Mortar and pestle…pretty amazing

[GOHUNT]

I'll start this by saying it's hearsay, but I believe it. A friend of mine been telling me about an archeological site he owns. Said the old woman who's family owned the land before his wife's family bought it gave her family this pestle and said it goes with the "hole in the rock". Turns out, they have a huge mortar in a limestone vein along the creek. The site is about 500 yards from the Nolichuckey river. Anyway, today we got together to put the parts back together. When I first saw the pestle I said, dang with that flat bottom must be a big hole…and it was. Pretty amazing to me. There is a pic of me holding the pestle in the mortar like the Indians did many thousands of years ago.
I've now got permission to go look around, along the creek and in the pasture, for artifacts.

 

[cbhunter]

Good luck in your searches! I would be giddy

 

[Wobblyshot1]

Amazing. Love this kind of stuff.

 

[tn24]

The farm I hunt has a couple of rocks that look like that.

 

[RUGER]

Wow !

 

[Blackbeard]

This looks awesome! The stories that pestle could tell!
Wonder if they talked gossip like we do back then.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Now that right there is pretty cool! I've found a couple of pestles but never a mortar.

 

[UT-longbeard]

Amazing.

 

[Wiley]

Quite amazing! I know of a similar site near a bluff in Marshall County Alabama. My best friend and I found it when we were about 10 years old. There are 2 just a few feet apart. The pestles were still in the mortars back then. As kids growing up in this very rural area we had been pumped so full of old Indian burial ground tales, etc that we were afraid to tell anybody and didn't dare take the pestles. I remember almost exactly where they are and hope they're still as I last saw them. Real thick moss grows within a few feet of them and I hope it overgrew the whole area.

 

[utvolsfan77]

I'll start this by saying it's hearsay, but I believe it. A friend of mine been telling me about an archeological site he owns. Said the old woman who's family owned the land before his wife's family bought it gave her family this pestle and said it goes with the "hole in the rock". Turns out, they have a huge mortar in a limestone vein along the creek. The site is about 500 yards from the Nolichuckey river. Anyway, today we got together to put the parts back together. When I first saw the pestle I said, dang with that flat bottom must be a big hole…and it was. Pretty amazing to me. There is a pic of me holding the pestle in the mortar like the Indians did many thousands of years ago.
I've now got permission to go look around, along the creek and in the pasture, for artifacts.

Tim, my and Jackie's dad used to have a lot of artifacts, but they kind of disappeared shortly after he died. We suspect that some of those items came from that area up on the left side of 107, on the edge of the Nolichucky in Washington County, right near where the bear preserve started immediately before you get to the Clark's Creek area. The state began protecting that area in the late 1970s, after Jackie and I graduated from SGHS, and after several burial sites were found in the general area. I'll bet you and Scott both know exactly where I'm talking about.

 

[GOHUNT]

Tim, my and Jackie's dad used to have a lot of artifacts, but they kind of disappeared shortly after he died. We suspect that some of those items came from that area up on the left side of 107, on the edge of the Nolichucky in Washington County, right near where the bear preserve started immediately before you get to the Clark's Creek area. The state began protecting that area in the late 1970s, after Jackie and I graduated from SGHS, and after several burial sites were found in the general area. I'll bet you and Scott both know exactly where I'm talking about.

Oh yeah, know the area very well.