Western Kentucky man finds largest Clovis point ever found in North America

For lifelong artifact hunter Darrel Higgins, finding an arrowhead was nothing new, but the one he found recently in Western Kentucky was special: It is bigger than any other ever found in North America. "The item, described as a Clovis point made of Buffalo River chert, was submerged in a creek bed when Higgins stumbled upon it," Kyser Lough of the Murray Ledger & Times reports. Eastern Kentucky artifact expert Tom Davis dated the point back to the days when prehistoric man roamed the earth and hunted large game, perhaps 15,000 years ago, and reported the 9 3/4 inch by 2 3/4 inch specimen sets a new North American record by measure.

"As soon as I picked it up, I knew what I had," Higgins, who declined to say where exactly he found the arrowhead, told Lough. "It's usually a long walk back to my truck. Not that day, I was walking on air." He added "There are some skeptics because of the size of it. But it's a record. There's one as long found in Washington state but it's not as wide." Higgins lives in Hickman County but "said he has found items in the Lynn Grove area of Calloway County and knows people who have uncovered artifacts in the Clarks River," Lough writes. He hasn't decided whether to sell the arrowhead. (Read more)