint17]

One of the highlights of my day is watching you find amazing things and hanging out with your buddies.

[@chriswasta7765]

Rocks, I think you found a chalcedony nodule. Good vid, thanks for all your work. Best regards, Chris

[@rockscousteau]

I am not sure. I know there are agates and all kind of stuff like that in the river gravels.....I dont know alot about the rocks and minerals...just the native stuff. But I am interested in just finding colorful rocks too. I used to collect rocks when i was a kid...like everyone else. LOL

[@neweyes777]

You are so good at finding Artifacts, makes me smile and so does daddy cat and how good you are with animals. Much love.

[@auntal3482]

Rocks Cousteau thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@horaceburgess9256]

Meticulously following that gravel and getting everything there. All that stuff coming from that one spot is a collection in itself. 😮

[@rockscousteau]

I killed it after this hunt on the next trip. I got more serrated points that are INSANE

[@patrickrowan1249]

Beautiful eyes on Daddy Cat!

[@rockscousteau]

Indeed. Almost so beautiful they seemed magical.

[@patrickrowan1249]

Out here we find quartz-agate mixes.. Much like that More agate than quartz for sure!

[@jerrysadventures8952]

thanks rocks

[@rockscousteau]

You are wlcome jerry. I hope you have a treasure filled weekend man. Go find something AMAZING

[@patrickrowan1249]

Smoking Amos! Love the beautiful material!!

[@twindiggersminnesotapamandpat]

Rocks nice breeze and nice day on the river finds. The cat does not look farrell, but abandoned by someone. He has come along way of gaining your trust.👍👏😀

[@jamesmarshalla9333]

Wow Rocks that glass piece is beautiful, definitely can be used for jewelry! I’m glad you’re finding some nice points there lately, thanks again!

[@scottnock5241]

Awesome brother!!!!

[@erictaylor8523]

Very nice for sure!

[@rockscousteau]

Better ones coming. I sifted 2 insane points after this one. More to come man

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

I'd say the clear piece could be quartz, Rocks, we find a lot of it down here. Awesome finds once again!❤

[@rockscousteau]

That would be my guess too. But a guess is what it is. I never really got into reading rock and mineral books. I always picked up the ones on arrowheads...LOL. More arrowheads coming. iSifted two just smoker Amos points after this

[@coffeehunter8742]

I agree with CinthiaSwearingen. Looks just like our quartz, which is fairly common down south. I found a point made from it, but it git stolen when a group of young people were visiting my house. Ut was amazing. Nice finds, Cousteau. I've enjoyed the series from this site you've found! 👍

[@kevanhoover4642]

Rocks you're on a roll !!!

[@rockscousteau]

Yea. But it is just because I am hunting multiple times a day and not going to the dump. That is why. I sifted another Nice Adena where I sifted that last one a few days ago

[@EastKYancients]

Man. Youve been killing the river brother. Love the content! I know your marble and dump digs get you the views, but i dont care about that stuff, this is what its all about. Great job

[@rockscousteau]

This is just all I am doing now. This is how it usually is out here. i sifted two more just insane serrated points a little bit ago. and 100% i am hitting a cache eroding from the bank. I found a serrated point mde out of that same block of black chert those big knives were made of

[@arnie6423]

Nice finds..I'd try putting that clear quartz or whatever it is in a rock polisher, would make an excellent necklace piece.

[@rockscousteau]

Yea a rock tumbler and a slab saw would earn you some money here Arnie. You start a channel...start doing that on here. You can sell all the stuff.........and make a living. If you are into that...you should do it. That Kinsley North Lapidary company online has all kinds of machines to polish and saw stone. They even have sphere makers that make marbles from stone and agate..people would love watching that and seeing what the agates turn out like as marbles..WOULD LOVE IT ARNIE

[@stardust949]

Coffee and Rocks...enjoying the cooler temps this morning too. Stone looks like a river-tumbled quartz to me.

[@rockscousteau]

More to come. I sifted to SMOKER serrated points after this

[@stardust949]

@@rockscousteau lol!! You are in Artifacts Mode---Rock On!

[@nj1639]

Along the shores of the Delaware Bay we would look for Cape May Diamonds, naturally tumbled and polished Herkimer Quartz Crystals traced back to the Catskills. Historically, King Nummy of the South Jersey branch of the Lenape tribe sported a huge transparent one.

[@rockscousteau]

You need to look for Paleo Sites in those bays in that area. There was a big clovis culture presence . It will be just like the Ohio river back in those bays. The erosion is just like it is here. As close as you could get. You will see the native layers eroding out of the cut banks. You need to start looking around. You get on clovis sites over there. it will get some major recognition.

[@larrymiller672]

Thanks for another cool video.Keep collcting and sorting stuff till you can piece together another beautiful frame of artifacts.Always try to have fun and i'll enjoy watching.👍🍻🙏🗽🇺🇲😎

[@rockscousteau]

Thanks Larry. More to come. I sifted two killer amos points after this hunt.

[@stevebostic9812]

RC, gotta repair that point!

[@rockscousteau]

Yea for sure. I have several I will send. I will send some to that Gomer Lithic Restoration in florida. That Keith Etchison on that Etchedinstone website for restoration is a good dude too. He does good work.

[@robbybobby6466]

Great finds. All that rain washed out a sun disc in the river by me. I wish I could post a picture here. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever found!

[@rockscousteau]

you should do a video

[@robbybobby6466]

@@rockscousteau I put one up on Facebook and I added a video comment on your Sardis Ohio antique hunting video there.

[@c.a.robinson1993]

What material do you think that Amos with the broken barb is made of!? It’s a really nice point!

[@rockscousteau]

Id say that is a River Cobble Chert. Well....I know it is. It is a pebble that has a tan or gray waxy cortex. And it is gray chert on the inside. I see it all over the place. The material on the Ohio River from marietta to Wheeling......because of the gravel outcrops with cherts in them....has some of the best material on the east coast of the us. There are jaspers.....locals cherts...river cobble agates....Flint Ridge...Black Kanawha...Crooksville. Nellie Chert. Upper Mercer. And then there are some exotic material I dont even know. You will see it all here...I am digging a bunch

[@elsakrigbaum99]

You're killing it!!!!

[@rockscousteau]

I am just looking all day pretty much. I spent like 9 hours on the river today. That is why

[@rockscousteau]

2 hours of it was just probing. I was getting off the layer that was good....BAD today. But got back into it again..luckily

[@savage11smw33]

I find that blue nellie in my area. Beautiful chert.

[@rockscousteau]

I found a sewrrated point earlier. Sifting. And when I got home i let it dry out a little. And in the clip where I was filming it...I say...This looks like Nellie Chert. I think I am onto a cache of Nellie Chert Artifacts man.

[@CoastalGardening]

😎👍🙏

[@coffeehunter8742]

I agree with Cynthia Swearingen. Looks just like all our quartz down south. It's quite common to find it polished like this in gravel beds along creeks, and i even found some on the Atlantic coast beach in N. Carolina. I found a streaked, mostly clear lije glass, Native American point made from it years ago, but it got stolen from my house when a small group of young people were visiting.. :/ Ive enjoyed this series a lot while youve been on this site you discovered. Great stuff. And you deserve it: you've thoroughly educated yourself with that area over the years, and you definitely put the consistent work in. No substitute for that! Some might say luck. I say it's when preparation meets opportunity. Nice job 👍

[@rockscousteau]

I think you are right. I have been looking at all those stones. There is gold. I know some places I can actually find nuggets in gravel beds. I may go that a little on here.

[@coffeehunter8742]

​@@rockscousteau- that'd be awesome when the time comes.

[@Swamp-Fox]

Too bad that Amos is missing a barb, but it is still super nice!

[@rockscousteau]

Yea sucks when they have damage. But it is just part of the game. Thaty would have been a year making piont with the barb for sure

[@jamiephillips887]

Definitely quartz. Either river polished or glacial polished, either way I believe it is glacial deposit from Canada. Might be gold bearing.

[@rockscousteau]

I have done pans in places. The only place I can find gold here is in the huge gravel deposits....and all the gold is laying on the baseclay in like a deep tan and maroon layer....with all kinds of black sand. I will probably do videos on all that too in time. I can find gold. Easily

[@isomer13]

Outstanding examples from incredible artisans. Good finds. That might be some pale Citrine-in the quartz family. High grade will flake similar to flint. I know a place in the Tennessee/Georgia region that literally covers the creek beds and surrounding terrain and occasionally you'll find points and tools made from it. It's sorta vitreous and looks like flaked milk glass(closest description I can come up with.) Thanks, Rocks.

[@rockscousteau]

I found 2 perfect points after this....more to come. I am into a cache for sure

[@williammurrow58]

I'm not expert but I'd say the clear piece is quartz. I found one similar on the Susquehanna where there's lots of quartz. Definitely jewel grade

[@rockscousteau]

Yea Quartz would be my first guess...LOL. But I just am not sure 100%

[@lindasigman4768]

Looks like golden quartz to me

[@rockscousteau]

You are probably correct Linda. I just dont know enough about rocks and minerals to elaborate. My guess quartz too...but I was not sure. I always read arrowhead books...and not books on gemstones. I need to get into that a little. Ive been looking at those gravels and finding all kinds of cool stuff. I found some more just REALLY cool natural rocks earlier today

[@kevindrummond3979]

Have no idea if it’s Quarts but it’s cool !

[@rockscousteau]

Dont feel bad man. I have no clue either. LOL

[@rockscousteau]

I wont BS you. I just know a "Little" about stones and the terminology. I never really got into rock collecting. Always have been into arrowheads

[@lindaleehulsey3167]

Center of AGATE? REMINDS ME of smaller ocean beach PEBBLES naturally tumbled & polished. But then again an ANCIENT CHERISHED PIECE....... ORNAMENTAL or carried in a pouch. U know when 🫵U gotta move, WHAT UR 🧐👁👁 4👍

[@timparker9869]

It's been 10 days and you're not at the DUMP looking for Marbles... like the arrow head's but miss the DUMP.

[@rockscousteau]

Ill go back to the dump eventually...when the watergoes up and times like that. It may rain and the river may go up for a month. Ill go the entire month it does and dig marbles. That is kind of how this works,

[@timparker9869]

Thank you...I do understand now.

[@deloradeabel8487]

That first Amos was a beauty,when you say fire popped does that mean arrowhead’s were fired after they were made?🐿🐈‍⬛🐕‍🦺🔮🎼🎶🎵

[@rockscousteau]

I am 100% into a cache of them eroding out of the bank. I sifted 2 more just ABSOLUTE killers after this

[@deloradeabel8487]

@@rockscousteau good for you🐿🐈‍⬛🐕‍🦺🔮🎼🎵🎶

[@CORNSMOKE-GaryLaCorte]

....your guess on the same person making all those Amos ?? ...I once found two very identical Flint knives miles apart, other than one being smaller they were clones made from same material...makes you wonder anyway.... keep digging 🙂

[@rockscousteau]

Well....Id say 3 or 4. You can tell the differences in the makers. A few of the people there had styles. Early on on my channel...I got into a place where I found like 20 nice ones like this spot in a month. All nice. All fell out of the bank in one spot. Id say all of them were even hafted...all together in a dwelling. And the river flooded....it was something like that. And it all got buried. And made a time capsule. If the spot I was on....was excavated by someplace like Ohio State Universtity. It would be a BIG DEAL. I am just scratching the surface on this place.....and look how much I have found in July. I made all these videos in the last 10 days. Found all this stuff in 10 days

[@rockscousteau]

Pretty close to this spot....is where the Clovis Points came out. That is what I am looking for on this spot. Evidence of Clovis

[@andrewnicholson2339]

Looks to be probably quartz. Or chalcedony

[@rockscousteau]

Yea...I was thinking about the same thing. I just dont know enough to "Say for sure" what it is in the upload. So i just leave it up for debate so I dont look like an idiot...LOL

[@jasperscott5426]

So there are actually people who can repair sections on arrowheads, correct??

[@rockscousteau]

Yes. The guy in Florida can restore anything. From crocks. Broken marbles, Bottles, All of it. Type "Arrowhead Restoration Florida" into a search engine like Bing. "Gomers Lithic Art restoration" is the name of the place. If you have nice stuff like this point. it is worth doing. I get this restored and then try and sell it .... $100.00 at the least.

[@howardmellott9682]

How much do they charge to repair a tip or barb?

[@rockscousteau]

Well for the tiny piece of a clovis base it was like $30.00. And after you do a few points....you get deals on bulk. Lets say you send 30 points. They may charge like $21.00 each. It depends on how much damage as well. It the tip is gone and both barbs it may cost $50 I dunno. But it is worth it on nice pieces. That have a little damage like this point. It increases the value. And just picture this with the barb on it...it would be MIND BLOWING. So Ill have to get it fixed.

[@JustinDickerman]

jewel grade chalcedony possibly for that "gem" piece

[@rockscousteau]

To be honest man. I personally do not know what to call it. (The Material). There is so much Agate/Jasper/Chert/and stuff like that in the river gravel. Almost every point I find on this stretch of river is made of something different. From Flint Ridge to some exotic agate. it is there. And that is crazy.

[@JustinDickerman]

@@rockscousteau I hear ya...let's make life easier and just call it all microcrystalline silica! lol