OK Experts, What Is This Rock? Please Help Me Indenify.

[bbrown87609]

very cool find and what a great conversation piece !!!

[redcruben]

Looks to me like a piece of sedimentary rock that has been rounded in a river, like in one of those holes worn in the bed rock by the flow turning stones like yours. these in turn can be carved quite deep. during a flood the mobile stones could be washed out and down the river thus causing the percussion damage you have on one side. the other grove on the stone could be a softer layer worn away when it was being rounded with other stones and gravel in the hole.

just a thought

[TheZacharySchultz]

break it and see what happens?

[wizardman42]

I found one like that in a river bed , a small stone had rolled around in the crook of a bigger stone till it dug a bowl. the bowl was almost perfect round and the stone inside was also .

[pestleman1951]

Page 2--My juvenile delinquent cousin got busted for swiping bowling balls from a Bowling Alley. He and his JD pals, then,driving real fast in a car, in residential neighborhoods, tossing the ball out on a curve , in the road , so the balls would smack into houses like cannonballs.Punching through several walls if thrown at high speed.If thrown into a rocky canyon, that thing could travel , gaining speed, for miles.........Hey, I would have, if no one was in the canyon. Indians had JD kids too.

[pestleman1951]

Page 1---Believe it or not, I do know how it was formed. Not necessarily was it might been used for. But it was a piece of sandstone, laying in a pool at the bottom of a large. waterfall. The waterfall had abraded out a deepened pool directly under where the falling water landed at the bottom of the falls.The chunk of sandstone tumbled in the pool until it was spherical.Many like it can be found at the base of most waterfalls.The fossils are incidental.Indians liked it and the fossils as well.

[dismaylead]

Sex stone. F**king rock

[woodsinme]

Definately old. I think Bob hit on it.

[roleplayerthegamer]

i'd smash it!

[BitHead1000]

It's a rock.

[fabianmp34]

It can have fossils insde

[quetzalamaru]

Maybe something from your ancestors from Europe or the Mayflower?

[nothinbutviper]

maybe some kind of geode

[dmeyer2626]

Hmmm... Im not sure whether to laugh at comments or be very angry at the United States Educational system, or be perplexed as to how so many people are so sure they know what type of rock you have. Wow! "Its a glaciers??" "What does that even mean?? If you can just take ONE GOOD MACRO PHOTOGRAPH?!?! 1 dry pic & 1 wet pic?! Concretiom?! wtf You cant tell jack shit from that photo. From your worthless photo it could be granite, it could even be chert?! 3 years, please remove this vid...

[gotfishhooks]

@dmeyer2626 get a life. its an interesting find.shows how little you know.vids fine - shows well enough.i liked it.

[sinjoart]

Crystallized basketball, from the stone age.

[benajahW1759]

allong the lines of what 2200bc said only I know it as a "pothole rock"

[2200bc]

These are not due to glaciers. These are called concretions and they occur in an incident when cementing material collects around the organic nucleus like a snowball as it tumbles under the force of rushing water. You can find pictures of these concretions embedded in sedimentary rock on the web.

[2200bc]

These are not due to glaciers. These are called concretions and they occur in an incident when cementing material collects around the organic nucleus as it tumbles under the force of rushing water. You can find pictures of these concretions embedded in sedimentary rock on the web.

[uni000ver000sal]

Well Tom....first you need to deduct if it has a nonsymetrical axis of symetry. Then we need to immerse in a buckect of water, mostly likely it will get wet. And finally you will need to throw it up to see if it comes down, this will only prove that gravity sucks.

[ShilgenVens]

looks like a concretion

[ZmajSnoshaj]

I have never seen a larger group of retarded human beings on one comment thread. What you have is called a "hammerstone" and was used to knapp flint/chert into tools and weapons. This is a large one and was probably used to break down larger nodules into workable cores.

[thunderjar74]

Its a cannon ball sir. During the revolutionary war iron was expensive if it could be obtained at all from England. Peoples especially here in the south found that they could chisel granite or any other hard stone into almost perfect spheres and fire them from cannons.. This was common practice and is documented not only in America but other countries that had cannons in the 16th 17th and the 18th centuries! Awesome find congratulations!

[hatchboy1]

Marsion poop!

[troyounce1]

We have them around here too! They are called "turnoids" by many, Found in the creeks,dropped out of the glaciers as has been said. That's a nice one!

[barto11000]

Perhaps you could tell us what YOU know about it, size, weight, circumference, etc. Do you see any fossils? You call it a rock, and from the pics here, I must agree, it is a rock. I would even venture to conclude that it is a fairly round rock. If you need a complete analysis of your rock, that cannot be done from a video, take it to a lab and have it tested. If you really need to know if it contains fossils, take a hammer and smack the damn thing until it breaks.

[pitatapiu]

100% it's a concretion. A geofact.

[Lenape84]

The 1st bowling ball

[nametide]

looks like 2 abolognies humpin and freezed together died and became foscilized or somthin no clue im just guessing from the looks of it

[poopstreek]

It is a canoe anchor. We have those all over here.

[rednecklowlife]

What you have there sir ....Is a petrafied alein egg... That fell out of the sky. That explains the damage. Probably from the outer galaxy midlands....I would have to date it around... 7203 b.c. from looking at the cereable cortex... I hope i answered all your questions... DR. DIDNTDOIT.

[TonyNTenn]

i think its a fossil from the ice age but also used by north americans early to have as hammerstone(damaged area undernreath) i think someone long ago found and used it before disgarding it. i would think it wouldnt have been carried far so whereever you found it go back and look for flint! it would have been in the camp if im right. tonyntenn

[tdd4art]

I don't know what it is but you can make anything up and put it on Ebay

[manixman333]

Could be a large hammerstone.

[ulcohatchee1959]

Appears to be a round rock with a hole in it. Just a rock.

[MrLordbigtoe]

It could be used to make an arrow shaft true on that one side.

[sorrowaxe]

ALSO LOOK TO LARGE TO BE A HAMMER STONE AND DEF TO BIG TO BE A GAME BALL IM A MEMBER OF THE AACA, AUTHENTIC ARTIFACT COLLECTORS ASSOICIATION AND A NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACT DEALER IM NO EXPERT BUT I KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT KINDA STUFF THAN MOST AND IF YOU POSTED THAT ON THERE FORUMS THEY WOULD CALL THAT A GEOFACT A NATURAL FORMATION THAT LOOKS MAN MADE

HOWEVER IF YOU ARE INTO NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS YOU SHOULD JOIN UP I WONT SPAM YOUR PAGE JUST ASK FOR WEB ADRESS

[sorrowaxe]

HI SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONCE DIDNT SEE YOU ANSWERED BACK I STILL THINK ITS A NODULE OF SOME FORM ITS A DIFFERENT MINERAL FORMATION THAT WAS SOROUNDED BY ANOTHER TYPE OF STONE THAT DIDNT MIX AND WHEN THE SOROUNDING STONE ERODED AWAY THAT IS WHAT FELL OR CAME LOOSE THOUGH THE ONES I HAD FOUND IN THAT OVER HANGING ROCK WALL WEAR NOT AS ROUND MORE TURNIP SHAPED

[sprucewood57]

ASK MIKEY.. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING!!

[Thadderick]

there are a couple things that it could be. northstar says it's a hammer stone, which it may be, but it also might be what the indians called a game stone. it's pretty round and looks do be ground down. game stones were used as target practice. one guy rolled a round stone, while others shot at it for practice. it could have also been a form of fishing weight. it sounds crazy, but it looks very similar to a much larger version of a native american "sinker."

[xxfilipinogirlxx]

The first one is a butt!!!!!!!!!!!ha ha weird.

[xxfilipinogirlxx]

The first one is a  b

[SonnyRix]

it's a ijut rock ya ijut~~

[o0lBobl0o]

It's sedimentary stone that was pushed in a glacier till it was worn round then dropped and buried till you found it. there are a lot of round stones found on in east usa. That's why the bands. That's why the fossils. that's why the round. it wore into a band of softer stone to make the groove.

[FusionNinjin]

the wite edges suggests its been cut into shape

[runingblackbear]

its a butt rock see the crack in it

[101egals]

If its round it could be a cannon ball. There have been know examples of the British using stone for cannon ball and you said you found not far from the area know as Kings Mt Nc right.

[LAcountryboy10]

this is not an artifact...a cool rock perhaps

[gumper5242]

Cool Rock !

[MsSissy01]

I think its a Indian artifact

[farfromneckid]

I do believe it is a concretion, a natural formation. Somtimes when some very large rocks were formed and cooled, they had air pockets or bubbles in them. If the large rock had some cracks in it, other types of minerals would seep into the holes and create that ball over millions of years. The 'host' rock often wears away leaving the unique shapes. I have one that resembles a bowling pin. Cool find!!

[gtrpkr1]

Its a Ozark sexstone..Another F----ing rock

[nonamesleftorwhat]

it's leveright , leave er right where you found it lol

[DrSpauldingthe3rd]

The formation of a sphere of low-density soapy organic wax-like material dubbed, adipocere (grave wax), which formed a halo of organics surrounding the wood or fish flesh soon after it settled on the ocean floor. Adipocere formed and held the spherical concretion-shape during continued deposits, while mineral precipitates replaced the organics.

[clayzer11]

Its a concretion. Look it up

[mysciencenow]

boulders like this form on seashores

[Themineralmaster]

that looks like a cannon ball

[LEXI601]

Phsycally I have no Idea, we have those anomalies here too in Kershaw Co, SC. but it looks like a rope-ish mark, I believe that it was definately used by the Natives maybe as an idol? but it sure seems to have marks of use.

[howtogetwell]

I'm not trying to be funny. But quite simply, it is a rock. It is either a sedimentary or metamorphic rock such as shale, slate, or chert. Natural forces have made it round by erosion in a rolling motion, probably in a stream. The reason for the grove is that there were softer layers in the stone. These layers are eroding more rapidly than those that are harder.

[NicholasKelley111]

what you have there is called a cannonball. they are made from sandstone and usually contain fossil shells. I find these in my area in pe ell washington in the jones bluff formation. aka cannonball bluff. But these are quite common all around acient coastal regions and are always round in shape.

note: they were never shot out of cannons :)

[zhoni2004]

it may have been a griding stone

[kidsark]

Often the Indians would roll a round stone in the arena and others would shoot at it to practice shooting or maybe for games-- i cant tell if it has fractrues but maybe that was it-Maybe a game they played. also they would heat rocks for hands or place under heavy furs to keep babies warm on cold nights-nice piece-I have a small fish about two Inches long made like a arrowhead from blue flint-that also could be a toy made for a small child or for fishing-as fish followed-they would shoot at it-

[rocky3330]

i think its fred flintstones bowling ball

[ursel1965]

@rocky3330 maybe Barney's

[smellanalan]

Its either a geode with crystals or an indian replica of a planet hahadk you got me brotha

[ancbcc]

petrified t-rex testicle...haha lol  : )

[motaloca]

The layers indicate it's a sedimentary stone.  The round shape must be the result of erosion in flowing water.

[serger2010]

befor thay used steel canon bolls thay made them out of carved rock thay were liter to use on the old wooden ships

[7777dmith7777]

It looks like a drill hole stone. which is a stone that gets caught in a depression on a ledge near the high water mark on a river. (not neccesarily a current river) and the water rolls it around, sometimes for thousands of years and it actually drills a cauldren shaped hole in the ledge and the stone gets very round. untill one day it comes out in a flood or gets knocked out by another stone. Cool find !!

[sorrowaxe]

@7777dmith7777 im not sure if thats what this dude has but you helped me out i found a cave like water fall / wash out that had those hanging in it and all overr washed out are they worth the mile hike out with em?

[7777dmith7777]

@sorrowaxe If they are in nice shape and not all chipped up I would probably keep the the cool looking ones, but as far as selling them, that may be a problem. However they are hard to find because people always seem to remove them from the place they found them, or when they fall out of the holes they get re mixed into the river and smashed up.

[carpcorr]

petrified t rex testicle

[fallsgrave]

LMFAO!!!

[alabamaboy321]

probably a gamestone

[LittleJ1398]

Probally A boulder...

[Habanero1223]

Interesting cobble. The original rock is certainly of sedimentary origin. If it is a sandstone it is likely that it represents a chunk of rock that broke off of an outcrop and was rolled around in a stream of some sort. There are likely outcrops of the same material upstream of where you found this. The mold shown is not a blastoid as was posted but looks more like a pelecypod (clam) that since it consists of softer material was either eroded or dissolved out leaving the cavity shown. Don

[indianartifacts]

I think it is just a normal but 'curious' stone from a river bed, which looks like an arrow shaft smothener used by native Americans.

[MackeyGirlOwnzz]

Look for painting on it...it could be a celabrational marble.

[brandondej]

That's a large fossilized blastoid. You can't tell it's a fossil because the outer layer has weathered away.

[huston1995]

it looks like an arrow shaft smothener

[m0nkEyboi27]

dinosaur egg, crack it open t rex is inside.

[CalfCreek4x12x08]

well, whether it is just a rock or something significant, it sure is cool!

[BOHUNTER]

Geofact!

I like ya videos dont see much NC artifact hunting on here. Im in Florida. Im a knapper. If it was 2-3 inches in Diameter Id say possible net weight or a Bolo stone but as I see the rings and different densities I believe it to be just a rock and those areas that arent rasied are softer rock eroded away. Neat though.

Steve

[ResearchandRecovery]

I don't know, Tom. It looks interesting!

From my expertise in Geology(which is nil), I would guess that it looks like a sedimentary-type of rock that has been in a river bed and erosion from the river sediments have turned it into a ball shape. Sedimentary rock is known for having fossils, too.

Sorry I can't give a better guess.. I'm sure a real pro will come and guess it spot on for you!

Have a good one!

-Ian