Found Something Good Today

[CreekSide]

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to go. Water was still a couple feet higher than normal.
I was walking a gravel bar and saw this sitting on the edge. I saw the hole and decided to pick it up. It’s a first for me looks to be a pottery pendant.
I didn’t want to carry it all day so I hid it and picked it up on the way out.
Any ideas on the type let me know.
NW Georgia personal finds on private property with permission.
Wet pictures and dry

 

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[Sandog]

This is definitely an intriguing piece. Looks to be flat on one side, the flip side has a clearly well defined lip on it, and while mother nature is a powerful agent that surely is so distinct, and so close to a perfect circle, that human creation is an unavoidable conclusion. The three slight projections look intentional also, and could have been reduced a good bit by water/sand erosion. If not ancient, what might be a modern alternative? I'd stick with ancient.

 

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[CreekSide]

This is definitely an intriguing piece. Looks to be flat on one side, the flip side has a clearly well defined lip on it, and while mother nature is a powerful agent that surely is so distinct, and so close to a perfect circle, that human creation is an unavoidable conclusion. The three slight projections look intentional also, and could have been reduced a good bit by water/sand erosion. If not ancient, what might be a modern alternative? I'd stick with ancient.

Thanks for taking an interest in it. It’s definitely old and not modern made. It does have a flat side and the other side has a ridge on it as you described.

 

[CreekSide]

That's an amazing and rare find! I hope it has patterns on it, I tried magnifying it to see and thought I saw something.

I looked again today. If there are incised sections I can’t see them. Thanks for your response.

 

[metalman2024]

a stone coin 😁with a hole

 

[unclemac]

worn spindle whorl? https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...&biw=1504&bih=842&dpr=1.5&safe=active&ssui=on

 

[ArfieBoy]

Congratulations on a cool find! When I first saw it, my mind went to wampum. No reason, just popped in my head, but I really don't have any idea. Great find, though!

 

[CreekSide]

worn spindle whorl? https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...&biw=1504&bih=842&dpr=1.5&safe=active&ssui=on

I’ve already checked the possibility of one. The hole is wrong and the 3 nipples aren’t broken. But nice try

 

[newnan man]

Are you sure it's pottery?

 

[CreekSide]

Are you sure it's pottery?

Are you sure it's pottery?

I assumed it was. Has staining on it

 

[CreekSide]

Are you sure it's pottery?

Good question. Looks like schist

 

[metalman2024]

Good question. Looks like schist

the mica in the close-up indicates it very well maybe

 

[CreekSide]

the mica in the close-up indicates it very well maybe

I have a Gorget made from a different type of schist. As it dries out it reveals more detail.

 

[metalman2024]

I have a Gorget made from a different type of schist. As it dries out it reveals more detail.

I've never heard that word before, goes to show we learn something new every day! I looked at images, I saw a neck-worn guard that saved a person's neck on a medieval battlefield. A metallic baby's bib version But you say it's made of schist?

 

[Sandog]

A web search for "Native American Gorget" or even more precisely "Native American Stone Corget" and you will find hundreds of pieces that are similar. Especially interesting is that they almost all share the same type of holes. My guess is they were chamfered to prevent a sharp edge from wearing through whatever they were strung on, or worn down by whatever they were strung on. The later seems unlikely.

 

[metalman2024]

A web search for "Native American Gorget" or even more precisely "Native American Stone Corget" and you will find hundreds of pieces that are similar. Especially interesting is that they almost all share the same type of holes. My guess is they were chamfered to prevent a sharp edge from wearing through whatever they were strung on, or worn down by whatever they were strung on. The later seems unlikely.

makes sense, the study of history reveals a lot of science I think, more practical knowledge that science alone cannot quite cut it, forgotten tools, gadgets and apparels uncovered during metal detecting sheds so much light, I find incredible that ancient societies almost all developed an arrow head for example, quite independently and separated by massive ocean bodies