Rock with some kind of marking

[johnger1]

Two rocks made of a soft stone or baked mud or something similiar.There's something forming a series of lines on one side of the rocks. There are a few lines on the other rock .The shapes reminded me of a stone artifact I had seen somewhere.

 

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[The Grim Reaper]

Just a vein in the stone. Natural occurrence.

 

[unclemac]

do you mean the 3 hash marks?

 

[johnger1]

Yes sir, I do. What is the source of the hash marks?

 

[catherine1]

The artifacts that the N/A utilized are very familiar. Sorry but thats not one of them. Arrowheads are your best bet.

 

[johnger1]

Thanks for the input, not much in the way of arrowheads around here . I try to work with what I have. I know the series of lines are natural, they're what first caught my eye. I thouht maybe someone in the past may have noticed them as well. The "hash marks" are what made me think man altered. I thought some kind of symbolic object.

 

[unclemac]

i see what you mean, I have found such stones before myself, it is hard to say if there is intent or not.

 

[johnger1]

I posted another thread with some rocks like that. Are the ones you found similiar?

 

[unclemac]

similar in that they are river worn smooth rocks, with no worked shape but with odd talley marks that seem scratched in for no reason.

 

[yakker]

Yup.. Them be water-smoothed. Veins of color due to band of different rock running through, long before the rocked was tumbled smooth(ish). That said, I do pick up cool rocks and addities- and keep them around in the yard somewhere until I either build them into a wall or put them on a shelf... Yak

 

[yakker]

I'd pay not attention to the hash marks or color striations, and would look more at where it's warn on one side more than the others-- like a rubbing stone- for grinding grain against a larger, flat stone. Maybe. Yak