Patty Rock

[Quicksilver]

Found below S.C. Keeowee (ONS)damn at a known village site. Only one of that material in the area. Weird huh?

[Mattern]

I wonder what that was used for?

[Uncle Trav]

What is a patty rock?

[Quicksilver]

It's a nice name, nic nack paddy wack, the stone is from a pegmatite somewhere up the Keeowee river, this metamorphic material can be found near Cashiers on the Whitewater river for example. Patty cake you never made any when you were little? Micaeous granite maybe?

[Quicksilver]

The patty rock or what is it?

[sailorjoe]

Yes, a strange stone for sure. Paddy stone, eh? As good a name as one I could imagine.

[Hoss]

Its just a sedimentary rock. The layers have broken down irregularly. Cool looking but not an artifact in my opinion.

[Quicksilver]

Not a lot of sedimentary rock in this area, it's from a pegmatite due to the crystal size in the matrix and if you go around Devil's Court House you will see this plate material. White water falls has a lot too, which is on this waterway. Just a strange rock found below Keeowee damn at a known Cherokee village site. No other material like this has been found in the area. The area was settled in the late 1600s so it could be from white settlers.rocks like this don't walk up hill from the river without help. It's just Patty Rock. Its fully metamorphic.