Artifact Maybe?? (Help ID)

[AugustMoose87]

Ok, so this one was an odd find... I was at my parents house helping get their Christmas decorations up. I was in the front yard, and looked down and found this in the river rocks... If it wasn't for the lines, I wouldn't have thought anything of it, but once I picked it up, it kinda of looked like it was some type of reddish-clay. My dad has some pottery (mostly from Florida), and he and I agreed it was too thick. So I'm hoping one of the experts out there can tell me what I have... Some ancient artifact that got smoothed out in the river, a rock with weird natural lines, or a rock someone cut groves in...

Sadly I don't have the set up to get some real good close up shots of it, but here is what I can get.

 

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[NCPeaches]

I think it's a thick pottery shard. I've found some that thick. Not all items made were thin or small, some pots were large and thick.

 

[bsit1361]

It's pottery. Cool find

 

[GatorBoy]

Not pottery.
It's a very old and weathered cobblestone

 

[rock]

Im thinking natural cobble also but the lines are interesting.

 

[GatorBoy]

I mean cobblestone used in building

 

[flyadive]

I'm thinking more on the line of a sinew stone...

 

[EasternShoreMetal]

I searched for Indian artifacts long before I began metal detecting.. I'm pretty sure that it's pottery, but maybe marked later. The cuts are too sharp to be as old as the shard. I have found plenty of thick pottery. As a rule the thicker it is, the closer it is to the bottom of the bowl or pot. But the marks add some interest. Nice find.

 

[Rege-PA]

Looks like a piece of shell tempered pottery, take a knife point and dig out one of the white flakes if it is shell that`s a good bet for pottery.

 

[GatorBoy]

Sheesh.. I have some I'll post later

 

[GatorBoy]

There's a good possibility it's tempered with shell but not by Native Americans.
If it helps you out do an internet search of native american pottery from your area see how different it is

 

[Charl]

I don't think it's native pottery. But, if it's tempered with shell, it's manufactured and not a stone, no? When
I hear cobblestone, I think of cobblestone streets, which are actual stones. Many American colonial towns still have cobblestone streets preserved. My question would be is this material a form of concrete?? It doesn't look like stone, more brick-like. I think it's more akin to a type of brick....

BTW, I can see why someone might say sinew stone, but it's not......

 

[redbeardrelics]

I am thinking it is a piece of tile/brick/flowerpot type of post colonial pottery as well. Not a natural stone or prehistoric pottery. JMO

 

[yakker]

If it were a striated construction brick or block, might it look like this?? Just thinking maybe- Yakker

https://readreidread.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ruh-mink-creek-zoria-117.jpg