Geofact ?( pics added )

[Jazdo]

Roughly 6 by 4 inches this stone weighs about a pound or so.. fits the hand extremely well but not sure what use would have been. any thoughts?

 

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[dustintimmons_83]

Re: Geofact ?

i have no ideal what that is,but its still pretty cool looking.i couldnt think what it would be used for.

 

[stryker-one]

Re: Geofact ?

Well that is very interesting. I too have no clue what it would be used for. I would keep it till I got really tired of it though. That thumb cut out is a head scratcher.


Thanks for sharing


Stryker

 

[Cannonman17]

Re: Geofact ?

What an odd rock- What does the bottom side look like?

 

[Jazdo]

Re: Geofact ?

Like this

 

[Cannonman17]

Re: Geofact ?

I'll vote geofact but a very cool rock- it looks interesting when you show how your thumb looks in there but when your thumb is out of the way you can see the hole is odd shaped and not just for a thumb... all the little angles and holes just don't look intentional. I asked to see the bottom because I thought maybe a native picked it up and say wow, fits good, and used it as a hammer stone but the bottom doesn't show any were either... that one would actually make it to my rock garden, cool piece.

 

[Jazdo]

Re: Geofact ?

Down the hillside I hunted the creekbed... found these First one a blade I believe second a hematite piece I can tell from the weight it was on a log hidden by some bark. the last two not sure just odd looking..

 

[dustintimmons_83]

Re: Geofact ?

in my opinion the third one looks like somthing to me

 

[Jazdo]

Re: Geofact ?

Here is a different picture of 100 2635.. and a few other things found at the same creek but opposite direction.

 

[dustintimmons_83]

im not so sure now.sorrry

 

[luckyinkentucky]

I'm new to the forum, but I'm going to add my 2 cents.

I don't think they are Geofacts. I've found several of the same/similar type stuff around here in Kentucky. Just because we don't have a modern classification for it, or 'name' for it, doesn't mean it's not an indian artifact.

A lot of you all must remember that up until an atl-atl weight was found attached to an atl-atl by W.S. Webb back in the 1930's people thought bannerstones were 'Geo-Facts' or pendants at best! It will take some more of these to be found for them to classify them, and they will get some archaeologist's attention, and they will figure it out. That looks like sandstone in the first pic, and sandstone wouldn't erode in simetry like the pic shows. Those look like man-formed stones.

 

[Cannonman17]

bannerstone were never thought of as being geofacts... people didn't know what they were used for but they were obviously artifacts. Sandstone can and will errode to all kinds of crazy shapes- look at Wisconsin Dells and what water did to the sandstone there although this rock doesn't look like sandstone in the pic...

 

[razor]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to vote geofact as well on most of the stuff. That one grooved piece looks interesting though. Razor

 

[Jazdo]

I am not sure if the first eight pictures are of a sandstone rock or not ? How do I tell?

 

[bruce]

Jazdo,
You remind of the way I was when I first found my first artifact
my imagination went wild and that a good thing. Though nothing
seems to me to be truly real there would be more signs of ware
and more symmetrical in thier making of the object. I am not a
expert but been around. Sandstone will sand with coarse paper.

Keep hunting,
Bruce

 

[Cannonman17]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to vote geofact as well on most of the stuff. That one grooved piece looks interesting though. Razor

Interesting perhaps but it's not grooved as in the sense that it was made that way, it's a banded material and different types of rocks will wear away at different speeds. If you look close you can see other veins of that same material running in other directions from the big one, might have made a handy piece to start making an axe out of since it has the rough shape already but then again there are often times weaknesses in the different rock layers like that. It's quite possible that if you hit that stone hard enough on another one it would break on a plain between the two types of material.