Nutting stone, Bow drill or Geofact? ID Help!

[TheRockCollector]

I found this in southern Ontario in a ravine. 2 inches long, 1 inch and a half wide and 3 quarters of an inch thick.

Thanks

 

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[Felinepeachy]

Re: Nutting stone, Bow drill or Geofact?

I don't think it's a geofact. Lets see what the experts say

 

[naturegirl]

Bump!!!! I'm not sure Rock Collector, because it's so small, I think it may be natural, though the dimple looks like pictures of nutting stones. There are alot of natural conditions that cause this sort of formation. Are nutting stones found in your area? Hopefully someone from near your part of the world will speak up

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Really hard to tell, picture is so small, and poor quality (no offense) that you can't blow it up to look inside the hole... From what you can see, personally I lean towards a geofact..... I found a lot of them in Missouri like that and 99.9% were geofacts.... The ones that were real showed signs in the hole of being worked or used by man.....Just my opinion...

 

[TheRockCollector]

Really hard to tell, picture is so small, and poor quality (no offense) that you can't blow it up to look inside the hole... From what you can see, personally I lean towards a geofact..... I found a lot of them in Missouri like that and 99.9% were geofacts.... The ones that were real showed signs in the hole of being worked or used by man.....Just my opinion...

This is a as zoomed in as I could get.
http://m1194.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/TheRockCollector/photo.jpg.html?o=0

 

[TheRockCollector]

Bump!!!! I'm not sure Rock Collector, because it's so small, I think it may be natural, though the dimple looks like pictures of nutting stones. There are alot of natural conditions that cause this sort of formation. Are nutting stones found in your area? Hopefully someone from near your part of the world will speak up

The area Were I found it, was an aboriginal area.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

If the indentation had been used as a Bow Drill Capstone it would be worn very smooth and highly polished inside the hole and I don't see that in your pictures. I say it's a natural stone.

 

[TheRockCollector]

Bump!!!! I'm not sure Rock Collector, because it's so small, I think it may be natural, though the dimple looks like pictures of nutting stones. There are alot of natural conditions that cause this sort of formation. Are nutting stones found in your area? Hopefully someone from near your part of the world will speak up

Here's a more zoomed in picture.
http://m1194.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/TheRockCollector/photo-2.jpg.html?o=0&newest=1

 

[TheRockCollector]

Really hard to tell, picture is so small, and poor quality (no offense) that you can't blow it up to look inside the hole... From what you can see, personally I lean towards a geofact..... I found a lot of them in Missouri like that and 99.9% were geofacts.... The ones that were real showed signs in the hole of being worked or used by man.....Just my opinion...

Here is an even better picture.
http://m1194.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/TheRockCollector/photo-2.jpg.html?o=0&newest=1

 

[TheRockCollector]

If the indentation had been used as a Bow Drill Capstone it would be worn very smooth and highly polished inside the hole and I don't see that in your pictures. I say it's a natural stone.

What's is a nuting stones hole like?
And heres a closer look I made it more zoomed in the hole.
http://m1194.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/TheRockCollector/photo-2.jpg.html?o=0&newest=1

 

[joshuaream]

What's is a nuting stones hole like?

It should be smooth and even, and pretty much round. Any rough spots would be polished off, or if too hard would have just put too much friction on the stick being rotated below (in the case of a bow drill) and wouldn't have worked.

 

[TheRockCollector]

What's is a nuting stones hole like?

It should be smooth and even, and pretty much round. Any rough spots would be polished off, or if too hard would have just put too much friction on the stick being rotated below (in the case of a bow drill) and wouldn't have worked.

What do you think it may be?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

What's is a nuting stones hole like?

It should be smooth and even, and pretty much round. Any rough spots would be polished off, or if too hard would have just put too much friction on the stick being rotated below (in the case of a bow drill) and wouldn't have worked.

What do you think it may be?

Geofact, rock, also sometimes known as indian sex rock.......

 

[TheRockCollector]

Geofact, rock, also sometimes known as indian sex rock.......

Lol thx for your help!

 

[tomclark]

I think it's too small to be an effective capstone and would be almost an effigy nutting stone.....and nutting stones are not usually that narrowly "holed", but rather larger and indented..at least IMHOP.
I have found a few of both and they are generally within certain hand sized ranges. We do have to look and look and look over and over on some pieces, don't we! Especially with tools and even more, expediently made tools.. could be some other sort of abrading stone?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

That is a natural hole from erosion and not from grinding or pecking so it's a geofact.