Help identifying artifact

[buckybeaver]

Hello,

I found this "rock" along a river bank in Michigan where I have found arrowheads in the past. I am wondering if it is a hammerstone.

 

[antmike915]

I believe it too be natural, mother nature is a artist sometimes. I would've brought it home too.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

If it was used as a hammer stone, it would show some use wear on what would be the working end.
What’s that end look like? Smooth like the rest of the stone?

Neat looking rock. Kind of looks like something ate part of a potato.
That’s how I would display it...with a fur mouse laying by it with an engorged stomach.

Meteorite?

 

[buckybeaver]

If it was used as a hammer stone, it would show some use wear on what would be the working end.
What’s that end look like? Smooth like the rest of the stone?

Neat looking rock. Kind of looks like something ate part of a potato.
That’s how I would display it...with a fur mouse laying by it with an engorged stomach.

Meteorite?

Thank you for the information.Yes its smooth all over, It will still be a cool rock for my desk.

 

[Otepgod]

I would say fully eroded omar.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Very cool naturally eroded stone. I would have brought it home too.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Drill a hole in the bottom and turn that into your gearshifter in your car.

 

[Garscale]

Its not an artifact but man thats a cool rock.

 

[rginn]

Natural but very cool.

 

[Charl]

What a cool rock. It would have started its life as a rock, as part of a thick formation, even thousands of feet thick, in the case of some formations. Because Michigan was glaciated, its smoothness might suggest it was a polished glacial cobble at one time. Still is. The gap might be because there was a softer, more weather prone type of rock filling that void, and what’s called differential weathering weathered it away from the more resistant parts of the stone, leaving you with a nice conversation piece.