Help? The mysterious round rock

[Holly_squirrel]

I found this as a kid, I use to dig for" treasures". It very much feels like a stone , it's very smooth ... I dug it up when I was like 8 near my great grandparents' chicken coop. I've held onto it since .

 

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[Peyton Manning]

ok this I can comment on. I also found one of those. Mine is certainly a rock, perfectly round and smooth. I wondered if it was native made. perhaps for a game?

 

[Holly_squirrel]

I didnt know they had access to rock tumblers... Lol. My great grandparents had pigs... I thought maybe it was a pig kidney stone... Lol

 

[Peyton Manning]

wow, the places your mind goes......

 

[jeff of pa]

there apparently were such things as stone marbles

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/sheridanhollow/dailylife.html

 

[Peyton Manning]

mine is bigger than modern marbles, but could be. I only have one, wish I had a pair.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

mine is bigger than modern marbles, but could be. I only have one, wish I had a pair.

Hey now, we don't need to hear about your missing marble.

 

[Peyton Manning]

I have no reply to that

 

[Peyton Manning]

although I would appreciate your handling it carefully

 

[fireresq21]

looks like a gallbladder stone to me. About the right size and the coloring looks pretty classic.

 

[Peyton Manning]

wow firedude, your first post and Holly got it. my stone is a stone. too heavy for a gallstone

 

[Peyton Manning]

I suppose you are yet another Doctor roaming this site?

 

[Bryanhashemi]

Looks like stone marble as Jeff said. They made diff sizes for diff games. Bigger ones would be used to knock smaller ones out

 

[flyadive]

Cows would eat stones to aid in digestion. Looks like it came from a cow tumbler.

By the way .... How come you can't tell a secret on a farm?

 

[AU Seeker]

I thinking a stone marble as well.

Lot of 10 Vintage Bennington Hand Made Stone Marbles Lot 1 | eBay

 

[CoilyGirl]

They made marbles out of clay during The Civil War,is yours much heavier?

 

[Gold Maven]

come to my gravel pit, we've got thousands.

They end up under the stacker conveyors because they want to roll back down the belt.

Generally created by water, tumbling, glacier action, but it could be something that fell from an animals butt.

 

[bigfoot1]

that ball is a ball.one of a set.but thats what you get.for havin a ball

 

[Holly_squirrel]

come to my gravel pit, we've got thousands.

They end up under the stacker conveyors because they want to roll back down the belt.

Generally created by water, tumbling, glacier action, but it could be something that fell from an animals butt.

Well that's about par , my life seems to revolve around cleaning up animal poop.

 

[Holly_squirrel]

I thinking a stone marble as well.

Lot of 10 Vintage Bennington Hand Made Stone Marbles Lot 1 | eBay

I'd say that looks about right