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[Older The Better]

I know how the “identify my rock” usually winds up but I gotta ask about this one

I was detecting the base of some bluffs when I saw this rock sticking out of the side, it was unlike any rock around it so I picked it up and carried it out of the woods. After cleaning it up the stone sure looks like a groundstone artifact but it’s huge it can’t possibly be a tool, i don’t think it’s a grinding stone because there’s not a cupped side. It may be just a rock but there’s just something about it

Here’s some pictures of the area and the rocks I find there, notice they are all angular or if limestone it’s heavily pitted and very coarse

 

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[Discrimination Dave]

It’s most definitely a mano in my opinion.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It looks worked to me.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

First off, I want to thank you for posting pics of exactly what type of environment you found your stone in.

Secondly, I'd just love to see the look on your wife's face when you bring yet another 'pet rock' into the house.

For more exposure, you might consider re-posting your pics here...GEOLOGICAL > ROCKS/GEMS
Dave

 

[Hawks88]

Interesting rock. I have no clue. Sorry.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Thanks for coming in with an open mind. The reason these threads get sideways is the OP refuses to listen to reason.

Nice find.

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice find and congrats! Without knowing the dimensions, I'm thinking a stone for scraping and stretching small animal hides. My granddad had one that was grave goods from a Smithsonian dig in the early 50s. His had the same shape and was about 18" x 10" x 2" and was very heavy. In my memory his was limestone as well.

 

[IDXMonster]

Almost looks like a primitive or halfway done headstone...

 

[Older The Better]

First off, I want to thank you for posting pics of exactly what type of environment you found your stone in.

Secondly, I'd just love to see the look on your wife's face when you bring yet another 'pet rock' into the house.

For more exposure, you might consider re-posting your pics here...GEOLOGICAL > ROCKS/GEMS
Dave

When I was in college and moving every year, people would help me but it was understood that I was going to move my many buckets of rocks and metal.

As far as my newest addition I forgot to mention I do believe it’s limestone, there is a mudstone that I’ve found around the property that does form in smooth rounded shapes I don’t find it on the bluffs and I didn’t find any similar rocks when I looked around the immediate area.

Right or wrong good to know some other people think it looks worked

 

[smokeythecat]

I can't tell...

 

[Ripcon]

Looks like it was used as an "anvil stone" or a working surface that's been smoothed down from use. Nice! Congrats.

 

[Older The Better]

Nice find and congrats! Without knowing the dimensions, I'm thinking a stone for scraping and stretching small animal hides. My granddad had one that was grave goods from a Smithsonian dig in the early 50s. His had the same shape and was about 18" x 10" x 2" and was very heavy. In my memory his was limestone as well.

That’s a very interesting idea, I’ve never heard of natives using a stone in hide processing but I can definitely believe it, I’m not home at the moment but I would say the dimensions are very similar and it was heavy

It does resemble a headstone but if it is, it has traveled a long way for a rock the top of the bluff is mixed exposed limestone and a thin skin of dirt you would have to go back 20 feet to bury anything/one... I guess someone that had a problem with native Americans back in the 1800’s could have picked it up and tossed it over the edge

 

[Reanm8er]

It resembles commercially manufactured board used for stretching small hides. The surface is exceptionally smooth from centuries of hides being worked on it.

 

[Older The Better]

Sounds Like A Consensus, A Hide Working Stone It Is.
Ive identified a site maybe 70 yards to the west, ill have to look more closely above the stone to see if it extends over to the east.
thanks guys.

 

[Discrimination Dave]

 

[Discrimination Dave]

 

[Discrimination Dave]

 

[Discrimination Dave]

Mano です

 

[Older The Better]

Unless I’m missing something or maybe my pictures aren’t clear a Mano would have a cupped or concave face this is more flat to convex but aside from geometry yes same thing a processing stone shaped by repeated use by humans, I can see it giving a great surface to scrape a hide but corn kernels would want to roll off

 

[Discrimination Dave]

Unless I’m missing something or maybe my pictures aren’t clear a Mano would have a cupped or concave face this is more flat to convex but aside from geometry yes same thing a processing stone shaped by repeated use by humans, I can see it giving a great surface to scrape a hide but corn kernels would want to roll off

here ya go O.B.!