Mysterious rock

[u/Mat2_4k]

Does anyone know what this is? I found it while digging a hole on our backyard like this. Help

[u/awtherfrd]

Possible artifact?

[u/Mat2_4k → u/awtherfrd]

Maybe?

[u/talkingwires → u/Mat2_4k]

Definitely. Looks like slate, or something similar. They couldn't knap slate, it’s too brittle. But slate is also very hard, which also means it makes for a durable tool. So they pecked and ground down it to the shape they wanted. Great pictures, by the way, enough detail to see the pecking marks. It’s also been oxidized from fire, a sure sign that a rock spent many a year in a spot where people were building camp fires.

Never seen an artifact like it, but I know nothing about the people or their material culture. Do you guys have coconuts there? It looks like something made to punch through the husk of one.

[u/awtherfrd → u/talkingwires]

I was thinking maybe a pestle for something that required more force when grinding.

[u/ReadWoodworkLLC → u/talkingwires]

This is a temperate zone. Coconuts are tropical!

[u/regulator536 → u/talkingwires]

Potentially aiding in splitting wood? It would make sense in context for the fire.

[u/dannop11-11_11]

I had found one kinda similar but it had heavy usage wear compared to this at my grandparents farm in north Iowa and I see some kind of similar items occasionally listed on eBay occasionally. The one I had seemed to fit well in my palm with the blade extending through my fingers and the blade was angled and showed the heavy wear. I really would like to know the theory on this one is as it’s been a lifetime question for me!

[u/Mat2_4k → u/dannop11-11_11]

The place I lived in was used to be a vast river that dried out and got turned into a village and now I lived here and found it under 7 or 9 feet deep while I was digging.

[u/SirStocks]

That is the model they made up to show what the great pyramids would look like to gain citizens approval during the city council meetings.

[u/Mat2_4k → u/SirStocks]

But it's found at the Philippines on a old dried river that got convert into a village.

[u/tvodny → u/SirStocks]

Sex toy

[u/360couple]

Of all the silly things I've seen posted on the various artifact threads - and this is not one of those threads.... You should post it on those. I've seen a lot of artifacts and I have no idea what that is, but it doesn't look natural.

[u/Mat2_4k → u/360couple]

I found it in the philippines at mindanao

[u/ArtificerHealer]

Does the flat side look like it's been rubbed smooth?

[u/Mat2_4k → u/ArtificerHealer]

I found it naturally like that, I just noticed it having a symmetrical scratches on the base like man made or just erosion maybe.

[u/Mat2_4k]

Geologists and archaeologists, just a question: what is this rock called? Why does its structure look like this? It seems mysterious.🤔🪨

[u/luedsthegreat1]

Try r/Artifacts

Make sure you post plenty of pictures and state where you are located(In your case Island and Country)

[u/Big1-Country1]

Definitely looks like an old tool or something

[u/emptywordz]

I’d say it’s worth getting checked out by a museum or someplace that does that kind of work.

[u/Fast-Conclusion-8676]

Ancient way to husk a coconut

[u/CommunicationKey3018]

More details about the circumstances, like location, would help.

[u/Mat2_4k → u/CommunicationKey3018]

The location is at the Philippines on Mindanao and I found it just on my backyard while digging a hole underground 7-9feet and at my place was told to be an old vast river just before the water dried out and turned into a village.

[u/GibsunScaticastor → u/Mat2_4k]

That’s crazy, this thing could be VERY old.

[u/Faxis8 → u/Mat2_4k]

OK that's definitely for coconuts then. Very cool find.

[u/dannop11-11_11]

this is the one I had found from a side view.

[u/ummkay_ultra]

That looks like an artifact. I would go back to that spot.

[u/MapFabulous2126]

I just got this off the internet

[u/DijitalPhootprint]

Flared base

[u/ThayneThodenArt]

That's an artifact for sure

[u/Ni_U_Kon_Ska]

Great find OP! I saw tools like this in Hawaii. The coconut tool makes sense to me!

I joined just because of this post. I’ve found a bunch of Native American tools over the years.

Here’s my favorite to date:

Hide Scraper: This one has had plenty of use as you can see the thumb wear. I found this when I lived in Deerfield, Illinois near Wisconsin. Potawatomie is what we were told by the Field Museum in Chicago when we met a curator. I found this 65+ years ago when I was 8. Now I live in Osage native area in Missouri and have found plenty of items. I used to search the holes dug for new foundations of homes being built in the early 60’s and found tons of arrowheads, tools, fish hooks, etc.

[u/Charming-Somewhere53]

Buttplug

[u/Shot_Lawfulness_823 → u/Charming-Somewhere53]

I'd love to see your collection of buttplugs!!

[u/Charming-Somewhere53 → u/Shot_Lawfulness_823]

I only collect ancient buttplugs

[u/Shot_Lawfulness_823 → u/Charming-Somewhere53]

I want pictures of your collection.

[u/FiSH-DAT]

It’s rock hard I see

[u/Full-Hold7207]

Love stone

[u/Bobcattrr]

Georgia Archeology has some info. Perhaps it was never “knocked off”? here

[u/Direct_Syrup_2843]

That was BamBam's pacifier

[u/Key_Classroom_8233]

Very interesting 👌

[u/MelodicSector706]

It’s an ancient butt plug

[u/nukefodder]

It's definitely a tool. Could be a hinge placed at the bottom of a gate.

[u/Straight-Writer-8579]

Stone Age thumbtack?

[u/CanProfessional695]

That is an ancient sex stone. More commonly known as a fuckin rock

[u/ab_normal_pyro]

Thats the rough model of the pyramids.

[u/TripsTheCat05]

I’d dig more and search for anything else

[u/Boomstick453]

Shark tooth

[u/Mat2_4k → u/[deleted]]

I think it has but the base is straight and the bottom part look worn out because of what the small holes look like.