By Bob Strohm
bstrohm@wbcowqel.com
After being postponed last Saturday, the Crawford Park District in conjunction with the Johnny Appleseed Chapter 19 of the Archaeological Society of Ohio, held its annual Arrowhead Day on Saturday.
Beginning at 10 a.m. over 100 visitors to Lowe-Volk Park combed five surrounding farm fields in a quest to find stone tools from Ohio’s prehistoric past. While some had no luck in their search, a few people walked away with some fine artifacts.
James Wireman explained what treasures he found in the fields.
“They were saying that one is flint ridge, the smallest one – the purple one. They also said the other one was black onyx,” Wireman said.
Wireman explained the difficulties in finding the pieces.
“I came here with three gentlemen. I was walking behind them and just happened to look down and find all pieces of flint, and I found the perfect piece. Then we went across the road to the other area and we were about to leave that and I found the hat piece.”
Searching the fields together, Alexander Mathews, Susan Mathews and Mindy Hoffman didn’t 
have much luck. However, when their stones were inspected their luck had changed as representatives from the Historical Society had noted that they had come across chert as well as a hammer stone.
“I found a few pieces, probably the best one was chert,” Alexander said.
Jim Hill found a few pieces while searching with family members Paige Hill, Emily Hill, and Ben Vittoria.
“It wasn’t too bad. I kept looking until I found something,” Hill explained. “I found a bird point as well as a partial arrowhead.”
While looking over the fields with his family, Owen Cox had made a single find.
“I found a flint curve stone,” Cox said. “The back piece was sticking out of the ground. It took about 30 minutes of searching to find it.”