pendants ??

[jmfg222]

think these are pendants what do you think.feels like and looks to be some sort of sandstone.

 

[badandy]

Without a doubt ancient man work on those! First one I would call a pendant, and the second looks to be more of a bead with the center drilling. Also to thin to be used as a game piece. You sure do have alot of good relics, and thanks for sharing them with us.

badandy

 

[SoIll]

I find those sandstone discs that size all the time (minus the drilling.) I've heard old timers call it indian money. That first one looks like a dalton pendant I've seen before. The others do look like beads, but I've always thought they were probably buttons.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I'd say the first one is definitely a Pendant since it's obvious it was biconically drilled. The second piece looks like a typical Ft Ancient Stone Disc. We find those all the time on our village sites we hunt.

Here's one very similar to yours.

 

[archaeon]

i have always wondered if those center-drilled disks could be spindle weights for making yarn/thread? i know the indians here in florida were excellent weavers. at the depthford site, cloth almost as fine as a t-shirt weave was found.

 

[Hippy]

i have always wondered if those center-drilled disks could be spindle weights for making yarn/thread? i know the indians here in florida were excellent weavers. at the depthford site, cloth almost as fine as a t-shirt weave was found.

I've also heard the same thing with the pottery discs. Most of the time I've seen them called spindle whorls used for spinning threads. It makes sense I guess but I would like to see some data behind the theory. I'll have to look around in some of my site reports.

Hippy

 

[Tricia]

net weights

 

[chong2]

the pottery one is more likely a spindle whorl. could be a gaming piece but more common as a spindle whorl with the hole drilled through

 

[chong2]

or a large bead

 

[pickaway]

Nice...