Heartbreaker Pot

[DreamcatcherNC]

Maybe next time

 

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[DreamcatcherNC]

Pardon the double pics. Age has its drawbacks!

 

[d2]

The rest of it wasnt there? I hate finding those like that. I once found 3, all set into one another and the tops were all gone. I cried all the way home. Still you have a lot more of one than most folks. A great find in my book regardless of how much you have...d2

 

[Jonnyreb]

Good work all the same. Those are very seldom found whole anyway. Theres a real nice lady that comes on here a lot that might can give ya pointers on restoring pottery. I seen some of her work. Of course theres also Matt who does it all the time too.
Were I you, I'd excavate another few feet around that hole though. The other peices surely cant be that far off.

 

[steve71]

dang i never found a pot only pieces,sweet

 

[pickaway]

Nice pics & great find...

 

[DreamcatcherNC]

I found these two surface find sherds in the same general area. I'm going to scratch around in the general area a little more...

 

[WhiteCountyPaleo]

 

[unitas]

Very,Very nice. Even incomplete a very splendid find. I love rim sherds.

 

[creekhunter]

Yeah, dig around some more, more of it is bound to be nearby.

 

[Airborne80]

Man!!! That's still a great find. I have a feeling that the others are correct. If you pick around, you may find the other part, parts or some other cool item. Very Nice!

 

[Jonnyreb]

Forgive my ignorance of your region, but I couldnt help but notice the flecks in the shards of your last pic. I know its the temporing material, but is it bone shell, quartz or limestone? Most of it here is gonna be bone, with sometimes fresh water muscle shell mixed in. Again, great find there.

 

[DreamcatcherNC]

It's Milky Quartz or white flint in the local vernacular. The greatest majority of sherds I've found in the area have the milky quartz as the tempering agent. You can see closer examples in this pic.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Nice find Dreamcatcher. Most of our Pottery in my area of southern Ohio is tempered with Mussel Shell.

Here is a piece I exposed while digging a trash pit. When I first exposed it I was hoping it would be whole and I kept digging around it and finding more of it, but unfortunately it came out in two pieces and that all that was there. I dug the pit out completely and didn't find any more pieces of this particular Pot.

I also included a couple of pics of some Pottery rims with handles.

 

[DreamcatcherNC]

Nice stuff dorkfish! I'd like to find some with the handles like you have. For the most part, the sherds I've found are either flint or creek sand tempered. Have found nothing with handles.

 

[*Molly*]

Great finds guys, guess I'd need to start diggin to find pots/shards, Nah, think I'll stick to pointy rocks.
Congrats on your finds.

Molly.

 

[GL]

I have found plenty of sherds but none as large as those.
I will gladly collect ANYTHING of Native American origin. Apart from trinkets and souvenirs, I like the old stuff.

 

[Atlantis0077]

Morning,

I think the indians just threw out pottery to baffle us looking today. I mean you will find pieces...I mean nice ones in an area that has had little in the way of disturbances. Just one piece of a pot...maybe a large one. Where the heck is the rest. Its like they just took a pot, broke it into pieces and went for a walk distributing it over miles...LOL.

One year I was digging in a village area. Found what must have been a trash pit. It would have had the volume of no more than 10 gallon bucket. I found pieces of 31 distinct pots!! In another place I found a 5 gallon bucket full of broken pottery. All PLAIN...not one piece fit with another and all came from the same hole....go figure.

I have never found a piece with a lug on it like you show there. Here we find quite a few pieces with holes in it though....whether used to tie together a crack or hang it on a strong I dont know...maybe both.

Happy Hunting

Atlantis

 

[DreamcatcherNC]

I've seen archaeological estimates that put pottery breakage during the firing process at about 50%. They didn't use kilns so open-pit firings were subject to gusts of wind, etc. The cooling process is the most critical for this type of pottery. A gust of wind can cause a distinct change in temperature and the clay will contract and crack.
It has also been determined that sherds of broken pottery would be pulverized and used as temper in new pots since it will never revert back to clay. I just wish they would have left a few more whole pots lying around for us to find.