• Stone dish shard a
    Stone dish shard a
Stone dish shard a
Stone dish shard a
Stone dish shard a

Shard of a stone Dish

Madison Historical Society
circa 1000 BCE (Date manufactured/created)
Grayish Stone
A curved sandstone dish shard that is approximately two-thirds intact. The shard is at least three thousand years old and possibly predates the use of ceramic/clay pottery in Connecticut Native American societies. Whereas soapstone is much softer and easier to shape, this sandstone piece must have already resembled its current design when it was found by the Natives, who then chipped it with smaller stones to create a more ideal shape. This dish shard may have been used as a cooking surface, with the stone being heated by direct contact with fire.

Donated by Professor George Woodbine
OL 8, OW 6.
80.240.12