NC Indian pottery

[fever87]

Yesterday I headed down to Bertie Co., NC with an older friend who grew up down there to try our luck MD'ing around old home sites he knew of. Nothing of interest was found at the first three places. So we went to an old friend of his who has property that includes frontage on a navigatable tributary of the Ablemarle Sound. As we met up with the gentlemen he relayed some of the history of the place as we stood on the bank of the creek. As he was telling us of the area he pointed out some potteyr shards in the water and on the banks saying "and then there's all this old indian pottery too". Wait a minute! What was that? I looked down and sure enough it seemed all over. I picked up a handful and then a second and took them to the truck, and went back for more. I ended up with 70 pieces! And not a single arrowhead to be found amongst it all. It definitely made up for the lack of finds with the metal detector!

 

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[cooper36]

nice

 

[River Rat]

Nice pottery pieces. Always like finding ones with designs on it.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Their old , really old , and it's great that you posted them interesting native American artifacts 8) dawg

 

[tomjiggy]

Hikeinmts can atest to what I'm about to say, but there's probably enough there to put a pot together... My Dad and I have recovered "some" pottery in the past, and I've helped put some of it back together. If it's not too worn you can usually match up some pieces here and there. We use superglue(use very little as fingers have been known to get stuck together) Dad needs to send me some more pottery pics so I can post them for him, show off some of his collection.

 

[Sonnydigs]

Very nice pottery shreds...Very nice example of several types..
For sure a camp site or burial in the area..
Shards are glass..

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice eyeballing! I have a similar site here where I've found several hundred pieces of almost identical looking pottery, but only 2 points in over 10 years of searching there. Just go back every few months or after a big storm and you might be surprised what turns up. Are you seeing a lot of oyster shells too??

 

[hikeinmts]

OK son,,,,,,,got the hint. (To: tomjiggy)
Yes, there seem to be a whole lot of pieces, and it would surprise me if there were not several pieces
that fit together.....and maybe enough to make up part of a bowl, or some other type of pottery.
We've done it in S. Korea, fitting 30 or 40 pieces together to make a nice piece. Look for the same
type of design, and then try fitting them together. If they are a true fit, they almost snap in place.
And it does look like just a very little super glue will hold them together.....keep good pressure on the
two pieces you are trying to fit together, and count slowly to 100. Should remain in place.
Hope it works for you.
A hunter in S. Korea

 

[birdman]

There is an old bayou where I grew up at that was like that .At low tide you could pick up buckets of pottery but I never found an arrow head there.

 

[fever87]

Nice eyeballing! I have a similar site here where I've found several hundred pieces of almost identical looking pottery, but only 2 points in over 10 years of searching there. Just go back every few months or after a big storm and you might be surprised what turns up. Are you seeing a lot of oyster shells too??

Bill, quite a few shells down there. I was told that when there is a good west wind you can just about walk across the creek as it is gets quite low. I don't think I can watch the weather that closely but I hope to make it back down there by spring (before all the critters are out).

 

[looking4largecent]

Nice pottery, we find loads of that here in iowa along the waterways.