stone cup

[Out Of Time]

Found this stone cup.

It's pretty wonderful.

 

[MAMucker]

Very Cool!

 

[ohp733]

Nice find. Congrats !

 

[smokeythecat]

That one's very nice. Do you know what it's made of?

 

[Indian Steve]

Nice!

 

[GaRebel1861]

Pretty cool looking. What part of the country did you find it?

 

[Rege-PA]

Nice find! Could have been a small mortar to grind up paint pigments or medicinal plants, roots, etc. Amazingly sometimes the new scanning microscopes can find small particles of what it had ground.

 

[Out Of Time]

Nice find! Could have been a small mortar to grind up paint pigments or medicinal plants, roots, etc. Amazingly sometimes the new scanning microscopes can find small particles of what it had ground.

I call it a cup or vessel but, of course, don't know it's true use.

I doubt it was used to drink from.

 

[Out Of Time]

Pretty cool looking. What part of the country did you find it?

Creek find in Napa, California.

 

[Tdog]

Material looks to be steatite. Nice find.

 

[Out Of Time]

That one's very nice. Do you know what it's made of?

It's made from regular old creek stone, which I am embarrassed to admit, I can't precisely identify.

Most bowl type mortars in Northern California are made from this type of rock that is the most common found in our creeks.

I think maybe a limestone or some other sedimentary type.

It's granular and easy to grind.

It ranges in size from pebbles to large boulders.

 

[Out Of Time]

Material looks to be steatite. Nice find.

Really?

I had thought steatite was more finely grained and not as common.

But I just googled it and saw that steatite has a range of looks and some is very like this example.

Now I wonder if I have a bunch of steatite artifacts...

 

[quito]

Hard to beat a find like that!! Good job!

 

[Geradot]

mortar ...