Rock found on a roman road today

[Organicseekers]

Was doing some fence repair today next to an ancient road on my property and pulled this rock out. The road intersects a recognized roman road about 400 yds further up and I have found some decent artifacts here in the past so I believe it was a Roman road as well. The road runs along the side of a river that was known for transporting lots of goodies down it and connects 2 bridges that cross the river.



Onto the rock itself, was along the side camber well packed in as the Romans did but I noticed the diagonal across it first.
The diagonal marking is rounded, as though its been chiseled with a curved tool but there are some interesting marks on the bottom of the rock as well.







Might be just a rock, but sure looks interesting.

 

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[richeysd76]

I don't know about the rock but that's a beautiful place you have.

 

[Philvis]

I'd be willing to bet it is a chiseled feature on that stone, especially due to it's proximity to a Roman road. If you havent done so already, definitely pull up your property on Google Earth. You may see features indicative of Roman structures or even a road.

 

[Organicseekers]

I don't know about the rock but that's a beautiful place you have.

Thanks, if you zoom the first picture there is standing stone that I already pulled up and "planted" next to our resident swan who lives here.

 

[Organicseekers]

I'd be willing to bet it is a chiseled feature on that stone, especially due to it's proximity to a Roman road. If you havent done so already, definitely pull up your property on Google Earth. You may see features indicative of Roman structures or even a road.

Yes, done so many times. We have not found any Roman structures on this side of the river. However, we have found an old Norman structure on our neighbours property which the historians believe to have been a lookout on the river but they are not sure why as the Romans took everything from here and left no gold or tin in the mines so its curious as to why the Normans wanted to protect the river.

 

[smokeythecat]

On the right side, since the lines stand up/out from the rock, my thought it they are fossil remnants, probably from some kind of worm.

 

[huntsman53]

I am almost sure that the stone was chiseled and had some significance to someone, Roman or Norman. It could be landmark, or indicate a direction to go to somewhere or a marker for something hidden. Since you all think that the Normans had a lookout structure and believe they were watching the river, then it is quite possible they sunk some treasure in the river or buried it along the river within site of the lookout structure.

 

[Organicseekers]

On the right side, since the lines stand up/out from the rock, my thought it they are fossil remnants, probably from some kind of worm.

The lines are actually indented and not raised. I will take some more pics tomorrow. I have the rock on my workbench cleaning up the back as its all muddy.
A couple of people said if you zoom the picture up it looks like pictographs but I think thats just a bit of artistic license on their part

 

[A2coins]

That ancient road is freakin cool looking