Natural Rock or Indian Artifact

[midus1]

Love this site. I have been learning a lot about Indian artifacts on here. I've found a few arrowheads along the Ohio river in northern Ky but my question today is for a friend.
My friends son found this and was wondering if it's natural rock or Indian artifact? Hope the picture shows.

Thanks

 

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[Rege-PA]

A larger picture would show more detail but it looks to be a natural hole where maybe a piece of wood or some softer mineral weathered out leaving the opening. The rock appears to be a fine grained sand stone or silt stone and inclusions are common. However if there are circular scratches in the opening and the hole tapers all the way through or is narrowest in the middle it may have been drilled. Closer examination would tell. Any artifact hunter would pick that piece up.

 

[beetle662]

Hey Midus, thanks for posting this. I am the friend that found this rock / artifact. Here is a bigger pic. Thanks!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Does the hole go all the way through the stone. It doesn't appear to from your pictures, but either way I still believe it's a natural stone, and like Rege said, a softer material has eroded out leaving the hole. I too would have picked it up and brought it home for the rock garden just because they are cool looking.

 

[beetle662]

No, it doesn't go all the way through. It's probably about 75% through.

 

[leefields]

is that hollow inside....looks like the hole edges have been worked....looks like been worked from the outside considering they are pointed inwards and downangle...

but i really know nothing about this stuff...i really dont...but it does look interesting...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Looks natural to me, I found a lot like that when I lived in Missouri............

 

[jeff a]

looks like a geode , are there any crystals inside

 

[beetle662]

No, it's not hollow inside... the hole goes pretty much straight down, but does angle of to one side just a bit.
And I do not see any crystals inside.

 

[midus1]

Thanks for the comments Guys!

 

[beetle662]

Thanks for the input everyone! I am very new to this so all I'm taking it all in. I do have a question though. Can someone explain to me why no one mentioned the possibility of this being a fire starter? Is it too small? Not the right kind of rock? Just curious and want to educate myself!!! Thanks again!

 

[SoIll]

A capstone (firestarter) would have a high polish where the stick rubbed. Good luck hunting.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

A capstone (firestarter) would have a high polish where the stick rubbed. Good luck hunting.

Ditto.......There are billions of rocks made by mother nature that somones imagination could turn into an artifact if they try......

 

[Cassie8907]

Artifacts or nothing?

R these anything?

 

[Older The Better]

I?d add that hole is a bit irregular, I would expect a drilled hole to be round. As far as the new pics the one in the middle looks to be a flake and maybe a clearer picture would reveal some edge work but most of those look natural, it?s convenient to do a group photo but it does make it much harder for members to help because you lose a lot of detail and it?s difficult to talk about a specific piece.

 

[Garscale]

Cassie, I suspect some of those are debitage so by definition artifacts. Closer pics would help. Both sides of the long core looking item too please.

 

[Older The Better]

Oops didn?t notice the thread got hijacked I guess the original poster has long moved on from their question

 

[kentucky Quinn]

Oops didn?t notice the thread got hijacked I guess the original poster has long moved on from their question

Right. Didn?t realize this post was originally from 2010...haha. Good eye Older...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

R these anything?

Sorry, they are all natural... Welcome to TreasureNet.