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Title: I.D. This artifact
Post by: ---GUTSHOT---> 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

(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/psmith311/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-10/50281438-1463-49A3-AE88-387C6CD9F4EB_zpsj05iggyd.jpg) (http://s1278.photobucket.com/user/psmith311/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2016-10/50281438-1463-49A3-AE88-387C6CD9F4EB_zpsj05iggyd.jpg.html)

Title: Re: I.D. This artifact
Post by: looper on October 31, 2016, 12:23:12 pm

A pestle, maybe?

Title: Re: I.D. This artifact
Post by: chigger on October 31, 2016, 12:48:39 pm

pestle

Title: Re: I.D. This artifact
Post by: mullet on October 31, 2016, 07:22:47 pm

I'd say Pestle also, or an unfinished ground ax.

Title: Re: I.D. This artifact
Post by: Zuma 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.
Zuma

Title: Re: I.D. This artifact
Post by: Urufu_Shinjiro on November 01, 2016, 10:10:57 am

Did you find a vessel near the pestle, perhaps a pellet with the poison?