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At the very last minute I decided to get out for a couple hours after work yesterday. I opened up a new section to sift and things were looking mediocre with a couple buttons and various pieces of broken pottery. It was looking like this section would be the typical one where nothing too great turned up... until.... I was squaring off the walls and doing one last iron removal sweep before getting ready to begin sifting the dirt back in. I squared off one corner and a handful of larger shards appeared. I slowed down and carefully began to excavate the corner and realized that most of two different bowls were down there. All pieces were packed tight and this rarely happens. Typically I find lots of shards but they are all small and only a few times have I found a pocket where large portions are buried together.
What came out of the pocket was large portions of two bowls that I reconstructed. The hand painted blue flower bowl belongs a set that I have been finding many pieces to throughout the last year. I have some parts to matching mugs that must have been purchased as a set at the same time as this bowl. Those blue shards are easily my favorite design that I have pulled from this area, so I was thrilled to get most of a bowl from the set.
After washing and drying the shards, it took a few hours to glue all the pieces back together.
Got a few buttons, including a nice flower button and a lead pencil. There is part of a pewter spoon and a piece of a tombac shoe buckle frame too. The non-ferrous rose heads and other items are in the tumbler now. **The other blue flower shards, above the buttons, belong to a different mug from the same set that was in the same section as the bowl**
Here is part of a mug that I found last year. This would have belonged to the same set that the bowl was from. I have many large boxes of shards with more pieces to the blue flower pottery, so this winter I will sort them and see if I cant match any pieces up and do some more reconstructions.
These were the shards from the pocket yesterday. I typically just toss all the shards from a section into my pouch, but when I get into an area where its evident that I'm finding shards belonging to the same piece of pottery, I will separate them to make the reconstruction easier.
I was excited as I rinsed them off as I saw that many of the pieces matched.
Sorting and drying in preparation to reconstruct them.
What came out of the pocket was large portions of two bowls that I reconstructed. The hand painted blue flower bowl belongs a set that I have been finding many pieces to throughout the last year. I have some parts to matching mugs that must have been purchased as a set at the same time as this bowl. Those blue shards are easily my favorite design that I have pulled from this area, so I was thrilled to get most of a bowl from the set.
After washing and drying the shards, it took a few hours to glue all the pieces back together.
Got a few buttons, including a nice flower button and a lead pencil. There is part of a pewter spoon and a piece of a tombac shoe buckle frame too. The non-ferrous rose heads and other items are in the tumbler now. **The other blue flower shards, above the buttons, belong to a different mug from the same set that was in the same section as the bowl**
Here is part of a mug that I found last year. This would have belonged to the same set that the bowl was from. I have many large boxes of shards with more pieces to the blue flower pottery, so this winter I will sort them and see if I cant match any pieces up and do some more reconstructions.
These were the shards from the pocket yesterday. I typically just toss all the shards from a section into my pouch, but when I get into an area where its evident that I'm finding shards belonging to the same piece of pottery, I will separate them to make the reconstruction easier.
I was excited as I rinsed them off as I saw that many of the pieces matched.
Sorting and drying in preparation to reconstruct them.
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