unusual stone, gotta ask

[Older The Better]

Found this today. It was floating in the dirt with a few flakes. As you can see not a particularly rocky spot.



I find lots of flakes and a handful of tools in that hole. So it’s definitely AMONG native artifacts, early archaic by my best guess. It is unlike the flat tabular sandstone, weathered and heated limestone and occasional chert river gravel that also comes up occasionally.







It’s got 3 bands going all the way around. I don’t see layers like differential weathering. It almost looks plummet like but it’s suspect it probably natural. Still I’ve never seen anything like it so could it just maybe be something?

 

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[newnan man]

I vote natural. All of us would checked it out too.

 

[dognose]

I agree with newman man, natural.

Interesting lines. It looks like limestone to me.

 

[Older The Better]

Probably is natural but I’m having trouble coming up with how those lines would form... but same for a human use, not sure what purpose they would serve. Oh well woulda been great if someone recognized it as something but I guess it will go into the “Mother Nature does crazy things” category

 

[dognose]

I would theorize that as a sedimentary rock as the layers were put down that layer which now appears as a 'ring' or groove had some other mineral in the sedimentary makeup that has weathered out at a different rate over the thousands of years since it separated from the larger sedimentary layer and was encapsulated in the organic composition - dirt,clay and whatever.

 

[Tdog]

I would theorize that as a sedimentary rock as the layers were put down that layer which now appears as a 'ring' or groove had some other mineral in the sedimentary makeup that has weathered out at a different rate over the thousands of years since it separated from the larger sedimentary layer and was encapsulated in the organic composition - dirt,clay and whatever.

Yes, this.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Natural, agree with dognose, if you look at the rings closely there is no sign of it being caused by man

 

[Older The Better]

I had ruled that out because the rock seems totally uniform but I suppose it could be something less obvious like a change in chemical composition I guess. But regardless I agree it’s probably natural but given the location it was worth looking into. Thanks to all for looking

 

[Older The Better]

I think I’ve posted before but here are the tools from the same spot, still looking for a full one. But from the semi limited I’d, seems to be early archaic.