anyone ever seen a pottery cone?

[GatorBoy]

I found this a while back on a village site that dates from archaic all the way to contact.
I'm stumped. ( fiber/sand temper)

 

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[Ammonhotep]

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[GatorBoy]

Thanks.. that's a first for me here.

 

[GatorBoy]

Wow.. I just posted this 5 minutes ago And it's already on Google.

 

[bsit1361]

Wow that's quick. Cool find.

 

[naturegirl]

posts hit google so fast because this site is so big, sometimes that's scary! keep in mind you are on a pedistle when you post here! (jeeze, make sure you know how to spell..lol!!!)

 

[GatorBoy]

Haha. Like wild fire I say!

 

[larson1951]

the spiders that google has crawling the internet are pretty quick, high tech....just sayin

 

[Boxtopp]

posts hit google so fast because this site is so big, sometimes that's scary! keep in mind you are on a pedistle when you post here! (jeeze, make sure you know how to spell..lol!!!)

Haha, Crap I never spell right. Constantly miss-spelling stuff makes me wonder why didn't I spell check that..

 

[quito]

I don't see anything that says cone, or shaped by man.

Joel

 

[GatorBoy]

Well of all the pottery from the site which was alot that's the only triangular free standing flat bottomed five sided piece of the bunch.
I'll just call it that.
I don't think pottery would just plop into that shape.
I don't see tool marks but it appears pressed.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here's a small sample from the site.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[NC field hunter]

Gator, you have the piece in hand, so you know more than I do. It looks like part of a hand made brick to me. The shape, I'm clueless. Are you sure it's native made?

 

[Th3rty7]

Geofact imo.

 

[surf]

Hey GB,

I'm thinking it might be 'kiln furniture." Or perhaps something used to upright a cooking pot.

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White man kiln furniture:

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[catherine1]

That is not really cone shaped. And I have never seen small pottery artifacts with straight lines. Nice save.

 

[Hippy]

I tend to agree with several of the others. It looks to be either part of a brick or some modern made, fired clay pieces.

The best way to tell is look at the tempering material. Compare with other pieces of pottery from the site. I would suspect that the tempering material would be quite different from that piece and the other pottery.

Hippy

 

[yakker]

Just staring at that little pyramid/cone thingy and wondering what in the world it really looked like. Kinda looks like a piece of a toy block set, but that doesn't make sense at all. Has there ever been a clay gaming piece- like a die (one of a pair of dice)--anything shaped like that?-- is anything scored on any of the facets? Anywhere anything could have been attached? Reminds me of a lead sinker shape too... Easier to mold than carve That piece is definately perplexing. BTW, please don't leave the site. I've learned too much from you. Yak

 

[bravowhiskey]

a most bizarre form for a geofact (unless one is dealing with crystals of some sort)

I had this posted not so long ago.



(by shape definition at least) a round based pyramid. as opposed to the one posted, which would be a square based pyramid.

It sure could have used as a tool for some purpose.