Conglomerate or Pudding stone relics

[dognose]

I was wondering how many collectors on the forum have conglomerate or pudding stone relics in their collection.

If you got them, lets see them.

 

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[The Grim Reaper]

None in mine that I'm aware of.

 

[joshuaream]

I found two puddingstone cobbles along with a round hornstone nodule on a site in Northern Indiana. They were doorstops for many years, now they are in the rock garden at my sisters house. I'm certain they were carried to the site and cached. The puddingstone could have come from Michigan or one of the glacial moraines north of where these were found, but the hornstone was traded up.

 

[Jon Stewart]

Pudding stone is found in Michigan. Can't be knapped so I am not sure what kind of relic can be made out of them other than what has been mentioned, a door stop. I have a couple of buckets of pudding stones plus many basketball size rocks. Mother in law owns a potato farm and I find them in her rock piles.

Some rock heads slab them up, polish them and sell the slabs for coasters.

 

[joshuaream]

Pudding stone is found in Michigan. Can't be knapped so I am not sure what kind of relic can be made out of them other than what has been mentioned, a door stop. I have a couple of buckets of pudding stones plus many basketball size rocks. Mother in law owns a potato farm and I find them in her rock piles.

Some rock heads slab them up, polish them and sell the slabs for coasters.

In Indiana you rarely see it where they used porphyry or other exotic hardstones, so discoidals & pestles and occasionally bust birdstones, celts & axes. I've seen a couple of examples that I believe were authentic, but the vast majority of artifacts made from puddingstone are from the BG Era. (Bench Grinder Era.) I don't recall ever seeing a bannerstone made from one, not sure how well the material drilled.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I find it occasionally in the glacial till here in Cent. IL. I've never seen an artifact made from it. Gary
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[Charl]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddingstone_(rock)

Well, I consider this pebble with total polish to be a manuport. Meaning it was likely transported to camp, but is not itself altered. Paint stones, such as graphite and hematite, are considered manuports, and pebbles such as this as well, and are often interpreted as part of a shaman's kit of "magic stones". The field where I found this contains almost no glacially transported rocks. It is a rare New England field to be as rock free as the field where I found this. So because it was so attractive, and so polished, I was willing to make the subjective call of manuport. Had it been found in an excavated context with artifacts, the attribution of manuport would be more certain, but this was a surface find. It stood out for the reasons given, and so I believe it to be a manuport. It is a conglomerate of sorts, a breccia....







Edit: This stone is reasonably thin, or thin enough to be drilled in other words. So one might also speculate that it would have made a nice pendant if drilled....

 

[Jon Stewart]

I do have a modern man made celt made out of pudding stone that I picked up at the Flintridge knap in a few years ago so I guess it can be done. The problem with pudding stone is the colored rocks which I think are jasper tend to fall out of the main rock. Nice find Charl.