Yesterday Hunt

[rock]

Well darn I went to the creek cause it flooded over the banks last week in hopes of finding some good ones. Nothing but pottery and pieces of broken points. Now my camera is acting up. The 1st pic is a pot bottom with 1 leg on it. Nothing great maybe next time, rock

 

[collector01]

Nice find. Better than getting skunked like my last couple hunts. HH!

 

[mainejman]

Nice Rock ! I don't believe our pots had legs.At least nothing I've seen.You guys still cold down there? We are bouncing back and forth over zero....mjm

 

[ptsofnc]

At least you got out there. Still waiting here for 3-4" rain to really change the creek. Hope you find some nice ones in 2015.

 

[yakker]

Temp plummeting today- and breezy too ack..... Nice pottery! I miss finding pottery... (sigh) Yakker

 

[NCPeaches]

I love pottery finds and can never get enough of them! Your yesterday hunt for me would equal a great day lol I got to spend about an hour in the creek today and found a stoneware/crockery shard not NA, was thinking salt glazed until I researched it and found out it's really alkaline glazed.

 

[rock]

Nice Rock ! I don't believe our pots had legs.At least nothing I've seen.You guys still cold down there? We are bouncing back and forth over zero....mjm

Most of the pot legs were added after the pot was done. A lot of the times the legs will come off first when the pot breaks. Some pots were made without. I believe Mississippian period had them but maybe not Woodland. The 2 shards 1 is from Mississippian and the other from Woodland periods.
Its gotten a bit warmer around 40-50 since last week. But we have had drizzle rain for 2 days, very gloomy.

 

[curious kat]

Glad you got to look rock....those are nice finds and I really do like the way the photos look with the light & shadows on the sides....or was that the camera acting up.

 

[NC field hunter]

I agree Peaches! Any time I find a tiny piece of pottery, I go home happy as a lark. In my neck of the woods pottery is rare. It's never found in plowed fields here, only along water ways. I've found one or two shards in Durham county NC. The others (not including what Larson and Gator gave me) came from VA. ...."happy as a lark" what is a lark? .... Maybe I should stop using that old saying until I can define all of it's words. Lol!

 

[rock]

Thanks everyone. It was better than yesterdays I found. I chased flakes most of the day and didn't find anything good.