This is Weird...Natural or Otherwise?

[romeo-1]

I got out flipping for the first time in over a year. I've hunted this site for years and have never been skunked. Besides a few brokes I cam out with these pieces. I assume that the quartzite piece is a large scraper but the other hardstone piece has me scratching my head. The holes just don't look natural too me but they are squared so I can't figure if it's even possible that this is a worked piece. Any ideas?

 

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[The Grim Reaper]

Cool looking piece Romeo, but my gut is syaing a natural stone. I don't know how thye would have gotten such small square holes worked into the rock. The other piece is either a Scraper like you siad or a small Knife.

By the way, I sent you a PM.

 

[Goldmanford]

Perhaps the stone was a host to crystal cubes that have fallen out. Pyrite or galena crystals are cube-shaped. JMO

Neat find, nonetheless!

 

[Felinepeachy]

But look inside the square hole on the right. It has a perfectly round circle inside of it. That makes me think it is man made.

 

[Goldmanford]

But look inside the square hole on the right. It has a perfectly round circle inside of it. That makes me think it is man made.

I can see that on the far right square but to me that looked like a small ridge of dirt stuck in the right angle. Who knows? It's a neat find and definitely NOT a leaverite!

 

[Gecko]

Aloha Romeo,
I would have to say the square holes in the stone are where pyrite cubes have weathered out. I had a rock very like that as a kid. though it still had a couple of cubes still in it. Don't really know what happened to that rock.... hadn't thought about it in years til i saw your rock here.

 

[wells]

looks like that piece has a glazed - melted look like slag or something that was fired or in a hot fire.

 

[GaRebel1861]

Interesting. I've never seen something like that before. I'd say its a keeper because you never know when more information about it will be found / posted.

 

[Lone Star]

Yowser It doesn't appear to be a normal crystal bearing stone however more weird things have happened. It's possible the crystal was an eruption at thetime of the creation of the stone and was water soluable enough to dissapear since the millenia (or millenia) that puppy made it to the surface .
That also doesn't mean there wasn't an attempt to alter it prehistoricly, for some reason. It's real cool though. I would have kept it too. Thanks for showing. Lone Star