Excised

[Bow Only]

This piece of Ft Walton pottery is shell tempered and excised. It came from inside a cave in NW FL (8Ja65). This excising came after the pot was fired and is the only piece of excised pottery I have ever found. I've found a lot of pottery. There is a remote possibility that the excising occurred in modern times but from where I found it, that seems highly unlikely. What are your thoughts as to what the design means?

 

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[tonykidd]

That's pretty awesome. I've never found anything like that, just the standard stuff. I'd love to find a cave somewhere; the county sealed off every one here years ago. Very cool.

 

[quito]

This piece of Ft Walton pottery is shell tempered and excised. It came from inside a cave in NW FL (8Ja65). This excising came after the pot was fired and is the only piece of excised pottery I have ever found. I've found a lot of pottery. There is a remote possibility that the excising occurred in modern times but from where I found it, that seems highly unlikely. What are your thoughts as to what the design means?

The design is cool, but like nothing I have ever seen. Backwoodsbob will likely have an opinion you can disregard.
Oh, and the word you are looking for to describe this piece is "incised", not excised.

 

[Bow Only]

The design is cool, but like nothing I have ever seen. Backwoodsbob will likely have an opinion you can disregard.
Oh, and the word you are looking for to describe this piece is "incised", not excised.

Incised is the term that describes pottery that has been marked, cut, perforated, or decorated prior to the heat altering process of ceramic wares. Excised is the term that describes ceramic wares that have been decorated or altered after the tempering or firing process has occurred. Sometimes the term "engraved" can be used in the place of excised.

 

[catherine1]

Most of the "excised" pottery that I find has stick figures.......your tribe looks much more advanced.

 

[quito]

"Incised is the term that describes pottery that has been marked, cut, perforated, or decorated prior to the heat altering process of ceramic wares. Excised is the term that describes ceramic wares that have been decorated or altered after the tempering or firing process has occurred. Sometimes the term "engraved" can be used in the place of excised."

Thanks Bowonly It's nice to learn something new! Never heard excised used like that before, I had no clue. You sure you have that right though? This is what I found regarding excised pottery when I looked it up.

.excised...excised decoration: CATEGORY: ceramics. DEFINITION: Pottery decoration produced by cutting strips or shapes out of the soft clay surface *before* firing.

 

[rock]

Looks like a plant to me the carving.

 

[Bow Only]

Looks like a plant to me the carving.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. It looks like land or water under it. I thought it was pretty cool.

Excised means "to cut out." For ceramics, it is when material is removed after tempering when the material has hardened and not easily removed. Engraved is the term they use more now but when I learned ceramic typology 30 years ago, they used the term excised.

 

[monsterrack]

The pottery made by the local tribe right before the French moved into this are is all excised. I was taught old school I still call pottery pieces sherds not shards since shards relate to broken glass but what the heck we know what we mean. Lol !!!! Some local stuff.