Opinion on this one.

[digger460]

Was metal detecting yesteday on a farm next to the Mazon River. I had a signal which was directly under this. The signal was another square nail, but I thought this piece of lime stone was interesting enough where I had to ask some questions about it.

About a quarter mile on the other side of the river is a well known Native American camp. Off limits to hunt because it's on private property. The river in that area has produced alot of artifacts in the past.

I guess my question is, did they use limestone for any type of tools/weapons?

Me thinking is, water erosion, or maybe a dissolve root, but I didn't want to leave behind just in case.

Your thoughts?

Thanks for looking! HH

 

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[rock]

natural would be my guess

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Definitely natural.

 

[arrow86]

Interesting deep groove but I also would say natural

 

[unclemac]

folk used whatever they had to work with so yes, limestone while not a first choice was used for lack of better stone. we see lots of quarts points on this site...hard to work with and most are pretty crude...but you use what you have to work with.

 

[unclemac]

folk used whatever they had to work with so yes, limestone while not a first choice was used for lack of better stone. we see lots of quarts points on this site...hard to work with and most are pretty crude...but you use what you have to work with.

quartz i mean quartz...geez how embarrassing

 

[scruggs]

Pretty sure it’s natural. Nature can do some Interesting things.