✅ SOLVED Find the pottery game

[rock]

I hope everyone will play along. Rack did the point game and Ill do the pottery game. There is 3 piles and only 1 pile is pottery. I find so much lookalike pottery in the creek. See if you can pick the rite pile. This will be fun.
1, 2 or 3 your choice and one pile is really pottery shards.
Lets see your skills, rock

 

[NCPeaches]

Yeah try finding some pottery in that creek. Its allot of bending and flipping. If the shard is in the current face down and you flip it with your stick it will actually move quite fast cause the pottery is lighter. If it is stone it will move slow. Thats how I can tell. If its on a gravel bar it is usually on top of some grass sitting sideways. Rocks will usually be flat or under some sand.

I find mine mostly the same way with one exception, there is a lot of sand in my creek and sometimes when it's been a while since the last rain and I'm not finding anything I will use a garden rake and rake the sand out of the water and sometimes shards will float to the top and if I'm having a really good day a point might surface too. Normally I find shards two at a time and they are usually different colors, I have never found just one and I find that really strange.

 

[Tnmountains]

#4

 

[GatorBoy]

#4

Yeah that's where I'm at... definitely Number Four.

 

[ROCKateer]

Allot of good guesses so far. Still quite a few havent played. Most do their hunts on the weekends so Monday evening I will reveal the answer.

I believe it is third (3) picture. Grays right plus you can see the small lighter shades of one of the materials used to make clay.

 

[ROCKateer]

Allot of good guesses so far. Still quite a few havent played. Most do their hunts on the weekends so Monday evening I will reveal the answer.

Also Mr. Rock what do you think of this piece. Is it pottery or an old clay pigeon. Maybe that could be another game. To me It seems much harder than clay pigeons.

 

[GatorBoy]

That looks like a piece of old ceramic sewer pipe.

 

[ROCKateer]

That looks like a piece of old ceramic sewer pipe.

Oh. Haha. Really. Well I guess my guess could be wrong.

 

[yakker]

without reading anyone else's replies, I say pile number 1. I can see little shiny inclusions. I can't see those in the other two piles. But those pics aren't the best either. The light is awful.

 

[yakker]

(I really did skip everyone's replies). But again- number 1. Don't look for curvature- rocks have curves sometimes... as a matter of fact, I've found pieces of rock that look as if they might have been a rock bowl once, but I'm never really sure, and I leave those pieces behind. It's those tiny sparkly bits in the first pieces that caught my eye right off the bat. Even with the bad lighting. Good challenge. Thanks!

 

[rock]

(I really did skip everyone's replies). But again- number 1. Don't look for curvature- rocks have curves sometimes... as a matter of fact, I've found pieces of rock that look as if they might have been a rock bowl once, but I'm never really sure, and I leave those pieces behind. It's those tiny sparkly bits in the first pieces that caught my eye right off the bat. Even with the bad lighting. Good challenge. Thanks!

I have actually found a piece of stone bowl in the same creek but just further down from where I find this pottery. Ill show you a pic of it so you know what to look for and the texture is much different really smooth and no grainy feel at all.

 

[rock]

without reading anyone else's replies, I say pile number 1. I can see little shiny inclusions. I can't see those in the other two piles. But those pics aren't the best either. The light is awful.

I use glasses while on the comp it really helps

 

[GatorBoy]

The fact that it is the right material for that type of artifact in your area... steatite/ "soap stone" is a big factor in the I.D. also.
Of A stone bowl.

 

[rock]

OK I have made plans for Monday so I will reveal the answer to the shards. It is #3
The 1st pile is flat creek stained rocks which by the way is every where.
The 2nd pile is Limestone and Sandstone. Sandstone has mica in it and looks like pottery.
The 3rd pile is the shards. These are plain pieces. I give the plain pieces away as gifts.
Thanks to everyone for playing the game but most got it rite, HH rock

 

[GatorBoy]

After hunting your area for a while you should be able to see the difference very quickly rock.
Your just getting used to it..I did that at first too.
I can see midden patina and work on shells in a sea of shells now.
Natural lighting would have helped alot.

 

[River Rat]

Yeah, I got one right for a change.

 

[rock]

The black rocks in the first pic I did wet them first so they looked like what I see in the creek. When they dry you can tell they are just rocks. Probably slate

 

[hbrown22]

Torn between 1 & 3, but I'm gonna go with #3 because of the composition. Looks like different materials were mixed up then hardened.

 

[yakker]

Glasses.... Never thought of that... So yeah, the chump got stumped. Not the first time either. Great game! Let's place another! HH, Yak

 

[hbrown22]

Looks like the answer was posted yesterday and I didn't even see it! I see lots of #1, looks like I need to throw some stuff in the rock pile, lol.

 

[GatorBoy]

If number one is slate like he said..there would be no question once you touched it..they feel nothing alike.