Granite game ball

[oryancochran]

Granite game ball. PF Jay Co. Indiana

 

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[unclemac]

Granite will take that shape naturally...how is yours altered by man?

 

[oryancochran]

Hammered and pecked all around, same site everything else I've posted from, only ball like such I've found. Can post pictures of 50 ton of field rock I brought home this year.

 

[oryancochran]

Heres a dimpled one, same surface alteration in dimple as in surface of the game ball.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

They look like Pecking Stones to me and not Game Stones.

This entire shelf is Peck Stones and Hammer Stones and some are perfectly round just like yours.

 

[crj1968]

Sorry for my ignorance, but what's a pecking stones purpose?

 

[quito]

Sorry for my ignorance, but what's a pecking stones purpose?

Reducing and shaping other rocks.

 

[RockinIdaho]

I thought granite would chip easily. How would it be a pecking stone? Aren't hardstones used for pecking?

 

[Charl]

I thought granite would chip easily. How would it be a pecking stone? Aren't hardstones used for pecking?

I don't know if it's granite, but granite is a hardstone. Something like sandstone, for instance, would be a softstone.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I thought granite would chip easily. How would it be a pecking stone? Aren't hardstones used for pecking?

Quite a few of the ones on the shelf I posted are made from Quartz and are very hard dense stones. The others are all Granite. As stated above, Peck Stones were used to manufacture Celts, Axes, Pestles and other Stone Tools.

 

[crj1968]

Reducing and shaping other rocks.

So like mini-hammerstone. Thx