Construction guys: weird find in my soil, strange bricks - With Pics!

[Rage187]

Chimney liner brick.

 

[T9D]

Wow those don't look like the space bricks I was expecting

 

[highland145]

2nd looks like an old hand made one that's deteriorated.

The last I've seen but don't remember where.

Chimney liner brick.

I was thinking that but haven't found them on google yet.

 

[T9D]

 

[Markbnj]

I'm not a brick expert, though I have some friends who are. I often turn to them when I find bricks in old sites I'm exploring. For my money the brick on the left was probably hand-formed in a mold. You can tell this by the striations on the surface, which were caused when a board was dragged across the top of the mold to remove excess clay and flatten the tops. Nineteenth century, I would guess, and probably first half but it's very hard to tell without seeing it up close. The one next to it is unlike any I have seen, and might just be an amateur job. The other two appear modern.

 

[Homerboy]

2nd one looks like an old meatloaf.

 

[JEDI]

Best thread update in history of ATOT.

everyone is so relieved to see... a Brick?

 

[highland145]

2nd one looks like an old meatloaf.

something something...wife's cooking...something

everyone is so relieved to see... a Brick?

Well, yeah, otherwise we'd be expected to shat them.

 

[Muse]

The OP brick:

The really peculiar brick:

 

[mcurphy]

Thanks for the pics! I really know nothing about bricks, but I still found it interesting to see the pic.

I do, however, know a little about meatloaf...and I think Homerboy is on to something here. It very well may be an old petrified meatloaf. And not just any meatloaf, but the kind that is stuffed with cheese, because you can clearly see where some of the cheese was oozing out the side in that second pic you posted.

 

[master_shake_]

 

[Elixer]

So, there was a brick oven there in the past...

 

[WilliamM2]

I thought there were two alike? They all look pretty ordinary to me, and not property markers like I guessed earlier.

 

[Muse]

I thought there were two alike? They all look pretty ordinary to me, and not property markers like I guessed earlier.

Don't know, not ordinary to me, but...

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

 

[Hugo Drax]

There has to be someone with a college degree in Bricks capable of answering this question.

 

[lxskllr]

I like the "peculiar" brick. I have a few old bricks I've collected from house sites and stuff. I got one that was smoothed my the ocean, and I engraved my daughter's name in it so she could use it as a doorstop. I wanted to engrave flowers and vines also, but never got to it.

 

[sandorski]

Yup, those are bricks. I am no Rocket Brick Scientist, but would think those are from a fireplace or similar thing. Another possibility might be that your house was built on an old Industrial site and those are from a smokestack or some kind of Industrial oven.

 

[Humpy]

OP, what you found is an ordinary smooth Roman face brick in a medium range ironspot color.

They were most famously used in the US by Frank Loyd Wright in his designs.

They are still available today if you visit your friendly local brickyard. Bring lots of money though. Longer bricks are more difficult to produce without curling or twisting during firing, there is more waste, hence a higher price. Plus, they require more skill to lay up.

 

[MongGrel]

OP, what you found is an ordinary smooth Roman face brick in a medium range ironspot color.

They were most famously used in the US by Frank Loyd Wright in his designs.

They are still available today if you visit your friendly local brickyard. Bring lots of money though. Longer bricks are more difficult to produce without curling or twisting during firing, there is more waste, hence a higher price. Plus, they require more skill to lay up.

"Brick check on Isle 9"

Votes for Humpy as resident ATOT Brick Rocket Scientist if true.

:biggrin:

 

[Ns1]

Modern Roman brick in Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank.

eh looks good to me.

 

[mcurphy]

"Brick check on Isle 9"

Votes for Humpy as resident ATOT Brick Rocket Scientist if true.

:biggrin:

Welp, I'm impressed! He has my vote!

 

[Muse]

OP, what you found is an ordinary smooth Roman face brick in a medium range ironspot color.

They were most famously used in the US by Frank Loyd Wright in his designs.

They are still available today if you visit your friendly local brickyard. Bring lots of money though. Longer bricks are more difficult to produce without curling or twisting during firing, there is more waste, hence a higher price. Plus, they require more skill to lay up.

The geometry of this one is so perfect I feel like I'm in "2001."

 

[Muse]

There has to be someone with a college degree in Bricks capable of answering this question.

Well, I'll volunteer William Blake's saying:

'Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion'

 

[Scarpozzi]

What difference does it make? When was your house built? It's typical for lots to be backfilled with fill dirt and there can be all kinds of brick, concrete, asphalt, etc in that stuff.

 

[DaTT]

2nd one looks like an old meatloaf.

This made me lol....mostly because I find the word "meatloaf" slightly humorous.