Help identifying stone tool

[ChopperKY]

Hello all, Last summer, I was helping Pop dig a water line across a field here on the farm. We were a good 3 feet down with the backhoe, and this turned up in a bucket of dirt and rock and clay.

Very dense hard heavy stone, quartz like veining, some glitter in the sunlight. Edge is worked into the curve in the split in the stone. Yellowish quartz inclusion by the crack on one side. Fits the hand perfectly.

Thoughts? Any help is appreciated in advance.
Farm is in central Kentucky. Have found many stone tools here in fields and creeks, and a paleo point so far as well.

 

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[A2coins]

Thats a beauty

 

[A2coins]

Welcome from Mi. Tommy

 

[Yak1366]

Very nice find, Congrats!!!

And welcome to TNet!!!

 

[unclemac]

...well...the "cut" is a natural formation....no doubt about it.

 

[ChopperKY]

...well...the "cut" is a natural formation....no doubt about it.

Agreed.... whoever worked this stone used the split in the rock. You can drag hemp twine through the split into the worked area and it will catch the twine and help cut it as you pull.

The property here is on limestone shelves... deposits full of marine fossils, quartz geodes, fossilized coral, flint nodules, hornstone nodules.... but ive never come across any stone like this on the property. It's a perfect piece for what it is... It was a special piece in the toolbox for someone, for sure.

I know dating the piece is virtually impossible, I've stone artifacts and points and tools here dating back to paleo. Hilly terrain, this is one of the 3 highest points in our county. The headwaters for the Dix river starts on this property with 11 springs making a creek.

I'm working now on opening a collapsed cave entrance now here on the property. I'll post pics of the hand axe (?) I found near the mouth of the collapsed cave in just a bit.

 

[ChopperKY]

I just noticed the Indian Artifact Forum... im new here... is there a Moderator that might could move my post to the appropriate Forum?? Many thanks in advance if so!!

 

[old digger]

It not an artifact, it's a natural rock.

 

[Tony in SC]

Interesting, but I think it's natural.

 

[osage express]

I would say natural too. But if an Indian found it, it would probably end up sticking out of someone's head

 

[flinthunter]

I have to agree with natural. I don't see any sign of it being shaped/worked into its present form.

 

[AlabamaRelic]

Indian Sex Stone.

 

[N/A]

It looks like something they would use to grind corn/acorns