🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Here is another odd rock. What is the rock and what was it used for?

[oldbattleaxe]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the f

ingers well. What is it??

 

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[oldbattleaxe]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the fView attachment 2140815ingers well. What is it??

 

[oldbattleaxe]

at the widest it is approx. Five inches. It weighs 4.5 pounds

 

[humblecat]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the fView attachment 2140815ingers well. What is it??

I think it’s called a banner stone.

Edit: I’m wrong. 😵‍💫😢

 

[newnan man]

It's a rock that may have been used as an expedient tool as a hammer stone. Maybe, or just a chipped rock. It could have been chipped by modern machines striking it. Also you didn't show both sides. It definitely is not a bannerstone.

 

[humblecat]

It's a rock that may have been used as an expedient tool as a hammer stone. Maybe, or just a chipped rock. It could have been chipped by modern machines striking it. Also you didn't show both sides. It definitely is not a bannerstone.

It's a rock that may have been used as an expedient tool as a hammer stone. Maybe, or just a chipped rock. It could have been chipped by modern machines striking it. Also you didn't show both sides. It definitely is not a bannerstone.

Oh I see. Bannerstone the hole goes all the way through. I’m still learning lol.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

100% positive not a banner stone at all.

The hole divit isnt smooth at all so not a fire starter, would like to say nutting stone but if so it wasn't used long as it shows very little use at hole, but only one picture.

Please, when posting questions on if something is artifact, always do multiple pictures of all sides and something for size reference like a coin or something that is known size. Want to see other side.


Banner Stones

Smarthistory – Bannerstones, North America

Between 6000 and 1000 B.C.E., thousands of nomadic Native Americans travelled and lived along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, making enigmatic, carefully carved stones.

smarthistory.org

 

[oldbattleaxe]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the fView attachment 2140815ingers well. What is it??

 

[oldbattleaxe]

 

[oldbattleaxe]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the fView attachment 2140815ingers well. What is it??

 

[ToddsPoint]

This is what your rock is. A greywacke omar.

 

[moemoney]

Any ideas forum experts? Obviously it is a dull black. I hit it on a vise and it had a tan color where I had chipped it. Like a shell or crust. There is a deep dish shaped area on both sides. They fit the fView attachment 2140815ingers well. What is it??

Maybe a FDR that's been in a fire? ( Funny Da*n Rock )

 

[Mdpartner]

Dad called them Indian worry rocks where you could rub your thumb inside the depression and relieve stress.

 

[oldbattleaxe]

It looks like it was grooved with a knife or another rock. the hole is rough and not done with a finger. Just wondering since i had it in my landscaping for years and people are asking me what it was for.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Obviously it is a Xavier Sicilystone bocce ball.