🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Stone Ball

[hatetoorun]

Hello folks,

I found this on a ridge of a friend’s property near Lookout Mountain by the GA/TN/AL border. There is no river or stream nearby. The mountains are limestone from my understanding.
I am wanting to know if this is natural or an Indian game ball that I have read about. There seems to be a fingertip indention.

Thanks for the help. I just found this site and look forward learning.

 

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[robertk]

A game ball would not have a fingertip indentation (that would prevent it rolling right). Are you sure it's stone? It looks like a petrified walnut.

 

[hatetoorun]

A game ball would not have a fingertip indentation (that would prevent it rolling right). Are you sure it's stone? It looks like a petrified walnut.

It feels as heavy as similar size stones. It feels like it has some heft to it. I’m not well versed in this stuff whatsoever. I was almost tempted to crack it open immediately, but decided to research it first. I had found it near an area with jagged rocks and it stood out to me as it was shaped like a ball. I do not recall seeing walnut trees nearby, but clearly things change over time. I had Google searched “ball shaped stone north Georgia” and that’s where the idea of a game ball came up.

 

[hatetoorun]

It feels as heavy as similar size stones. It feels like it has some heft to it. I’m not well versed in this stuff whatsoever. I was almost tempted to crack it open immediately, but decided to research it first. I had found it near an area with jagged rocks and it stood out to me as it was shaped like a ball. I do not recall seeing walnut trees nearby, but clearly things change over time. I had Google searched “ball shaped stone north Georgia” and that’s where the idea of a game ball came up.

The more I look online, I’m thinking I was on the correct path with my initial thoughts when I thought about cracking it open. Seems it might just be a barite nodule.

 

[robertk]

There are some folks with way more expertise than me over in the North American Indian Artifacts forum. Before you crack it, you might want to repost your question over there.

 

[unclemac]

not an artifact. The concept of a "Indian game ball" is grossly misleading on the internet.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Not an artifact, but it might be a nice geode.