Artifacts are these facts? And a fossil?

[compound digger]

Polychrome ceramics, polychrome scalloped ceramic, possible pieces of stone tool’s and some fossils! 410ft above sea level in Alabama.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Sorry, see no stone tools or Indian artifacts in pictures posted.

 

[Mud Hut]

Neat fossil chunk! That one brownish faceted stone kinda resembles an old musket flint.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Looks like pieces of a ceramic plate and some rocks. That is a nice fossil though.

 

[compound digger]

Sorry, see no stone tools or Indian artifacts in pictures posted.

What about now?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Might i suggest you buy a couple books on artifacts to study, your picking up random rocks. Artifacts will have signs of being worked, either by flaking, pecking or grinding.

 

[compound digger]

Might i suggest you buy a couple books on artifacts to study, your picking up random rocks. Artifacts will have signs of being worked, either by flaking, pecking or grinding.

Ok.

 

[compound digger]

Ok.

So are you telling me I don’t have a single artifact?

 

[robertk]

So are you telling me I don’t have a single artifact?

If you're using "artifact" to mean "a stone tool made by primitive man", then no. If you mean "artifact" in the sense of "an item used by an earlier inhabitant of a region or culture", then your pottery shards and iron relics could conceivably qualify. But all of the stones appear to be just plain rocks.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

So are you telling me I don’t have a single artifact?

If you are asking about Indian artifacts then no none there are Indian artifacts.

 

[compound digger]

If you're using "artifact" to mean "a stone tool made by primitive man", then no. If you mean "artifact" in the sense of "an item used by an earlier inhabitant of a region or culture", then your pottery shards and iron relics could conceivably qualify. But all of the stones appear to be just plain rocks.

Ok got ya thanks. Alabama has a rich history both Native American and colonial. So in 1540 when De’sotos and his men were attacked in Alabama it is said that they had lost most of what they had collected and their belongings. I think I’m closer to mabila than the rest! IMO of course

 

[robertk]

So in 1540 when De’sotos and his men were attacked in Alabama it is said that they had lost most of what they had collected and their belongings.

The pottery fragments and iron relics look to be from the mid to late 1800s to me. I could be wrong, of course, but they do very similar to relics I've found from the 1800s.

 

[compound digger]

The pottery fragments and iron relics look to be from the mid to late 1800s to me. I could be wrong, of course, but they do very similar to relics I've found from the 1800s.

I have heard that so it’s probably correct!

 

[Tnmountains]

Alabama is loaded with artifacts from coastal cherts to glass like horn stone. If it was me I would hit areas where artifacts have been found before. I hunted Alabama for years.

 

[compound digger]

Alabama is loaded with artifacts from coastal cherts to glass like horn stone. If it was me I would hit areas where artifacts have been found before. I hunted Alabama for years.

It’s all from private property I live on!