🔎 UNIDENTIFIED What are these ??identical stones - Stone anomaly or man made?

[cowsaretrippy]

So, I have these 2 items found them in different fields of the same farm .. they are coincidentally both indented very similarly in the back and rear sides they both appear balanced. the small one lays completely flat on the ground whereas the larger one lays flat on the surface then angles slightly upward at about half it's length.

Wish the photos did better justice,
Any ideas?

 

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[crashbandicoot]

Fortunately this is not a psychiatrical forum. Please try to limit your interpretation to the items posted.

Recognizing that Pareidolia can have an influence on ID of an object is not a psychiatric judgement or disrespect for OPs item. It,s often an essential part of the process. To ignore it is to leave out a part of that process.

 

[unclemac]

we are not in school, we are hobbyists trying to inform other members as simply and succinctly as possible. We are here because we love to learn from others that possess esoteric knowledge in areas we share an interest in. Each one of us have little tidbits of specific information that, gathered over time, we find very powerful in answering our questions.

 

[blauer]

Pareidolia: the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.

 

[pepperj]

Fortunately this is not a psychiatrical forum. Please try to limit your interpretation to the items posted.

Nobody broke any rules here.


So when you get the moderator label under your name police us then.

 

[unclemac]

I don't see at all what you are seeing, stromatolites? they look the same because they are made from the same stone material and have the same fracture planes and identities. They were found in the same area and had the same erosive pressures on them over time. I do indeed see the look they share with a tack hammer of sorts but they show no modification other than natural, nor are they big or heavy enough to have been used for striking, nor do they show any use wear. I myself have run into areas that produce odd shaped stones that mimic each other but are unusual in different environments. These too are natural and are produced and deposited as I have mentioned above.

 

[blauer]

Fortunately this is not a psychiatrical forum. Please try to limit your interpretation to the items posted.

LOL. Your perception limits interpretation. Get a mind and think it through. Try some punctuation and spelling (start there).

 

[unclemac]

posting is not plagiarizing, we do it all the time here to explain simple concepts and facts.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Fortunately this is not a psychiatrical forum. Please try to limit your interpretation to the items posted.

LOL. Please try not to plagiarize from Wikipedia.

Cloudkicker, please leave the moderating of our forum to the moderators.

 

[crashbandicoot]

LOL. Please try not to plagiarize from Wikipedia.

To explain a concept,it helps to post a definition of that concept. Got to get it somewhere,Wiki is handy for that.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I agree. I see banding. I'd like to see it smoothed off. Not a big deal. The physics that you describe are made likely in the examples I showed. Regardless, they 100% natural, IMO.

Produced and deposited as you mentioned.

 

[bowwinkles]

My feeling is that during that Erra they also had regular hammers and tack hammers. Just add a bit of wood as handles and some raw hide to secure them to the ends and walla, you now have a couple of pre historic tools.

 

[Timbermaster]

Interesting for sure. I really want to say they are natural unworked stones. But they look too similar, like they were fashioned and used for a purpose. I’m on the fence and can’t say either way. Good post.

 

[CaptEsteban]

I am posting this just so others can see that " pareidolia" is a common word used in archaeology . NOT, a description of a mental disorder . SO, this term may be used in this thread , among others.

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[bowwinkles]

Come on fellows let's get back on topic and do away with the "wordology" (how's that for a term to talk about?

 

[cowsaretrippy]

I genuinely appreciate all the responses! .. one last question .. found this guy Sunday at the farm .. drilled through, maybe the other half got broken off .. can anyone infer what it may have been used for ? .. my boyfriend says it's slate rock, sadly I don't know much at all about rock type identification. Wish I took geology back in school

 

[CloudKicker0]

Great eye!

 

[unclemac]

oddly enough the fact that you found two may indicate they are natural.

 

[Dougie Webb]

I can definitely see where you might think they were hand-made. I love rocks and collect them all the time...and have also realized it's easy to "see" patterns when you want to (not saying it's not true with yours). If you really want to know, reach out to a local college's geology department and they might be able to help.

 

[GoldieLocks]

Did you drill the perfect machined hole in the big one to send a sample to an expert? I suspect they were some kind of hand made hammer type heads that were tied to a piece of wood.They may have been Native American 19th century. I just read that they could have been used as weights for fish nets.