Help! Pottery? Or No.

[NC field hunter]

I have had this piece for about 2 weeks now . I'll look at it one time and say "I finally found NC pottery". 10 minutes later I'll say no, just a rock. Can y'all tell me once and for all. It is harder than most pottery I have. However, only one chard in my collection is from NC. Here it is!?!?















Thanks for any help at all.

 

[stefen]

rock

 

[NC field hunter]

rock

Ok. Thanks. That was what I thought until I talked myself out of that thought . Can you elaborate any? Tell me what the give away Is, so I don't make this mistake down the road? Thanks again!

 

[rock]

Most pottery will have some items mixed in, like mica, shell, bone and of course clay. That is what I find in mine. And the texture is usually gritty and thin.

 

[hotrod]

cool

 

[NC field hunter]

Most pottery will have some items mixed in, like mica, shell, bone and of course clay. That is what I find in mine. And the texture is usually gritty and thin.

If you will, get gator to post some of his. I know region is off, but he has some thick pieces. I know pottery is around here. I have found 1 sad lonely chard. I honestly think all of my permissible grounds predate pottery. I think once again! That "thinking" has gotten me "Tarred and feathered" more than once!

 

[larson1951]

rock

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Just a rock I forgot to send you pictures of nc pottery ill do it today

Johnathan Griswold

 

[timekiller]

Hard to imagine not finding no pottery here.I've got some places that are so remote that the pottery is so thick it makes it hard to find other artifacts.I've given away quite a few buckets of it over the years.Here's some I've got laying around right now.But it was used from anything from their pipes to bowls & kettles.Here's something I was reading awhile back about N.C. pottery that was cool to read for me on how old some of it has dated to being late Archaic...........................
http://www.rla.unc.edu/Publications/NCArch/NCA_48(e-book).pdf

Here's some of the type I find here.................
Take Care,
Pete,

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Hard to imagine not finding no pottery here.I've got some places that are so remote that the pottery is so thick it makes it hard to find other artifacts.I've given away quite a few buckets of it over the years.Here's some I've got laying around right now.But it was used from anything from their pipes to bowls & kettles.Here's something I was reading awhile back about N.C. pottery that was cool to read for me on how old some of it has dated to being late Archaic...........................
http://www.rla.unc.edu/Publications/NCArch/NCA_48(e-book).pdf

Here's some of the type I find here.................
Take Care,
Pete,

All i can say is dude!

Johnathan Griswold

 

[rock]

That is amazing amount of pottery. Truly I have only found 1 piece of pottery here with cord marks on it. Everything else has been plain and so thin and brown in color. I am in Ga.

 

[GatorBoy]

Most pottery will look a little like a sandwich..in that the interior of the Chard will be slightly different in color than the part that was exposed to the sun or heat if fired. Depending on how old it is it could be fiber tempered.. San tempered.. or even broken pottery tempered..that is it was mixed with those materials when wet to prevent cracking when drying.pottery first showed up in archaic times in north America...Some belive from the Louisiana area some from Mexico or Texas. I also have spots that the pottery is so numerous that finding other items is a chore.

 

[GatorBoy]

I could send you some if you want. Once you handle a few pieces its pretty easy to tell.

 

[GatorBoy]

I find alot of different designs. They represent different tribes from different areas of my state so I can tell who they were trading with. You can figure out alot with that info and follow the trail so to speak. I find new sites that way.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Most pottery will look a little like a sandwich..in that the interior of the Chard will be slightly different in color than the part that was exposed to the sun or heat if fired. Depending on how old it is it could be fiber tempered.. San tempered.. or even broken pottery tempered..that is it was mixed with those materials when wet to prevent cracking when drying.pottery first showed up in archaic times in north America...Some belive from the Louisiana area some from Mexico or Texas. I also have spots that the pottery is so numerous that finding other items is a chore.

That is amazing to see that much exposed pottery in one place! There has to be so many more artifacts just under the sand!

 

[GatorBoy]

Yes alot.. although if that site had been closer to good lithic material there would have been alot more points and chipped stone.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Yes alot.. although if that site had been closer to good lithic material there would have been alot more points and chipped stone.

So just pottery shards?

 

[GatorBoy]

No!! Alot of nice artifacts! Just not nearly as much chert as if it were up by you or even farther north in Florida.

 

[GatorBoy]

That came from there

 

[NC field hunter]

All i can say is dude!

Johnathan Griswold

I second that Jonathon.