pottery plummet

GatorBoy · Feb 16, 2013

I know alot of you have seen this before.. my purpose for posting it now .. is with all the new faces I was wondering if anyone else has come across this rare type of artifact. I have only seen a photo of one other that belongs to TomClark. And I wish that was a better photo. Either way If you have a plummet That is somehow odd or made of a strange material please post it.

Wildcat1750 · Feb 16, 2013

Nice plummet! Glad you posted it again since I am one of those newcomers that didn't see it the first time around.

GaRebel1861 · Feb 16, 2013

I wish I had one to post.

rock · Feb 16, 2013

I read where the one like you have was worn like a Pendant. It was on a site that was selling them. So I cant remember which site I saw it, sorry

The Grim Reaper · Feb 16, 2013

I have a bunch of Plummets, but they are all made from stone.

That is a nice Pottery example.

GatorBoy · Feb 16, 2013

Thank you... it actually looks like it was made from a Chard from a pottery vessel.

GatorBoy · Feb 16, 2013

I have shell but no stone..haha

tomclark · Feb 17, 2013

A pottery pendant, made from a sherd.

Fossil Bone plummet and point found same day

GatorBoy · Feb 17, 2013

Haha.. Hey what's up Tom!? Nice finds there! Looks like you threw in a photo of that pottery plummet also. I have a couple questions... do you think the fossil plummet is Dugong rib? Also.... on the pottery pendant.... does it show the layers of the pottery on the edges? Or is it one consistent color as if it is not broken? I ask because I have so many drilled pieces broken in different shapes some being worn down on the edges but still visibly broken.

But then I have these.. none of which are broken

GatorBoy · Feb 17, 2013

Yours for sure looks like a pendant. I'm mostly just posting these because I've seen people try to sell these as pendants.. a few more broken pieces.

tomclark · Feb 18, 2013

Yes, I think it's dugong rib bone. The pendant has worked/smoothed edges and doesn't have the "layers" that some pottery has. But I think it was made on a broken sherd that had the design on it and the pottery was fired right and had the right mixture so that it doesn't have an inner layer. Even the hole might have been an original mending hole.
I have a few sherds that have three holes for mending and a few that fit together hole to hole with another piece. The pottery plumment doesn't have layers either. Holey Potsherds!

GatorBoy · Feb 18, 2013

Hey..Thanks.. Batman... Three's a crowd anyway.

NC field hunter · Feb 18, 2013

tomclark said:
A pottery pendant, made from a sherd.

Fossil Bone plummet and point found same day

That pottery pendant is rad! You can see the sides have been worked down to the desired shape. Rad!!

GatorBoy · Feb 18, 2013

Isn't it! The only two I have are round but broken in half. My buddy found a whole one the same day...his is check stamped perfectly round disc pendant drilled in the center... DANGIT!

Jon Stewart · Feb 18, 2013

What is a plummet?

Gator, I have an almost whole round disc like your second picture and the folks I hunt with out west refer to it as a whirl (toy), Its made out of broken pottery with a hole in the middle.