Hello all,
I work for a local quarry, and I often find deposits in the PA sandstone that look like this.
My boss wants me to figure out what it is.
It is not magnetic.
I also might add, it is very heavy compared to normal sandstone.
Thanks!
Hello. I found this large stone artifact while hiking this weekend, I thought it looked like an old weapon head or tool.
It has hole indents on the top and bottom. Just looking for some information on what it could actually be, thank you.
Any ideas on this?
I keep hearing "vesicular basalt" but this has me stumped. Found near Lone Mountain Nevada yesterday evening, was the ONLY rock like it within my field of view. It's heavy for it's size (about as heavy as 2 cans of pepsi), has what I think is a very worn fusion crust, has...
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Just got home from an open market/yard sale thing and I found these beautiful stone things that I cannot figure out the function of. I thought they’re maybe for watercolor pigments and water but they’re too large. What do you think?
Possible Native American maul (left photo)? The only reason I ask is it was found in a collection with other 'actual' mauls that have grooves for hafting. Also, it does seem to have some tip wear. This is the only photo I have...
Find this in Northwest Louisiana. Multi layer with multi color in the close outline of a toad on top. Flip it over and there is a clearly a toad on bottom... there's a chipped "mouth" all 4 nubs where the legs are. And a little froggy tail between the back legs.
Can someone please help...
Hello! I found this rock in Cooperstown, New York. It doesn't worth anything probably but I am curious what kind of rock it is? It looks like a snake skin/ reptile skin. I found something on Google about the snakeskin agate but my stone doesn't look really like that. Thank you!
Hi,
My name is Taylor, I am new to the forum. This is my first post 😊!
I clear estate for a living and recently came across some interesting items.
One of them is a black stone crystal type rock or mineral that has goldish? color specks throughout every stone.
I have a handful of them and cant...
Hello, my dad has dig with excavator this stone 10 years ago in Italy, it was for a long time in house and i decide to find answer what really this stone is, i was searching like 10 hours but cant find anything similar? anyone have an idea what this is ?
Hi guys,
I found this hammer/tool stone by my grandparents' farm here in central Saskatchewan. Any ideas of what its use might have been?
Its about 4.5" long and 3" tall. Any input would be great!
Cheers
Did my son find a meteor? - No, appears he didn't...
Hi from England.
Family and I were down on the English coast today looking for fossils and my son found what we though was a lump of rusty metal. We let him bring it home so we could google it but no luck. I think it might be a stone meteor...
Any info on this face effigy with 1 eye closed & other open? Is it supp.2 be good/ba
Hi, I found this buried about 8inches deep in the ground under a huge tree !! There are Indian mounds all over the area and artifacts ...This was found in llano county !! I read somewhere that the Indians...
I found this stone while walking on the street, I took it up because it looked interesting and when I held it it was very heavy for a stone that size. I took my phone and measured with an EMF app, because an IPhone can mesure the magnetic field and the riding was like some kind of iron. When I...
I found this stone or rock or whatever I don't know what to call it, but I don't know what it is, can someone professional tell me what kind of stone is this and is it valuable or not?
I have a question what kind of stone is this? I believe that is obsidian because of it’s Glass like structure and because when i broke a bit of it it broke like obsidian and it was very sharp