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Offline ---GUTSHOT--->

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I.D. This artifact
« on: October 31, 2016, 11:35:06 am »
This stone came from a creek here in Ky. It's 6" long 2" across 1" through. It's oval in shape with one end broke straight off other end tapers to a blunt end. Can I get some info on it and what it could've been used for. Thanks Paul


Offline looper

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Re: I.D. This artifact
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2016, 12:23:12 pm »
A pestle, maybe?

Offline chigger

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Re: I.D. This artifact
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2016, 12:48:39 pm »
pestle


Offline mullet

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Re: I.D. This artifact
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2016, 07:22:47 pm »
I'd say Pestle also, or an unfinished ground ax.
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Offline Zuma

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Re: I.D. This artifact
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2016, 08:08:22 pm »
I would agree with the other gentlemen.
I seems to have a nice sheen/polish. From hands
and materials crushed.I find similar mostly un- modified
rocks in almost all native American sites.  Maybe just  a
rock broken to create the flat end.
If the surface is pecked then there is no doubt about a pestle.
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Offline Urufu_Shinjiro

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Re: I.D. This artifact
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2016, 10:10:57 am »
Did you find a vessel near the pestle, perhaps a pellet with the poison?