Couple more nutting stones!

[choo]

I went creek hunting Wednesday & found a couple more nutting stones! The red one is really cool has multiple cups on both sides!

 

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[outlaws15]

Obviously I know nothing about Nutting stones. I'm guessing used to break open a nut or to grind?
Those indentations seem so small for the purpose of breaking open a nut to eat or transport to a bigger stone to grind. Why so many together? Just trying to understand.
Thanks

 

[Tdog]

I think those are omarolluks.

 

[Relicgrubber]

Terry is correct. Not Nutting Stones...

 

[choo]

I guess everyone has there opinion but I have to disagree with you I think there nutting stones I have found plenty through the years! If you look at nutting stones in a artifact book they look just like what I found!

 

[Relicgrubber]

These are nutting stones from a book. If you have a book with pictures of rocks like yours then the book is flawed imo.

 

[Tpmetal]

not nutting stones... and I don't even collect na artifacts. looks like mother natures work not mans.

 

[choo]

Like I said you have your opinion & that’s fine nutting stones can have multiple cups in the stone & if I’m wrong about them I will admit it! But I have seen them in artifact books!

 

[Tpmetal]

Like I said you have your opinion & that’s fine nutting stones can have multiple cups in the stone & if I’m wrong about them I will admit it! But I have seen them in artifact books!

just like on the internet, just because it was in a book does not make it true. There is no sign that these were worked, like the pecking from forming and impact marks from use(see examples provided by relic grubber). There are a few people on this site that have more experience and info that what is in some of those books....I suggest you at least listen to what they have to say and why they say it before you continue to dismiss them. Or else you could be losing out on valuable knowledge

 

[outlaws15]

The 4th picture shows a indentation inside of an indentation that looks natural

 

[Fossils]

There’s no reason for a Native American to carve out 10+ holes in the same rock when one or two would have sufficed, especially when some of the holes are literally overlapping and so small as to be nonfunctional. Clear indications that this was made by water erosion.

 

[choo]

TP metal I’m not dismissing anyone & like I said everyone has there opinion & that’s cool!

 

[Tpmetal]

ah nevermind

 

[Peridot613!]

I went creek hunting Wednesday & found a couple more nutting stones! The red one is really cool has multiple cups on both sides!

Wow they look a lot like the one I found partially buried - southern Ontario . Could it be a Nutting Stone?
School yard but probably on old farmstead. Comments welcomed.

 

[Tnmountains]

I have one that I dug out of a shelter with multiple cupulets on both sides. Grinding stones and also nutting stone are usually worked on both sides. I have a lot of them but each was dug in context with artifacts. I have seen mother nature make them as well. I know the ones I have with multiple dips was photographed by and archeologist as they are really kinda rare. It is thick and heavy. I can take a pic of it if you wish?
HH

 

[CaptEsteban]

Look up

omarolluk pictures

 

[dirstscratcher]

I don't believe those are natural. A theory put forth a number of years ago and published in the Ohio Archaeologist was that they were formed by grinding antler ends into billets for flint knapping. They experimentally created exact copies of them. I have one with several pits on one side. On the obverse were obvious pit bottoms with the higher surface removed by pecking for leveling.

 

[Peridot613!]

I have one that I dug out of a shelter with multiple cupulets on both sides. Grinding stones and also nutting stone are usually worked on both sides. I have a lot of them but each was dug in context with artifacts. I have seen mother nature make them as well. I know the ones I have with multiple dips was photographed by and archeologist as they are really kinda rare. It is thick and heavy. I can take a pic of it if you wish?
HH

Yes, please send a photo.

 

[Peridot613!]

My guess is that if you had a basket of nuts to crack it wouldn’t be efficient to crack one at a time. One thud with a heavy flat rock could break open 10 at a time.

 

[Tnmountains]

I will take some pics if the rain lets up here. I have seen small ones we called platforms. Used as a third hand for knapping or working another material. Single divot.