Here’s an old photo in stereo, but what does it show? Can you tell anything else about it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Shells and something else,” showed a curious dark brown object in the middle of 
some shells on a beach.
We got a lot of great guesses on what it was — an egg case from a skate fish or a piece of basalt rock with fossilized imprints. In reality, it was a piece of eroding Native American pottery near a shell ring at Botany Bay on Edisto Island. (You might have gotten the answer right had you read our sister publication, Charleston Currents, earlier in the week in a photo essay by English Purcell!).
But Jerry Morris of Barnwell didn’t need the tip. He immediately identified the object as a shard of Native American pottery, likely from the early Woodland period. Why? “This design, made by using a reed or similar object was one of the first types of pottery made around 4,000 years ago,” he told us. Outstanding. Thanks, Jerry!
Others who identified the shard — some with a little help from Charleston Currents — were David Lupo of Mount Pleasant, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., Marian Greely of Charleston; Jay Altman of Columbia; and Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay.
Lesson of the day: Read Charleston Currents, too! It comes out every Monday morning.
Send us a mystery. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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