Another what is it?

[elliemae]

Here's the second one from my friend, It is 7 inches long, 4 inch wide and has depression on each side, one is about 1 inch wide and and about a inch deep, the other side it's 1.5 inches wide and 1 inch deep. The depressions are perfectlly round, and the surface is smooth, with no tool marks.

 

[omnicognic]

this one looks like an axe head

 

[trevmma]

it looks like a nutting stone

 

[ohioaxeman]

its a pitted stone tool...more like a big hammerstone with finger depressions. i have about 10 or so of them!

 

[MEinWV]

Being that big, it is more than likely a "workbench", or "anvil stone". These are used to crack things open such as nuts, (where the term "nutting stone" comes from), and also to split flint nodules in the production of spearpoints and arrowheads.

Nice find you have there!

 

[Atlantis0077]

Yeppers,


Its a nutstone. You find a ton of them in Louisiana....archaic/woodland pieces. Did they actually use them to crack nuts....well that is up for debate. I guess that is as good a guess as any. Nice find.

Atlantis