For the pottery/rock guys and girls

[naturegirl]

Found in the Caney River in southern Kansas. At first I thought pottery, then rock, then sewer pipe? I don't think the white is glaze, because it's on the broken edges too. So if the white is patina, it broke a long time ago. If it was a piece of pottery/crock, it was big, and hence the ripples, or grips. Or those are just wave action from the shallow sea we had here. It looks to have a shiny, mica-like fragments in it. Sounds like clay/pottery when you tap it hard surface. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for looking-

naturegirl

 

[Red James Cash]

Could be bedrock but ive never been to kansas to know what kansas bedrock looks like. The ripples could be from water wear. I prospect in mountain streams and have seen plenty of ripples like that in rock.

 

[naturegirl]

Thanks red James cash, those ripples are all over the place here, in sandstone. But could they be pottery patterns?

 

[Red James Cash]

Welcome, yeah they could be. They look pretty evenly spaced. It could also be a pot ,vase, bowl,something carved out of sandstone then broken at some point in time. I wasnt even thinking sandstone for some reason lol. Im use to thinking bedrock because of how the bedrock where i go breaks up into layers and your piece looks pretty similar.

 

[naturegirl]

James, THIS piece isn't sandstone, I was just saying I am familiar with the ripples, because we have them in sandstone here (okla). I'm sorry, I never state my case very clearly whatever this material is, I haven't seen it before, pretty sure it isn't sandstone. At least not the kind I'm familiar with, maybe I should put this in the Kansas section.

 

[DirtDigler]

Hi Naturegirl, your find looks like calcified stone of some kind. But you mention it sounds like pottery when tapped. So, maybe it's been fired. Thing is, if it is a pot or bowl, it would have to be very large as there is no curvature evident. Or maybe from the bottom of a pot or bowl, although period Native American pottery seldom has a flat bottom. Confused yet? I am!

 

[naturegirl]

No, I follow you Dirtdigler, there is no curvature, it seems it would have had to come from a huge pot, don't think they made them that big. Maybe a more modern crock? OR a sewer pipe, broken long ways? still would have had some curve to it. Maybe it's just a rock....

thanks for the thoughts!