Since clay is totally natural, other then being out of place with the loose rock. not really that strange an occurance. If you've ever been around a construction site during Excavation, when they reach the clay under the top soil, very strange shapes can be seen when the excavator scrapes a few ton of topsoil off the clay level.
If you page down to the second image in that article, the image called "Lamoose" you see an example of ignorance on the part of the people telling us about these finds.
This is clay, a reject I would say, a failed pot. It's thickness along the left edge (top) is consistent with either coiling or throwing, but due to the variations and split marks I would say it was coiled. There are the scrape marks on the inside. It's been wrapped around prior to firing but come open during the process. "High silica" means glassy - the wall of it is porous so must have had inclusions intended to make it hold together in heat eg if it was intended to be used for cooking and on the "inside" flat (visible) surface there's a layer of lighter glassy stuff (glaze) that appears to have been thrown in from the top and swilled around the inside.
edit sorry I meant slab built or coiled, it wasn't thrown, not in one piece anyway
-- Edited by Sapa on Monday 10th of August 2015 09:56:54 PM
-- Edited by Sapa on Monday 10th of August 2015 09:58:27 PM
-- Edited by Sapa on Monday 10th of August 2015 10:03:25 PM
Multiple areas of the same objects cut and pasted for a background. This is no mistake it is intentional as some of the other background areas are different.
-- Edited by Macten on Thursday 30th of July 2015 10:25:50 PM