Found some pottery shards

[Milkman]

I found all this on a sandbar in a creek. The two largest black pieces have designs on one side and are smooth on the other. They both have curvature.

The thicker small black piece has curvature as well. It’s rough on one side.

The granite piece maybe was a tool of some sort.

Anyone know what I found?

 

[walkinboss01]

Nice looking pottery. Congrats

 

[crackerdave]

Whatever it is,it looks very old.

 

[Redbow]

Nice finds. I used to be a member of a hunting club down in SC that bordered up to the Great Pee Dee River. I have never seen so much broken pottery as we found on that club over the years we hunted there. You could pick up a bucket full at times when the International Paper Company cleared a site for planting pine trees. Mixed in were some pretty arrowheads at times. Then one summer the paper company sold that land to a group of lawyers and they would not let us keep the hunting lease on the property.

 

[Milkman]

Any thoughts on what that granite piece may have been?

 

[trad bow]

I would need to put a hand on it to see. Your land down by me?

 

[Milkman]

I would need to put a hand on it to see. Your land down by me?

Yes

 

[diamondback]

When I was a teenager we were at lake eufaula and went up on a gravel bar and picked up I bet a 5 gallon bucket of pottery. Only a couple broken points to. Then about 30 years ago went back and walked another bar and it was the same. So much that we only kept it if it had designs on it.

 

[Willjo]

The first piece looks like a piece of Swift Creek Complicated stamp pottery, nice find

 

[Milkman]

The first piece looks like a piece of Swift Creek Complicated stamp pottery, nice find

Thanks. This was my first archeological find ever

 

[Milkman]

The first piece looks like a piece of Swift Creek Complicated stamp pottery, nice find

These two pieces were found about 50 yards apart. Does anyone think they are from the same vessel?

 

[trad bow]

Doesn’t look like it to me. But I’m no expert.

 

[Willjo]

These two pieces were found about 50 yards apart. Does anyone think they are from the same vessel?

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[Willjo]

no

 

[Milkman]

Doesn’t look like it to me. But I’m no expert.

no

Thanks
I thought they might be different. I’m gonna be looking at that section of creek more closely.

 

[trad bow]

Don’t blame you.

 

[Nicodemus]

Looks like you have an established village site there. I`d be doing some serious looking in the area. There should be points and tools there too.

 

[Milkman]

Looks like you have an established village site there. I`d be doing some serious looking in the area. There should be points and tools there too.

There is a 1-2 acre spot of exposed granite about 100 yards uphill from where I found these.
Would they have used that open granite as a village or ceremonial site?

 

[Nicodemus]

There is a 1-2 acre spot of exposed granite about 100 yards uphill from where I found these.
Would they have used that open granite as a village or ceremonial site?

I don`t know. It might or might not have been exposed 2 to 3,000 years ago. I`ve always had good luck on high spots next to a good water source.

 

[trad bow]

I looked at the outcrop of granite as we passed by it. I’m sure if you looked hard at it you probably will find depressions they used to grind acorns and maize.