✅ SOLVED The Sickle Mounds Petroglyphic Headstone

[BeccaRah]

The Sickle Mound's Headstone

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[Ant]

If I found that rock I would think that it was fracturesd first, and then moisture invaded the cracks, and then it froze causing rock chips to lift up and brake away leaving what is seen.

 

[cheese]

Looks like damage from a harrow disk. Farmers did and still do remove rocks from the fields and pile them up away from the area to keep from hurting the equipment.

 

[Mark Todd]

Sorry, but I don't see anything particularly unusual about that stone. I've seen a whole lot of stranger "natural" shapes and apparent designs in sandstone, limestone, many other types of stone. With some experience with fossils (my grandfather was an avid rock-hounder), fifteen years rock climbing all over the states, and decades of hunting and studying North American Indian artifacts,I think that the "cut"(s) as you put it are just due to natural erosion. I'd love to be wrong, I always look forward to seeing anyone's late great discovery, but I'm afraid this isn't it. Keep looking, who knows what you might find?

 

[Daryn]

I have an area near me that has a glacier rock spill and there are a bunch of stones just like that. But hey, you never know. Looks natural though from frost and freezing.

 

[kingskid1611]

Now where are these woods? You have some interesting things there. Have you researched the area around you extensively? I would be out in the woods all the time, playing around of course..

 

[Ant]

This is why I concluded that the causation was due to natural erosion and not mechanical. I noticed that the lines didn't show evidence of scoring or evenly spaced lines, and that the mineral composition of the rock didn't look stable enough to hold score marks for decads that were made by a disc, or teeth from an excavator or dozer bucket.

 

[sutphin]

LOOKS LIKE THE OLE PIN AND FEATHER TREATMENT TO SPLITTING ROCKS??

 

[relic lover]

I thought someone had quarried stone off of it until I realized those were impressions rather than raised ridges that it appears to be in the first picture. And yes you are definitely right about a farmer needing to properly dispose of sharp trash you will often find bottle dumps under stone piles as well to protect the livestock and moreover the farmers kids feet where usually bare and there was no cure for infection back then a small cut from stepping on broken glass could be disastrous in those days. That's why so many bottles wound up down the Privy