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<< Text Pages >> Ochee Spring Quarry - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in United States in New England

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Multi-periodSite Name: Ochee Spring Quarry
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 8.445 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: New England Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Johnston
Latitude: 41.819590N  Longitude: 71.47178W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ochee Spring Quarry is an historic quarry in Johnston, Rhode Island. Located on a privately owned outcrop of land behind 787 Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6), the quarry was a source of steatite (soapstone), a relatively soft stone easily workable into containers. Native Americans are known to have used this quarry.

A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of sizes. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England (*).

The quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Source: Wikipedia

(*) Conference of New England Archaeology Newsletter, December 1985" (PDF). https://cnea-web.org/docs/CNEA1985V5n2.pdf
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Ochee Spring Quarry submitted by dodomad : Native Americans carved stone bowls from the soapstone bedrock in this area to use for cooking and storing food. The quarry itself is an archaeological feature that has helped archaeologists learn how the Indigenous people made their soapstone bowls in the past. Native American artists today also study archaeological objects and features such as the quarry to learn more about the techniques their... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Studying Techniques: Soapstone Bowls in Rhode Island by Andy B on Monday, 02 January 2023
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Native Americans carved stone bowls from the soapstone bedrock in this area to use for cooking and storing food. The quarry itself is an archaeological feature that has helped archaeologists learn how the Indigenous people made their soapstone bowls in the past. Native American artists today also study archaeological objects and features such as the quarry to learn more about the techniques their ancestors employed. Tool marks in the stone provide clues into what tools were used to accomplish this task and what materials the tools were made of.

More at
http://library.providence.edu/encompass/before-rhode-island-early-peoples-and-archaeology/primary-sources/soapstone-quarry/
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