Pottery Shard with a hole

[NCPeaches]

I spent most of the day in the creek, went upstream for a good ways and found just glass so thought I'd take a break about 3:50 and then went back in only down stream this time and raked some sand bars on the bends. Glad I did because this nice shard rolled up and then right after a small flake, I'm not sure on the flake like it could be a broken point but it's hard to tell. Anyway, I had almost given up on finding anything so I'm happy to have another shard with a hole Also, it's a rim.
Front side
Flip side

 

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[quito]

Nice one!

 

[ncnurseryman]

That's cool. You think the hole was for cordage?

 

[rock]

Great pics and a nice piece with designs and a drilled piece at that. You would think with all the pottery I find there could be just 1 with a drilled hole. Nice find

 

[NCPeaches]

That's cool. You think the hole was for cordage?

That's what I was told yesterday by an archeologist when he was looking at one I found last year. I've read that sometimes there were repair pots and these were laced on with cords. This shard is almost flat and I have another just like it without the hole that is flat as well so now I'm speculating on was the pot really large or what style pot would have almost flat sides.

 

[Mark Todd]

Nice find, making your afternoon well spent! Here's one I picked up 25 or 30 years ago in my county "Fulton" ILLINOIS. The holed piece and the handled one above right made me a hunter. If memory serves the local archaeologist called it all Yankeetown pottery. Most amazing thing is: everything in the picture and a bunch more smaller pieces were all picked up in a plowed field same day. How the biggest piece escaped the plows and cultivation is baffling.

 

[NCPeaches]

Those are nice Mark Todd...I know how one shard can turn you into a hunter, the same thing happened to me March almost 2 yrs ago after finding a real nice one in the creek and now I have 200+ shards and some stone points and tools too. I'm officially hooked on hunting anything artifact and can never get enough.

 

[yakker]

Nice pottery- and explanation Yakker

 

[sandchip]

You couldn'the ask for a nicer shard of fabric marked pottery, Peaches.

 

[NCPeaches]

Look how they fit together! I found the other piece without the hole down stream of where I found the one today...Summer of 2013

 

[Mark Todd]

NCpeaces, now I'm going to make you laugh, at me that is. I meant to type "made me a happy hunter". But the irony is that I did have the same kind of one time experience and hooked for life that you related. Hope I don't bore you with a story and another pic. It was in 1973or74,I was hunting morels (mushrooms) in a ravine on our Spoon River bluff property and needed to cross a freshly moldboard plowed field to get to the next ravine. The piece in the picture is of course what I found "THE HOOK"! You know. It looked like someone had washed it up in the creek and then pressed it into the plow slab just hard enough that it wouldn't fall back off. Best of luck to you!

 

[NCPeaches]

Mark Todd, not boring at all and love your story! I can certainly see how that one hooked you and I should say hook, line and sinker at that...we are never the same after

 

[monsterrack]

Peaches I have read of some pots that where larger than 3ft across and that is so cool that you found the matching piece

 

[old digger]

Persistence pays off! Good to see that you were able to find a matching piece. Good Going!

 

[curious kat]

How wonderful Peaches!!! I was just peeking in Tnet before going to bed & saw this....so of course had to log in and say "Congrats" on the super find. Plus a matching piece.....so happy for ya!

 

[Americus]

That is a nice find Peaches. I have found one piece with a hole in it in all the years I've hunted.

 

[Tnmountains]

Very cool. A hole in the rim does make one stop and think! I mean they did make handles too. I guess what ever they wanted?

 

[NCPeaches]

Very cool. A hole in the rim does make one stop and think! I mean they did make handles too. I guess what ever they wanted?

Yeah and I've been speculating and searching all week trying to figure it out lol ... going back to that spot after work today for bout an hour and see if I missed anything.

 

[ptsofnc]

Look how they fit together! I found the other piece without the hole down stream of where I found the one today...Summer of 2013
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Amazing that you found two pieces that fit separated both by time and distance. Thanks for posting.