Any ideas wut this could be?

[bmartin0693]

A basalt artifact?

I found this in a creek in Yadkin Co., NC. The material is basalt and I know tools can be made from this material. I see no lithics but the shape looks unusual. Could this possibly be a piece of an artifact or just something natural? I'm open ears to any opinions yall may have. Thanks!

 

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IMO, Rock. Seek and ye shall find. Thanks for posting.

 

[bmartin0693]

Yeah. It is, lol. I dont find much basalt in that creek really so this piece sticks out kinda. Its looks heavily used and worn. Its a tough one, I dont know how this material would really cleave though? Cleavage being how crystals break due to stress on a specific plane on the material. Basalt is fine-grained & suppose to have perfect cleavge. Maybe like this to produce a tip with one large plane (1st pic) and two other planes, there had to be a particular stress. I'm picturing, if those planes were extended it could be something larger. My explanation, IMO.