coinman123
Silver Member
Sorry for the rock post, I know how much everyone hates them, but I couldn't help myself from asking about this one.
I was metal detecting at a heavily hunted out cellar hole today, and as I was leaving I noticed an interesting rock in a small collapsed stone wall near the cellar hole. I noticed the hole in the rock and examined it, and it looked crude and it wasn't perfectly round either. My first thought was that it was a Native American mortar stone, used for grinding acorns into flour, or maybe a Native American fire starter stone. I another saw one a a few weeks back at a different site, but the hole was even more crude and wasn't as deep. I was determined to bring the rock home though, it weighed at least 200 pounds, but I was able to roll it to my car, than lift it into the trunk. When I took it out to put it in my front yard for display, next some colonial stone hitching posts original to my house, the end of the rock (which was already cracked) broke. Luckily the area with the hole in it is completely fine. I'm hoping that it is a Native American stone that was found while plowing, and placed in that stone wall by someone in the 1700's or 1800's. The site was abandoned in the second half of the 1800's, so it is at least that old (probably not from a jack hammer, with the context of where it was found taken into account) The hole is around 4.5" inches deep (and had around 2" of dirt in it that I had to removed before I could measure it), about 1.5" wide, and seems pretty eroded. The stone itself is much wider than it is tall. What do you guys think it could be? My guess is that it is either Native American, or made in the 1700's/1800's for some purpose. What do you guys think it is? Thanks!
I put the broken piece of the rock where it used to be attached, for the photos.
Sorry for the bad photos, my good camera isn't working at the moment, so I had to use my cell phone (which has a cracked lens).
I was metal detecting at a heavily hunted out cellar hole today, and as I was leaving I noticed an interesting rock in a small collapsed stone wall near the cellar hole. I noticed the hole in the rock and examined it, and it looked crude and it wasn't perfectly round either. My first thought was that it was a Native American mortar stone, used for grinding acorns into flour, or maybe a Native American fire starter stone. I another saw one a a few weeks back at a different site, but the hole was even more crude and wasn't as deep. I was determined to bring the rock home though, it weighed at least 200 pounds, but I was able to roll it to my car, than lift it into the trunk. When I took it out to put it in my front yard for display, next some colonial stone hitching posts original to my house, the end of the rock (which was already cracked) broke. Luckily the area with the hole in it is completely fine. I'm hoping that it is a Native American stone that was found while plowing, and placed in that stone wall by someone in the 1700's or 1800's. The site was abandoned in the second half of the 1800's, so it is at least that old (probably not from a jack hammer, with the context of where it was found taken into account) The hole is around 4.5" inches deep (and had around 2" of dirt in it that I had to removed before I could measure it), about 1.5" wide, and seems pretty eroded. The stone itself is much wider than it is tall. What do you guys think it could be? My guess is that it is either Native American, or made in the 1700's/1800's for some purpose. What do you guys think it is? Thanks!
I put the broken piece of the rock where it used to be attached, for the photos.
Sorry for the bad photos, my good camera isn't working at the moment, so I had to use my cell phone (which has a cracked lens).
Last edited:
