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Offline bryan irwin

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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2010, 10:56:33 pm »
It was right below the dam on 74 at lilesville. and man this is some tough rock done wore out my copper bopper and broke all my hammer stones. broke some up with a 2# hammer and man the sparkes flew thought i was starting a fire.   ;D
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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2010, 11:27:45 pm »
 Steven, I've drilled blast holes, yep, we have drilled them that close. It depends on the charge and what we want to do with it. I had a blasters license in the 70's.
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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2010, 04:17:13 pm »
Bryan you may be on to something...look at the similarities in the grooves of this axe recovered from Town Creek Indian Mounds verrrrrry close (geologically speaking) to where you found that one at.

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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2010, 08:53:56 pm »
Being rhyolite i dont think it was natural erosion.
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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2010, 11:59:31 pm »
"better than a potato chip Madonna"
Man, I ought to keep my 2 cents in my pocket on this one, but what the heck. ;D

How about both, natural erosion with a little utilization.
In the first pic, on the left side, you can see vertical ridges running thru the horizontal grooves
that could only remain from natural erosion. But on the right side of the rock you don't see
those ridges, as much. In the second pic the right side of the rock is up and the lower portion
of the grooves seem to show some grinding or wear.
What if someone found this rock in the river, with the grooves allready naturally eroded, and
decided it wouldn't take too much effort to haft it and use it to quarry/spall some rock up the
hill there? Maybe he was lucky enough to get a few hours of use out of it, before the ends got
broken into what we see now.
Just a thought about a really strange looking rock found in an area of obvious activity that makes
it suspicious.
You gotta wonder............. ;)

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Offline Bill Skinner

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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2010, 02:50:41 pm »
I think Arappaho is on the right track.  Bill

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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2010, 07:40:02 pm »
I'm with Bill, I think Arappaho got a very good explanation.
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Re: Fonud this rock. Any idea?
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2010, 10:53:16 pm »
Cool.  ;)