Broken Adena Blade and Pot Shard

bean man · Aug 27, 2007

I saw my son pick up this broken Adena? from the creek where the point with the impact break, came from. I saw my friend pick up the piece of pottery, from another nearby creek. I think it's Woodland?

badandy · Aug 28, 2007

Keep on those creeks beanman!
badandy

bean man · Aug 28, 2007

Thanks Andy, I will. I think I might need a seeing artifact dog though.

ohioriver hunter · Aug 28, 2007

bean man said:
I saw my son pick up this broken Adena? from the creek where the point with the impact break, came from. I saw my friend pick up the piece of pottery, from another nearby creek. I think it's Woodland?

Nice finds Bean! Jeff

bean man · Aug 28, 2007

Thanks Jeff. Thunderstorm coming, hope it floods my creeks.

irbaddadjoe · Aug 28, 2007

The pottery shard is awesome. To me thats more personal than an arrowhead. I guess cause arrowheads are more common. nice post.

bean man · Aug 29, 2007

Thanks Joe. That's the first for sure piece we've found. Weird thing is, I looked at it laying in the sand, and my mind registers modern, but as soon as I saw it in my buddies hand, I could see it was a piece of pottery.

Johnny X · Aug 29, 2007

There is more there bean!

xstevenx

bean man · Aug 30, 2007

I believe it Steve, but it's definitely not the creeks that never fail.

Cannonman17 · Aug 30, 2007

I could be wrong but if my memory serves me the pottery is a type commonly found with effigy mounds and in campsites from the period. In fact, I believe they even named the type "effigy mound ceramics". I've found thousands and thousands of ceramic shards through my years of point hunting but can only remember finding this type on vary rare occasion. You'll see what I mean as time goes on... you'll find tons and tons of Madison Ware... maybe some Baraboo net wrapped, some Marion Thick, and those types... but the effigy mound type is hard to come by... at least in my neck of the woods. Thanks for posting!

bean man · Aug 30, 2007

Thanks Cannon. All we knew, was it probably was not Marion Thick, because our Iowa book says it's never been found in the interior of the state. We were thinking something called McBride Trail? But we really don't have any idea, so thanks for the info.

Cannonman17 · Aug 30, 2007

Argghh!! I keep forgetting where you live, for some reason I always think you're in Wisconsin... there are so many different varieties of pottery that I can't help you identify what you have there...probably has a localized name/identification. I would say you're right about it's being some type of trailed pottery though. "Trailed" is when the marks on the surface are wider than they are deep and incised is when the lines are deeper than wide, they often get confused. Also looks like it has some holes in it... or "punctate". I hope you find some more pieces! I love the pottery stuff- very interesting to me. By the way, you're not missing anything with the Marion thick stuff, talk about JUNK! Thick, low teperature firing and that combined with it's age means that when I do find it, it's usually crumbling.