✅ SOLVED Interesting! But no Idea?

[RJHunter]

Hi,
Here is an item I found recently while digging for old bottles. I was probing in the woods and heard a crunching noise, so I started digging through the roots.
I was finding a lot of broken clay pieces. Some were free formed by hand, some looked like broken handles and others were large flat pieces. I will include some pics of the clay pcs.
I noticed something white pop out from the dirt being pulled from the hole. It was the white swirls stuck in a block of clay and outlined. Note the brown
earthy colored edges of the white porcelain type material. Interesting. At first, I thought, Indian contact period, or maybe from an old pottery factory.
What do you think it could be?
One thing I know for sure is that those roots were poison ivy. I forgot what that felt like.

Thanks, RJ .

 

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[unclemac]

are those white pieces one or 3 separate?

 

[RJHunter]

I believe three separate pieces.

 

[unclemac]

do you think what you found was buried with purpose or buried over time naturally?

 

[RJHunter]

It could have been an area where an old farmstead would have complied stones from the fields,
or an area used for dumping refuse from the farm. The farms no longer exist. There were large rocks with flat workable surfaces.
Also a 30 lb. stone pecked to fit between your legs, with two 3/4" dia. holes being approx. 2-3" deep on a smooth surface.
I thought maybe a large fire starter stone. The item was definitely in the ground, but for how long is the question. Do the clay
pieces look like any type of indian pottery?

 

[unclemac]

no, not really. but the white thing is intriguing...it looks purposefully made to be in the shape it is, it looks like locally sourced clay but what it is stumps me.

 

[GreenHorn]

I believe thats called a Cone Pack used in determining the temperature in kilns...

 

[unclemac]

green horn nailed it

https://www.google.com/search?q=Con...S3oQSU_YGwDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=598

 

[RJHunter]

Thanks GreenHorn, mystery solved. Wonder how old it is?

 

[RJHunter]

Thanks for search unclemac.

 

[jamey]

if your a greenhorn.i know im in trouble.

 

[Digginit]

Cool stuff!
I can see the fingerprints in the clay.

Any chance they're clay cooking balls, used to hold the heat as you cook in the ground.
I have several Poverty Point cooking balls and they're more rounded, not elongated like yours, but have the same kinds of divots.

 

[Rivers rat]

Cool greenhorn i found one didn't know what it was


RR

 

[RJHunter]

I read the pyrometric cone was invented in 1886. Any ideas of age on this cone pack?
Can anyone identify the approx. age of the flat clay composition by its side view picture?
There are very large chunky pieces in the actual content of the clay.
Looks very crude.
Yeah, you can see the fingerprints in the freeform pcs. which is pretty cool.