🔎 UNIDENTIFIED A Face rock? Help please found in nc amongst tons of artifacts...

Brokensmilez

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Hello this treasure was Found in Lincolnton north Carolina... it appears to ne a teardrop shaped face with an arrow or scar maybe over his/ her / its left eye.... im very intrigued by this piece but I have no clue I what/or who this really is? Has anything like this come abroad I'm very curious and want to know all I can know about it please help thank you

I've update the photos to full size :)and added some more
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Interesting.

It may help in any identification about the context of this find.

When you say "amongst tons of artifacts." What exactly does that mean?
What other artifacts?

Please provide more information about where this was found? How it was found, that sort of information please.

What type of rock do you think this is made from?

Simply saying "What is this"? Is like calling the doctor on the telephone, and saying "I hurt, look where I am pointing. What do you think is wrong?"

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Brokensmilez

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I'm not sure why the pictures don't expand and all stay in the original size. Some are really out of focus and one can't get a sense of what it is or the detail. For example photo # 7 not helping the viewer in what you're trying to show.

Though I can now see in this one what you're trying to state. Pretty cool actually.
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I will try to repost photos and make sure there clear .. thank you for your input
 

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Brokensmilez

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Few more pictures as I don't think my last edit actually posted all the pics I added....
 

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HuntinDog

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A lot of your stones look worked, but that's about it.
Your first picture in your last post looks like it has 1941 on it. Maybe that is the date of all of them.
Your face stone is defiantly handmade and I would have brought that one home for sure.
 

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... the 1941 date is the clue I needed. That face rock is obviously the full face image of Kilroy before heading off to WW2. He was spotted everywhere there, peeking over an edge, only showing his bald head, beady eyes and big nose. He was considered graffiti but now has to be the worlds first meme.
Kilroy was here...
 

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Hello this treasure was Found in Lincolnton north Carolina... it appears to ne a teardrop shaped face with an arrow or scar maybe over his/ her / its left eye.... im very intrigued by this piece but I have no clue I what/or who this really is? Has anything like this come abroad I'm very curious and want to know all I can know about it please help thank you

I've update the photos to full size :)and added some more View attachment 2002108
Newbie here . . .
I agree after looking at most of the images you show in various posts below:
-- yep, the face is man made, but pretty poor. The poster who notes it is likely a meme of Kilroy is probably right on since another is marked with 1941.
-- I was surprised no one pointed out the obvious-ness of the circlular blind hole in a rock. That appears to be an attempt at making a firestarter-- https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/3b/5a/913b5ae0c5e530a6617b62f5925c19c8.jpg
-- Finally, the X mark is pretty sure proof of hand working.
MY guess: Some kid was playing with his dad's tools trying make things, just puttering around.
Interesting but likely all not of much value except to . . . the finder! Nothing wrong with that.
 

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Some of the pictures look like grinding stones, (for acorns and grains perhaps) Similar features are common in Native American camps. This being an indication of civilization gives credence to the idea of the others being carved and not happenstance.
Possibly the stones can be dated by the patina of the surface. Exposed rock does deteriorate. Decomposed granite being one well known example. .
 

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