mollyk927
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I’ll try to be brief...back in the 1980s I lived and worked on a horse farm in central NJ. The horses liked to congregate in a particular corner of the pasture...after heavy rains it would become very muddy and they’d slosh around in it. Remarkably, the ground would become quite level again, once dry. It was then that I’d find on the surface (on different occasions years apart) odd stones, stones that bore no resemblance to others in the area. It finally occurred to me that they might be artifacts (and tried to convince my friends and family of this, unsuccessfully--no doubt they thought: there she goes again...). Nonetheless, I remained confident, and over the years amassed quite a collection. Fast forward a few years and I am married and living in Virginia (and yes, my rocks came too). We joined the local archaeology club, where, one evening, we were fortunate to have as guest speaker an authority on mid-Atlantic archaeology. In advance of his visit, we were told we may bring things in for him to identify. I thought: here is my chance to be vindicated! So, out of 15 or so artifacts, I chose the 2 that I thought were just too uncannily alike to be anything but artifacts. Finally, it’s my turn, and I’m beside myself with anticipation. I hand him the rocks and fully expect him to stand up and shout that I had discovered the archaeological find of the century...but, no. In retrospect, I admire his restraint--he did not roll his eyes or heave a heavy sigh as he said for the umpteenth time: these are just natural rocks. Went home dejected. But. It was not long before I convinced myself that they ARE tools, no matter what ANYone said. MY tools. So my tools sat on a shelf undisturbed for years, while I went about raising my children. Fast forward to now...not long ago, I set about trying to figure out what, exactly, is in my collection. Surprised and delighted to find (I think, anyway--this is where you guys come in) that some do indeed appear to be tools, archaic (?) tools. The first pics are of the 2 rocks I showed to that long-suffering, patient gentleman (of course I defer to his expertise, but I still just have...this, this feeling). The others (all of these were found in close proximity, even the 2 non-tools) all appear to me to be stone-ground/pecked tools of various sorts. I am fully prepared to have my hopes dashed once again (in the name of science!)--and promise to stop all this toolishness for once and for all. For a while, anyway 
What’s T-net’s verdict?
What’s T-net’s verdict?
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