Indian pottery and trade bead

[Bill D. (VA)]

Right before we moved 3 weeks ago I stopped by my long-time colonial creekfront site on the way home from work. This site has given up a tremendous amount of artifacts over the years. Its about totally devoid of any metallic finds now, but colonial and indian pottery can still be found. Here's a couple pics of my eyeballed finds from that day. I love the cord-marked or fabric-impressed pottery shards. At last count I had found at least 800 pieces from this one small strip of sand. I also found this cool cobalt blue trade bead. Its the first one I've found there. Guess I'll wait until we get a good nor'easter and try there again.

 

[Bramblefind]

Wow! Those are some fantastic finds!

Any idea of what might have been going on there?

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice bead Bill. Would be cool if you could find more of 'em. That is a weird site, almost like a dumping ground for indians and early colonists

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Love those old pottery shards Bill, you've almost
got enough there to make yourself a pot!
I really like the blue glass trade bead, when do you think it dates to?
Looks to be early 18th century French to me.

 

[HISPAN]

good post!
I collecting thousands of pieces of American Indian pottery vessels .... some complete.
Greetings!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Here's the biggest piece of Indian pottery that came from this site

About 8-9 inches across and was about 1/4 of a pot.

 

[collector01]

Great finds, love the bead.

 

[Tony (NC)]

Man that place just won't quit! Hows that finger?

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

love those finds Bill

 

[HISPAN]

Re: Here's the biggest piece of Indian pottery that came from this site

About 8-9 inches across and was about 1/4 of a pot.

WOW ....many congrats !