Can you identify this piece of clay pot? (solved)

[doodman]

I found this piece of clay pottery (my first real find!). I was looking for arrowheads actually, because I've heard this place may have had natives in the area. It was on the side of a creek on a gravel bed. It has a bit of dark red paint on the inside. I believe in was some sort of clay pot. It has the circular lines inside. The outside edges are glazed / shiny. It seems to flare out. I do not see any markings.

I scaled it out on a sheet of paper in order to make a "complete circle" and figure it would have been 7" in diameter.

I found it here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou....939785,-78.987099&spn=0.001294,0.002411&z=19

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Doodman,

Just a friendly word of advice, if it was me I would not give a Google link to where I found any artifacts, nor any picture that identify the location. Your just telling anyone who happens by where to look, they do not even need to register. If you happen to stumble onto a virgin site you would have told everyone in the world were to go get them....

It is hard to tell by the pictures, need better pictures to see into the sides to tell what it was made of, but just going off your pictures, it appears to be more modern, and not ancient...

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Yeah, the base of a pot, is the glaze black? If so I think 18th C

 

[Broken knee]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Doodman, It would appear to be salt glaze jug or crock fragment and at 7" probably one gal.. Keep looking the arrowheads cant be faraway.
Broken Knee

 

[kuger]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Looks like the earthen ware chinese pots we find.19th early 20th century

 

[doodman]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Thanks for the info folks! Just a clarification, I know it is not "ancient". I figured it may have been 100 years old. Then again it could be 1 year old with all the urbanisation. Whitby has grown from 40 000 when out family moved here to 110 000 in just 20 years! There is an abandoned railway bridge (with cement piers, also found in the next city, Ajax) 500 feet downstream. This place is called the "Devil's Den". It was used by horse thieves as a layover.

I'll just call this one solved and think of this piece as a 1 gallon booze jug for horse thieves of the late 19th century lol

Thanks again!

 

[kuger]

Re: Can you identify this piece of clay pot?

Thanks for the info folks! Just a clarification, I know it is not "ancient". I figured it may have been 100 years old. Then again it could be 1 year old with all the urbanisation. Whitby has grown from 40 000 when out family moved here to 110 000 in just 20 years! There is an abandoned railway bridge (with cement piers, also found in the next city, Ajax) 500 feet downstream. This place is called the "Devil's Den". It was used by horse thieves as a layover.

I'll just call this one solved and think of this piece as a 1 gallon booze jug for horse thieves of the late 19th century lol

Thanks again!

Again,especially since there is a railway nearby,and the Chinese built most of the tracks....I would say it is a Chinese Brown glaze pot.

 

[timekiller]

I've got hundreds of pieces of old shards of all types.I use them to help me decide on sites I hunt.As I have not mastered all the different types yet.I'll give you a site.That will help you alot on many kinds and types just from shards.Spend some time looking it over you can choose from colonial to post colonial time frames to narrow it down.There are many pics. that can be opened up in the site that will give you close up pics.to help you decide.Some day I hope to make a big showcase of all mine with time frames and info on them to show the history of them and this site will play a big part for me most likely. Use the left side to pick the time frame and it will then drop down many types just go through them clicking and each one pulls up info and other pics. of the types (close ups & info about each).I might be a little overboard in my ways But to me every item has a story to tell!
http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Historic_Ceramic_Web_Page/Historic_Main.htm

 

[kuger]

Here are a few of the Chinese pots I am talking about from my collection