has anyone seen pottery with disigns on the interior?

[GatorBoy]

Found a couple recently. This is both sides.

 

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[budsmith19]

I haven't seen that before. Interesting

 

[natchitoches]

never seen anything like it before,i would say you found something pretty rare

 

[GatorBoy]

I was thinking so too. NEAT

 

[Age_old]

Wow I've never seen that before. Maybe the grooves on the inside were used for grinding. Could have been part of a paint maker; they would grind berries and beetles on the grooves to make paint. Very cool!

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm stoked too. I have three now. I hit a boat load of pottery yesterday.

 

[Age_old]

Hit it hard! You might find the pestle.

 

[GatorBoy]

Some real cool pottery there. Even a pottery plummet

 

[Age_old]

Wow, thats really unique. Are you sifting this stuff, or eyeballing it?

 

[GatorBoy]

Sifting a bog like area I found while contracted to install a fish pond for a real cool Guy that lives close to a very old spring. Its muddy and full of mosquitoes but well worth it.

 

[flintdigger]

I have seen a few pot shards with design's around the top rim but not too many.

 

[Age_old]

That sounds like a killer spot, man! How big is the spring? It might be worth it for you to dive or dig there, too. Springs always have tons of potential; they were almost always occupied by indians and they preserve stuff really well. Sucks on the Mosquitos, though.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I've never seen pottery with a design on both sides. Interesting and thanks for showing.

 

[GatorBoy]

The site is awesome. It seems pretty stratified below the surface too. I was talking with the land owner about continuing my work there to a point. I'm keeping records and running string where I can then let the local historical society in.. but... We both have had bad experiences with Archie's so its just talk for now.(he said he wants me to supervise) I'm not sure about that one. Archie's are generally a huge pain.

 

[stefen]

What you are seeing is not an intentional design but tracks of a construction tool and method...

It probably a coil pot and the interior and exterior coil surfaces were smoothed using a tool of some kind....

 

[old digger]

Nice Find!

 

[NC field hunter]

Nice. So the design was not decoration, but more construction? Cool, like stucco. Try to find the tool man.

 

[GatorBoy]

I appreciate your input Stefen but I'm very aware of coil design and tool marks from construction..I've seen thousands. It is neither.also I'm very familiar with the method of pottery construction of this tribe and coil was not used

 

[GatorBoy]

Just to be thorough here's tool marks and design from the same site.





thanks OldDigger.

 

[River Rat]

Cool finds! I was at the LA Treasures Museum, when Wayne pointed out some of his finds had designs inside & outside. This was several months ago, it was really neat looking at them & hoping to find some one day.