Pebble Pendant?

[romeo-1]

My son found this on one of our hikes and I was wondering if this may be a pebble pendant. East coast Canada. Thanks!

 

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[welsbury]

Looks like it has been drilled from one side. Can you see the drill marks?

 

[Kray Gelder]

Pretty cool rock. It looks like it would work as a pendant. I would ask myself though, why would a person expend the energy to wear a hole in this mundane rock? Couldn't they find a prettier stone to wear around their neck?

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, it is made from slate, so a marine creature's hole would not remain on a metamorphic rock like slate.

 

[justonemore]

Found any where near water?

 

[Charl]

It does appear to be drilled from one side. Most native pieces are biconically drilled, so drilled from both sides. Still, it looks like it was drilled, and not a natural hole. The question is whether ancient or modern. I am also wondering if it a waterworn broken piece of something bigger.

 

[sandchip]

That's what I was thinking. Broken Adena drilled gorget either salvaged or waterworn as Charl mentioned.

 

[willjo]

Looks like some of the stuff we find that is made out of soapstone or Steatite, and it was used for pendants and cooking stones.

 

[quito]

Usually something drilled from one side will blow out some on the opposite site. I don’t see any evidence of that.

also, if it had been suspended for a period of time, the hole wouldn’t be so symmetrical mainly from wear at the suspension point.