Soapstone bowl fragments

[willjo]

Found a couple pieces of a Soapstone bowl, I have found them before but not this this and well made. As most of you all know these bowls started out as a big piece of soapstone and they carved them to shape. these two pieces are really smooth not showing any tool marks Last show was bad photo but has a scale for size reference.

[beatup1354]

Great finds johnny

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Johnny, Great finds Man. I have worked a little soapstone and I am amazed at how well they worked this soft rock.

[SurfaceHunter]

Those are nice I wonder what tools they used to make them with

[redrocks]

Nice willjo. Soapstone bowl frags are cool to find.....i got one piece i found last thamksgiving and its a nice rimsherd. With scrape marks..they musta used flint blades for shaping

[utilized flake]

I've always heard that the Savannah River complex used a lot of soapstone bowls, perhaps that's why I have found several rounded off SR knives. Not blunted per say, like a beveled scraper would be, just rounded from a resharpened blade.

[CMD]

Always enjoy finding steatite. Here's some bowl's being formed in the outcrop, at a site in RI. Then they would chisel under the piece and work out a blank which would then be scooped out. Here you're looking down on the underside of future bowls. We live near the quarries, and have a couple of complete blanks that were brought back to camp but not finished....

[2ndoldman]

It would be amazing to find a whole one or two Johnny. 😉 If you find enough broken pieces, will you try to piece them together?

[willjo]

I would but that would be unusual to find that many pieces, people have picked some of them up in past and others have been scattered to other places.

[Tam]

Now that’s a nice find Johnny very cool . What era do you think that’s from .

[willjo]

It was found in with Savannah river points so it could pre date clay pottery.

[Tam]

Very nice and good information .