What could this possibly be?!?

[yadilos]

Hey guys,

My step son found this a few days ago and he has me stumped. He's in southeastern WI and was on a telephone hole digging crew that day (normally he is digging trenches to lay cable lines). He said it came up from about three feet down when the hole was being dug. He thinks the square hole appears to have hand made marks, and said the hole goes about half way through the stone.

Any ideas? Man made? Natural I can't think of anyone purposely spending the time to do something like that by hand!

Thanks much,

Mike

 

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[jeff of pa]

what does the other side look like ?

 

[yadilos]

Sure, I'll have him shoot a few more shots and post them...

Thanks

 

[littleneckhalfshell]

I will just throw this in as a guess, the rock looks sedimentary? maybe when it formed there was a pyrite crystal there and the pyrite has since either deteriorated or fell out? maybe?

 

[waxy luster]

FWIW -
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/333753-natural-occurence.html


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[unclemac]

Natural and not completely rare, but interesting all the same.

 

[jeff of pa]

I on the other hand, will never believe that is natural, unless like littleneckhalfshell says.

I don't believe natural elements can cause a perfect square hole in a rock more then Once. Ever.
and the odds of finding it, even rarer.

I personally could believe it is a fossil formed when the rock was soft,
or carved in a time period long forgotten.

it's like calling The Nazca Lines a natural occurence to me.

and of course slaves built the pyramids

 

[mirage83]

I'll vote as non-naturally occurring. That rectangular opening on that side just looks too regular for it to be natural.

 

[Butter Hat]

Hey guys,

My step son found this a few days ago and he has me stumped. He's in southeastern WI and was on a telephone hole digging crew that day (normally he is digging trenches to lay cable lines). He said it came up from about three feet down when the hole was being dug. He thinks the square hole appears to have hand made marks, and said the hole goes about half way through the stone.

Any ideas? Man made? Natural I can't think of anyone purposely spending the time to do something like that by hand!

Thanks much,

Mike

Take it to a natural history museum for a consult?

 

[Hot zone]

One of Bambam's blocks on the Flintstones! Know what would be really Stupid? Finding the round stone peg to go with it!
I can never remember: round peg square hole or square peg round hole!

 

[pa plateau hiker]

Looks like an old door knob to me.

 

[Fafe]

Don't know what it is or what it was used for , but I feel VERY certain it's NOT natural! Looks like something the Nephilim in the U.S. made!

 

[unclemac]

100% natural. I even find natural stones with hexagons...it is the space where a crystalline structure has weathered out.

post this over on the Native American section and run it by them...you will see.

 

[Hot zone]

A bearing stone for bow drill fire starting! Wait, round peg square hole again.

 

[yadilos]

A few more pictures of the rock. I'm leaning toward natural too... pyrite crystal perhaps. Sure is a cool rock regardless of how that square hole got there.

 

[Hot zone]

Cool rock, but I am leaning toward ancient aliens!

 

[flyadive]

You say it is stone? Tool markings are straight lines? Only way to make that rectangle slot would be to chisel it, guess you could use an end mill on a Bridgeport to slot it and then chisel the corners or file! ( circular markings on bottom )

Why?? Keeper to stop something from turning ?
Wait......! Lightning strikes an old pole and energy is transferred through an old metal spike and transforming the slot into the stone!!

WI cheeeeeeeze!

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I don't believe natural elements can cause a perfect square hole in a rock more then Once. Ever.
and the odds of finding it, even rarer.

Several minerals for square crystals.

Galena.


Pyrite


Fluorite



One of these could have been dislodged and later formed in a sedimentary matrix and then knocked out as the rock was tumbled in a river, stream or glacier.

One in a million chance? But if one happens every million years then nature has had 6,000 chances since the Earth's crust formed. ;-)

 

[unclemac]

really nice picture by the way...it is nice to see something so clear for us to identify.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Not a rock expert here, or geologist...but I would have lost good money betting that that rock was NOT a natural occurrence...appeared hand-formed to me, that is..until unclemac and Charlie P. proved otherwise...But anyway-great find !! Definitely a keeper and conversation piece ! Thanks for sharing..thoroughly enjoyed it..ddf