What is this?

[Chaseolio]

My brother found this in a South-western Washington State stream in the forest. It appears to be made of stone, and is almost a perfect sphere. Anyone know what it could be? Perhaps a native american game piece or weapon of some sort?

 

[rock]

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[rock]

If its stone then yes it could be welcome to the site.

 

[Tnmountains]

Possible but when not found in context with other artifacts the odds drop sharply. It seems mother nature made many perfectly round rocks of various sizes.
So with out other actual artifacts it would fall into the category of "round rocks".

Welcome to t-net and look forward to reading your post

 

[scepter1]

Could you take some more / better photos of multiple sides? Including some closeups. Did you try to scratch it (make sure it is actually rock)?

 

[Mekong Mike]

some early cannon balls were made from stone, or it could have been used to make a mold to make cannon balls out of lead.

 

[scepter1]

I have found several old turn of the century logging sites in that area, but they really didn't have much use for cannons there, but a description of southwest is pretty vague...

 

[unclemac]

haven't I seen full on round but covered in rawhide head knockers?

 

[scepter1]

How much does it weigh?

 

[UNC_]

i used to have 2 rounds stones like that 1 i was told by a person of indian decent they was used in games

 

[monsterrack]

What I can see from photo is that it's not much bigger than a silver dollar, more pics would help. It's a good findDue to the size, if it is stone it may be a game stone, to small I think for a weapon or mother nature can do some awesome things with stone.

 

[Chaseolio]

It's a little bit smaller than a baseball

 

[unclemac]

like this?