An artifact?

[joemyakka]

Several years ago, I found this button-like object about 100 yards inland from the beach at Venice, Florida.? It is not metallic, very hard (I couldn't scratch the raised ridge on the bottom with a knife blade), about as hard a a porcelin plate that I once used for scratch-tests in my college mineralogy class.? I appears to have been soft at one time because on the bottom it appears that something was pressed into it.
Do you think that this is an indian artifact or something more modern?? Thanks for your input.

Joe Saladino
Sarasota, Florida

 

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[JARMAN]

Joe, can't help with the ID but it does look very old.Good luck on your search.HH

 

[downindixie]

It looks like a petfried turtle egg that was about to hatch.

 

[mavrick03]

looks like a crude hand made button
possibly out of bone
or deer antler


Mav

 

[omnicognic]

yeah a hand-made pottery or ceramic button cool! 8)

 

[Colorado2]

Hey Joe. I used to see these all the time back in the seventies. They were incorporated in the macrame hangers we all had back in those days. Usually handmade to save on overhead by the hippies that did the weaving. HH~CO2

 

[stoney56]

Yep, either a macrame button or a bong filter

 

[Idclare]

It dues look old. But its not Indian. They used a kind of peg that was tied in the middle.

 

[jglunt]

Color and texture looks like stoneware, a type of hardened clay pottery used particularly to make jugs and other vessels. Jim