piece of pottery?

[naturegirl]

It seems to have crushed shell, looks to be clay, is almost weightless, and both sides are smooth, and slightly curved. Pottery, or rock? The last pic are what I've gotten so far out of my "new" creek. -

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Both rocks Look like natural rock to me, but the whole point and broken piece are good signs there are goodies to be found....

 

[Rege-PA]

Top piece looks like a piece of shell tempered pottery that has been weathered or washed around in a stream, being slightly curved is indicative of a pot fragment. Keep looking there!

 

[naturegirl]

Thanks Treasure_hunter and Rege-Pa, I appreciate your opinions. The pottery-looking fragment is a new find for me, and kinda what I thought pottery in my area would look like. With our damp climate, I don't think i have a chance at anything bigger, I'm almost certain it isn't sandstone. Or modern brick.

Treasure_hunter, the stones with holes in it, I'm not sure about. I waited a month to bring it home, didn't want to let the water come up and take it away. I'm not convinced it's a "nutting-stone", but I'm not convinced it's natural either.

 

[Charmin]

That could be pottery, naturegirl, especially if it has tumbled around in the creek . The pottery I've found is darker in color.
The rest of the things you've found makes that gravel bar/creek look very promising! We just need a really good rain to turn everything over and wash away all those darn leaves .

 

[Twitch]

Definately pottery. No question in my mind.

 

[Neanderthal]

It's a pottery sherd. It's well-worn and the slip is entirely gone from it.

 

[naturegirl]

Thanks guys!

 

[Tnmountains]

Yep pottery. It looks like southern pottery with the red in it maybe a shell or limestone temper. The further north i go the pottery get a more greyish color. Good sign looks like you are in a good area. Now find that trash dump of ancient stuff washing into that creek.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Oh yeah, definitely a piece of Shell Tempered Pottery. I have a bunch of pieces that have that same orange coloring to them. Nice looking finds naturegirl.

The stones do all look natural though.

 

[naturegirl]

Hey TnM, I was scaling that big ol' washed out bank as good as I could yesterday, just found a snall piece of heat-treated chert and a small piece of bone, that I broke. I see nothing coming out of that bank, but I know my eyes are "untrained"

SVR- They look like natural stone, except when you are down on the creek looking around at all the jagged rocks, and even the tumbled smooth ones. They just don't have the characteristics that the two "hammer/mano" stones do. I'm open minded-I prefer to know the truth as opposed to telling people the rocks are something they aren't. They really look like the one from missouri posted in the photobucket link. So I don't know
lisa

 

[RGINN]

Being very familiar with Oklahoma pottery sherds I would say it is. It's been exposed to a lot of water erosion, and probably has washed down far from where it was originally left, so there may not be any others in the immediate area. Remember that Oklahoma was under the sea once and it is similar to some sedimentary deposits I've seen there. We hardly ever kept pottery sherds in Oklahoma. We did learn to hang onto the rim sherds, because you can ID the culture from them. We were out one day and a friend of mine found a piece with a full fingerprint preserved in the clay. I thought that was too cool.

 

[Tnmountains]

This is what that red pottery looks like before the water tumble. I thought I had one somewhere It still has smoke stains on it. Good luck NatureGirl!!
TnMtns

 

[steve71]

sure looks similar to the pieces i find

 

[naturegirl]

rginn-absolutly a fingerprint would be too cool! so would a complete pot Tn. I would be totally beside myself
It's the first piece for me, steve71, a first of many

As far as the stone with holes in it, I conceed. It's natural I think. The holes in it are really deep, maybe almost 1 1/2", narrow and rough, and I found similar holes in a fairly large rock. Here it is with my foot on it. the bigger hole is deeper than it looks in the pic.