SweepNbeep
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- Mar 3, 2017
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While exploring along the banks of the Missouri River in the Dakota's, my son discovered this rock. It's not perfectly flat, but it does measure almost exactly 2 1/8" x 2 1/8." As you can see, it's got four 90 degree, albeit rounded corners, making almost a perfect square. It averages 1/4" in thickness, and seems to be of a soft stone like sandstone, or limestone.
It doesn't seem to be worked, and if it is man made, I have no idea what it is. But this area of the Missouri is loaded with American Indian history and artifacts, so perhaps it's something? It just seems like the odds of this thing forming like that on it's own are so astronomical, that it's hard to believe it's natural.
The pictures don't do it justice, I took them in a hurry, and the light was from an angle, making the whole thing look less square that it actually is. In the hand it truly is almost perfectly square. What say you experts? My guess is it's a geofact, because most artifacts are painfully obvious, but this one's got me doing a double take. Thanks.
It doesn't seem to be worked, and if it is man made, I have no idea what it is. But this area of the Missouri is loaded with American Indian history and artifacts, so perhaps it's something? It just seems like the odds of this thing forming like that on it's own are so astronomical, that it's hard to believe it's natural.
The pictures don't do it justice, I took them in a hurry, and the light was from an angle, making the whole thing look less square that it actually is. In the hand it truly is almost perfectly square. What say you experts? My guess is it's a geofact, because most artifacts are painfully obvious, but this one's got me doing a double take. Thanks.
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