That's not an atlatl stone. The groove & top end holes were for cordage of plant fiber or animal cordage for a loop around the neck hanging at the chest. In a pouch was carried a small stone for grinding tobacco leaf into snuff snorted with a "Y" shaped drilled stone or ceramic. I've seen the whole kits before. The person, usually men, would grind the tobacco leaf with the mortar & pestle hanging around the neck & snort it out of the stone that you have.
I'm gonna lean in w/you on your opinion! Most of my family were tobacco users/workers when I was youngun. I remember me & my sister being amazed @ one"old man( older than my grandparents) that used similar device to scrub into "snuff". "Snuff" was used many different ways/for different reasons. "Snuff" was "polite" when you was in house,(as opposed to "out-side" where you could "spit" anywhere) so, a person would "take a pinch" or snort a pinch to quell a hankering for tobacco. Outside, a person would "cut, bite, pull, pack a chaw" of leaf tobacco. I have "chawed" for 67 years. It is addictive, but will continue past the "WOKE Pandemic".
You look at that in todays term oh someone drilled some holes and ground groves in a stone, Take your head back a few thousand years did it how, with what, Amazing amount of time patience and craftsmanship// awesome find!
Their lives were full of things to do, NONE of which were nonsense, unlike ours. They were masters of survival, so WE could BE, and look how we squandered that gift.
its a bow string tool. To tighten the string on bows . the type hair they braided together was course and could cut the fingers so to avoid cuts they used a stone .and it takes quite some time ware the rock down like that .
LOL Ancient bowstrings were NOT made from hair, they were made from laminate sinew. GOD the ignorance. Yucca was also used, at no period in time did American Indians use HAIR to make bowstring. Also, you can't spell properly, try fixing that before you try thinking.
Its a bowstring shaper..deer sinew needed to be shaved and worked a bit to make it uniform . The end holes are to strip the sinew ..the bowl held the strippings the top hole was for a leather loop for holding it tightly and to keep it handy..
@@jasonx-ray3921: it's hard to have 2 holes in nothing..the only way to get 2 holes lined up w each other is if that something is shaped like bowl ..the round of it fits in the palm..the bowl shape keeps the strippings away from the work..so your hand is not coated in slippery oils while stripping it down..as to your question the strippings were used for every day needs , lashing for fish spears, arrow fletchings, primitive zip ties..the reason they wouldn't fight at night is the sinew bow strings would swell and get soft at night from humidity..
It has been several years ago that they decided to build for a Walmart in our town. When they started they found that there had been a Cherokee Indian village there. Of course they had some protests about being able to continue but it did no good. They were able to continue their build and put in our local Walmart. It bothered us because my wife is part Cherokee.
Why let it bother you so much? The people who put it there do not care one whit about it. Someday the land my family has lived on for 150 years will be owned by someone else. I have lots of great memories here and probably a lot of artifacts here. I don't care what happens to it, it is not mine for perpetuity. Nobody actually "OWNS" the land and what is on or in it. God owns it all, you cannot take it with you.
That's a better statement than what fools will tell you in "f.b. arrowhead land" They'd tell the guy it's concretion and offer him 75$ for it. A wonderful bunch of people.
Were I to speculate, perhaps what you have is some sort of awl for cordage, sinew, hide, or reed grass. The holes and palm cup,thus suggests. also an addlelat (sp?) for casting spears or stones, may also be a possibility. Archeology on U Tube. What fun!
Definitely a boat stone and used on a atlatl for a counter weight for thrusting spears! By the way, most arrowheads that you’re finding are actually spear points! Arrowheads are very small and are way more modern than spear points! Be careful where you hunt and where you find them and be aware that just picking them up is a Felony in most states. If you claim to have found them on your private property you could even have the government declare your property as an archaeological landmark and confiscate it from you! 🤫
@@randolphmann3322 To be honest, what most of us find are exhausted knives, that were never used as spears. When you do find a point, it's very rare to find an arrowhead compared to the lengthy Archaic time period. I have permission to be at this site. I just bring the home owner a bottle of Tequila each visit. That's what he requested and that's what I do to gain access.
@@bottling.hobo. very aware, and my belief is there’s nothing wrong with hunting artifacts, especially surface finds and on private property. But the government and certain tribes do not see it that way and there is certain laws that give them the ability to really screw you over in various ways. My best friend and deceased now, was surface hunting on a shoreline of a local lake, and was arrested, his property confiscated and never returned. His boat, his truck and all his possessions, was fined $20,000, convicted of a felony and lost his right to own a firearm, to vote, to hunt and just for picking up arrowheads that was just laying there. Happy hunting, be careful out there!
Whenever I see holes, I start thinking adornment of some kind. Maybe some kind cap to a breast plate or other object. Looking at the bowl side, you can see a single grove at each hole to the rim. Maybe caused by sinew banding holding the breastplate/object in place and tied off at the top of the stone with the top hole used to attach to another object. i find the top hole and stone work above it very interesting.
Great find! Boat stone for sure. Could this material be baked clay? Looking at the color and the striation's on the inside it sure seems like it could be.
I can't believe I have wasted about 15 minutes reading these insane comments that of viewers yanking this "My Heavy Shovel's" post, you should be ashamed.
@@sawmill9392 looking at the mental maturity of today's internet, I'm not one bit surprised. The internet, just might be the downfall of mankind. Thanks for watching and subscribing. I'll post more discoveries soon.
It would help to know the area it was found. I know you won’t share this but it would help complete a story. If you have a university nearby with an archaeology department, go talk to someone. Many of the answers on here sound okay but…. They also sound uncertain.
Thank you. It is a very special piece. I see that they are even more rare in Georgia, where I found this. It took me two days for the shock to wear off and finally realize how special this is.
@@bottling.hobo. Stellar find brother !! Been doing this since 1969 and recently found my first full, "intact clovis spear point". Found many over the decades but not in perfect condition. Best wishes and stay safe out there.
@@deandeann1541 Yes indeed it is, i was so shocked !! Found many broken ones over the yrs both fluted bottom pieces and mid to top breaks but never a full piece. 4 1/2 inches long of Onondaga chert (lower "Niagara Falls"gorge). Love to post some pix for you but i wouldn't know how to do that on youtube. This is the ONLY social media i use. Very best wishes to you and yours and stay safe out there. Have a MASSIVE collection starting in 1969 (ALL legal finds of course and HAVE returned MANY to the local indigenous people iv'e met over the yrs. Makes me feel great, watching their faces when i mention these "most likely" made by their ancestors.
@@shanghunter7697 I found an unbroken bone basket weaving tool made by the Red Paint People here in Maine - verified by a state archaeologist - he said he'd seen many but always broken, he also said that there must have been a midden it had washed out of near where I found it. The tool was a flat bone needle, pointed on one end with a hole drilled in the other end, flat but as long and as wide as a middle finger. The cross section was convex, it was very symmetrical and very carefully made. The tool was very specific to that culture, it was about 4,000 years old.
Wow definitely find of a lifetime, excellent condition boat stone for sure, there is plenty more stuff around where you found it and where you described where it was found the stuff should be in good shape
No kidding. This was not an instant result. I imagine they had to keep resharpening the tool. The amount of pecking and polishing had to be labouring. I want to try and recreate one!
With all those holes and grooves, I would think whoever made it didn't want it to get away from them. I would guess it was tied very securely to bone or wood atlatle. Being in the creek wall like that it was destined to be a heartbreaker someday; glad you rescued it. What an astounding find!
The truth is we have no idea about MOST things, you're at least able to admit you don't know. The TRUTH is, we don't have a clue what those people used ANYTHING for beyond the obvious. And there is a chance that is incorrect as well. Well done!
I disagree with Tracyroake even though the comment is honorable. Artifacts that are left in the ground do no good for the people that lost it because being in the ground, the history of those are lost forever to humanity. It is better to display and honor history, heritage, and ways of life so that the world doesn’t forget. Burial grounds are a different story though, the burial grounds should be undisturbed but marked.
it is not any of those things. it wasn't 'made'. through millions, billions of years, it has just evolved into what it looks like. accidental. no design or designer or original purposeful creation. 10 followed by 32 zeros less complicated than a human being. if the latter can get here w/o a creator, certainly this stupid little thing can do so.
You clearly have no idea of your place on this earth. You are going to be visited by forces that you will never know about and can do things to your life. You have been warned ~ O' Wis Te'
Several people use the word(s) boatstone or boat stone. Nobody defines it. I'm guessing it has something to do with a boat. Or maybe a stone. Shhheeesh!!!
The name is just a description of a stone with a vague boat shape to it, it has nothing to do with the use of the object - in fact stone objects intended for completely different uses can be called boat stones. So the name is not very helpful at all.
@@deandeann1541 Used to do a little flounder gigging until they cut the limit down so low as to make it not worthwhile. This year they closed it completely. So, not any more.
I had the item examined by a professional archeologist and it is called a Keel Bottom Boatstone.
Killer boat stone! Absolutely amazing condition. Glad you saved it before it was broken. Congrats on the find 👏
Absolutely beautiful find. Could be a net weight, an Atlatl weight, a fishing line weight. Is it enstatite (fired soap stone?).
@@AgathaR-v5y it could be fired soap Stone but I'm not 100% sure. Someone also mentioned that it may be Steatite. I'm no geologist though.
Looks like it’s part of a sling that holds the projectile.
It looks like a sling shot cup
That’s a chin strap from caveman football
Killer boatstone!!! What an incredible find! Congrats and thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I probably reached the peak of arrowhead hunting for my area. Time to find a new hobby hahaha
That’s a better than usual boat stone . More detail put into that than a lot of boat stones . And it’s not broke! Congratulations !
what's a boat stone?
It’s a flux capacitor
😂
It's a Tooit. Round ones are best. "One day I'll get around Tooit" 😂
John Bigbootay, you shut your mouth and fly this thing!
Sorry, it's a TransMogrifier. The Super Heterodyne type
@@DrippyTheRaindrop Don't ya need a potion for that?
That's not an atlatl stone. The groove & top end holes were for cordage of plant fiber or animal cordage for a loop around the neck hanging at the chest. In a pouch was carried a small stone for grinding tobacco leaf into snuff snorted with a "Y" shaped drilled stone or ceramic. I've seen the whole kits before. The person, usually men, would grind the tobacco leaf with the mortar & pestle hanging around the neck & snort it out of the stone that you have.
You r a wealth of knowledge my friend , thanks you for passing on the light 🙏✊👊💕
I'm gonna lean in w/you on your opinion! Most of my family were tobacco users/workers when I was youngun. I remember me & my sister being amazed @ one"old man( older than my grandparents) that used similar device to scrub into "snuff". "Snuff" was used many different ways/for different reasons. "Snuff" was "polite" when you was in house,(as opposed to "out-side" where you could "spit" anywhere) so, a person would "take a pinch" or snort a pinch to quell a hankering for tobacco. Outside, a person would "cut, bite, pull, pack a chaw" of leaf tobacco. I have "chawed" for 67 years. It is addictive, but will continue past the "WOKE Pandemic".
I concur Dr.
You don’t know that to be true. Smh…
Native snuff pestal for grinding tobacco seems reasonable to me
You look at that in todays term oh someone drilled some holes and ground groves in a stone, Take your head back a few thousand years did it how, with what, Amazing amount of time patience and craftsmanship// awesome find!
Their lives were full of things to do, NONE of which were nonsense, unlike ours. They were masters of survival, so WE could BE, and look how we squandered that gift.
its a bow string tool. To tighten the string on bows . the type hair they braided together was course and could cut the fingers so to avoid cuts they used a stone .and it takes quite some time ware the rock down like that .
LOL Ancient bowstrings were NOT made from hair, they were made from laminate sinew. GOD the ignorance. Yucca was also used, at no period in time did American Indians use HAIR to make bowstring. Also, you can't spell properly, try fixing that before you try thinking.
That is wild. Extremely interesting find.
Its a bowstring shaper..deer sinew needed to be shaved and worked a bit to make it uniform . The end holes are to strip the sinew ..the bowl held the strippings the top hole was for a leather loop for holding it tightly and to keep it handy..
Why would you need to hold the strippings if they were just refuse?
@@jasonx-ray3921: it's hard to have 2 holes in nothing..the only way to get 2 holes lined up w each other is if that something is shaped like bowl ..the round of it fits in the palm..the bowl shape keeps the strippings away from the work..so your hand is not coated in slippery oils while stripping it down..as to your question the strippings were used for every day needs , lashing for fish spears, arrow fletchings, primitive zip ties..the reason they wouldn't fight at night is the sinew bow strings would swell and get soft at night from humidity..
@@HughGard-rc7cc Interesting information. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Your explanation sounds reasonable. 😊
@@jasonx-ray3921 More modern nonsense, from a modern dummy. Those people wasted NOTHING, not one single thing.
there's likely more to be found in that area. I'd say that's a piece of something
...no way...that's a piece of nothing...ha...
@@timmothy58 share the wisdom lol
It has been several years ago that they decided to build for a Walmart in our town. When they started they found that there had been a Cherokee Indian village there. Of course they had some protests about being able to continue but it did no good. They were able to continue their build and put in our local Walmart. It bothered us because my wife is part Cherokee.
The two sons of the founder of Walmart hunt and collect arrowheads. Most of the time,they buy land where two rivers come together.Mother load.
Every Walmart is built on an Indigenous village
Aren't we all around here? E TN. Actually grandma was Melungeon.
@@JoeandAngie Middle Eastern tennessee here.
Why let it bother you so much? The people who put it there do not care one whit about it. Someday the land my family has lived on for 150 years will be owned by someone else. I have lots of great memories here and probably a lot of artifacts here. I don't care what happens to it, it is not mine for perpetuity. Nobody actually "OWNS" the land and what is on or in it. God owns it all, you cannot take it with you.
It might be worth putting some strings through the holes, to see what it looks like. The hollow "boat" might be a place to hide a knot.
It’s the key fob to Fred Flinstone’s car.
That's a better statement than what fools will tell you in "f.b. arrowhead land" They'd tell the guy it's concretion and offer him 75$ for it. A wonderful bunch of people.
that my friend is a snuff grinding bowl. would have had a little grinding stone with it. roped & tasseled most likely
Were I to speculate, perhaps what you have is some sort of awl for cordage, sinew, hide, or reed grass. The holes and palm cup,thus suggests. also an addlelat (sp?) for casting spears or stones, may also be a possibility. Archeology on U Tube. What fun!
I'm from Florida so I got no idea, but dang. It's incredibly cool. I couldn't guess how many man hours it took to shape.
I think it could be a boat Stone excellent find
Dude, that is so cool! Congrats 🔥
Thanks man! I up in Michigan right now, rock hounding and enjoying the recreational aspect as well! They are giving it away in Michigan. Lol
Definitely a boat stone and used on a atlatl for a counter weight for thrusting spears! By the way, most arrowheads that you’re finding are actually spear points! Arrowheads are very small and are way more modern than spear points! Be careful where you hunt and where you find them and be aware that just picking them up is a Felony in most states. If you claim to have found them on your private property you could even have the government declare your property as an archaeological landmark and confiscate it from you! 🤫
@@randolphmann3322 To be honest, what most of us find are exhausted knives, that were never used as spears. When you do find a point, it's very rare to find an arrowhead compared to the lengthy Archaic time period.
I have permission to be at this site. I just bring the home owner a bottle of Tequila each visit. That's what he requested and that's what I do to gain access.
@@bottling.hobo. very aware, and my belief is there’s nothing wrong with hunting artifacts, especially surface finds and on private property. But the government and certain tribes do not see it that way and there is certain laws that give them the ability to really screw you over in various ways. My best friend and deceased now, was surface hunting on a shoreline of a local lake, and was arrested, his property confiscated and never returned. His boat, his truck and all his possessions, was fined $20,000, convicted of a felony and lost his right to own a firearm, to vote, to hunt and just for picking up arrowheads that was just laying there. Happy hunting, be careful out there!
Thats messed up man. I had no idea it was a crime. @@randolphmann3322
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@@randolphmann3322 Exactly, one def. has to know their laws and they DO differ from state to state (certain circumstances) as i'm sure you know.
It's a doohickey that goes with a whatchamacallit, I'd recognize it anywhere!
Yea, it attaches to the thingamajiggy and makes the whangdanger fly around!
Whenever I see holes, I start thinking adornment of some kind. Maybe some kind cap to a breast plate or other object. Looking at the bowl side, you can see a single grove at each hole to the rim. Maybe caused by sinew banding holding the breastplate/object in place and tied off at the top of the stone with the top hole used to attach to another object. i find the top hole and stone work above it very interesting.
IPhone docking port for sure.
Great find! Boat stone for sure. Could this material be baked clay? Looking at the color and the striation's on the inside it sure seems like it could be.
@@Ephesians617 definitely a hard Stone of some type.
Incredible find. Wow. Looks like the 'crest' is broken off. Maybe it was ornamental?
I can't believe I have wasted about 15 minutes reading these insane comments that of viewers yanking this "My Heavy Shovel's" post, you should be ashamed.
@@sawmill9392 looking at the mental maturity of today's internet, I'm not one bit surprised. The internet, just might be the downfall of mankind. Thanks for watching and subscribing. I'll post more discoveries soon.
100% a boatstone (atlatl weight)
That's my chin strap. Thank you.
It would help to know the area it was found. I know you won’t share this but it would help complete a story. If you have a university nearby with an archaeology department, go talk to someone. Many of the answers on here sound okay but…. They also sound uncertain.
It's called a boat stone. Incredible find. No way to know 100% what is was used for
Transporting fire short distance?
Pretty sure it’s an atlatl ( spear-thrower ) predates the bow …
Yours is the only correct answer! Congrats
It is a Cap to a bag top.
Good evening my good sir I wish you could see my once in a lifetime find. An actual quartz crystal hatchet head
Wow! Is it fully transparent?
@@deandeann1541 no more milky white
Where can we see it
I changed my profile picture so you can see it I also have a few pictures on my channel
@@stevestevenson6389I'll check it out now. We get a lot of crystal quartz here in GA
Prehistoric grease separator.... That was easy..💪😎
Dang it. Why didnt I think of that. Haha. I was leaning towards a catch pan for oil changes.
Sir, that’s a Beautiful piece, hang on to it if you can!! Those are hard to come by and may I say, she’s beautiful!👍🏻🇺🇸
Thank you. It is a very special piece. I see that they are even more rare in Georgia, where I found this. It took me two days for the shock to wear off and finally realize how special this is.
@@bottling.hobo. Stellar find brother !! Been doing this since 1969 and recently found my first full, "intact clovis spear point". Found many over the decades but not in perfect condition. Best wishes and stay safe out there.
@@shanghunter7697 12,000 years and still unbroken. An amazing find. Can you post a picture or is that against youtube rules?
@@deandeann1541 Yes indeed it is, i was so shocked !! Found many broken ones over the yrs both fluted bottom pieces and mid to top breaks but never a full piece. 4 1/2 inches long of Onondaga chert (lower "Niagara Falls"gorge). Love to post some pix for you but i wouldn't know how to do that on youtube. This is the ONLY social media i use. Very best wishes to you and yours and stay safe out there. Have a MASSIVE collection starting in 1969 (ALL legal finds of course and HAVE returned MANY to the local indigenous people iv'e met over the yrs. Makes me feel great, watching their faces when i mention these "most likely" made by their ancestors.
@@shanghunter7697 I found an unbroken bone basket weaving tool made by the Red Paint People here in Maine - verified by a state archaeologist - he said he'd seen many but always broken, he also said that there must have been a midden it had washed out of near where I found it.
The tool was a flat bone needle, pointed on one end with a hole drilled in the other end, flat but as long and as wide as a middle finger. The cross section was convex, it was very symmetrical and very carefully made. The tool was very specific to that culture, it was about 4,000 years old.
A boat stone and named because it looks like a miniature canoe. An amulet, charm, or talisman.
It's a weight for an atlatl.
@@DarthJermz It is shaped wrong - not like a bannerstone at all.
Wow definitely find of a lifetime, excellent condition boat stone for sure, there is plenty more stuff around where you found it and where you described where it was found the stuff should be in good shape
The amount of scraping that took…
No kidding. This was not an instant result. I imagine they had to keep resharpening the tool. The amount of pecking and polishing had to be labouring. I want to try and recreate one!
The Government does not own any thing . What the government takes is by force , wether it is land , money or personal property .
With all those holes and grooves, I would think whoever made it didn't want it to get away from them. I would guess it was tied very securely to bone or wood atlatle. Being in the creek wall like that it was destined to be a heartbreaker someday; glad you rescued it. What an astounding find!
Thank you. It's going to be hard to beat this one. I'd hate to think of this as a heart breaker. You're right, I'm glad I found it when I did.
I say this is correct and you can see how they mounted it on a stick.
However it may well be a component os the atlai system.
@@frankmacleod2565 it's private property, so........GFY
@@bottling.hobo.😅
def a primordial string bikini ~go find the other one
Definitely an injun rock.
Well it looks like a horse bell so they could find a animal
I think it might be for twisting cord in to rope. Farfetched I know, but . . . . . ?
The truth is we have no idea about MOST things, you're at least able to admit you don't know. The TRUTH is, we don't have a clue what those people used ANYTHING for beyond the obvious. And there is a chance that is incorrect as well. Well done!
That's definitely a native american boat stone, a very nice piece.
I found one very similar to that one, and I believe it is a boat stone.
A boat stone you say.....t.y. for your professional input !!
Where was this found? Glacier till is so plentiful for such a fragile piece to exist so it sat and that means!!! 🇺🇸♾️😎
I found this in Northwest GA in a creek.
I think it's a hammer.
The atlatl . It’s the rock that mounts on the end of a stick to help sling a spear. It speeds it up and gives you leverage over the spear throw.
Not enough weight..
it's for snuff
@@HughGard-rc7cc it’s about leverage and not weight
@@MurryRothbeard thats ridiculous.
@@MurryRothbeard Oh my..........
Is it made out of wood ?
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@@williamdukeofnormandy1403 stone. Possibly Steatite. It is a hardstone though.
I disagree with Tracyroake even though the comment is honorable. Artifacts that are left in the ground do no good for the people that lost it because being in the ground, the history of those are lost forever to humanity. It is better to display and honor history, heritage, and ways of life so that the world doesn’t forget. Burial grounds are a different story though, the burial grounds should be undisturbed but marked.
Looks like some sort of slingshot cup. Maybe using a bow and the cup instead of an arrow.
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Definitely Boatstone something
Maybe a cup for a sling to hold rocks to use as a weapon or to hunt ??? Nice discovery . Great job👍
@@michaeldombrowski3942 that thought crossed my mind and I mentioned that to someone else. It would show scars from use, which is not evident.
@@bottling.hobo. Maybe it was lost while it was still new.
it is not any of those things. it wasn't 'made'. through millions, billions of years, it has just evolved into what it looks like. accidental. no design or designer or original purposeful creation. 10 followed by 32 zeros less complicated than a human being. if the latter can get here w/o a creator, certainly this stupid little thing can do so.
You found the cup of a sling. The holder of the rock that is thrown as a projectile .
“I don’t have any idea what this is.” Yet is confident enough to declare it ‘the find of 10 lifetimes’.
@@CarlosBenjamin exactly. How often are these found? I am confident to say these are not found in my area on a regular so.....
I made that just to confuse all yall.
You clearly have no idea of your place on this earth. You are going to be visited by forces that you will never know about and can do things to your life. You have been warned ~ O' Wis Te'
it's an early shot glass, if filled too much, liquer is dribbled out end holes so customer only gets the shot they paid for and no extra
It looks like it might have been a top to a small bowl or paint pot that may have been a tie down lid. ? Just a thought.
Maybe a sap collector strapped to a pine tree the Groove could Be used to shape the Heated Sap .. Ok thats all I got
Pretty dang cool what ever it is ! Looks like there was an other half of it, maybe some kind of gorget
I'll have to see if there is another half to it or possibly a stone sat perfectly in there.
I'd say it was a cup that could be worn with a leather strap.
Could it be a mold for forming clay sling stones??
Paint bowl mix oil an charcoal
Several people use the word(s) boatstone or boat stone. Nobody defines it. I'm guessing it has something to do with a boat. Or maybe a stone. Shhheeesh!!!
The name is just a description of a stone with a vague boat shape to it, it has nothing to do with the use of the object - in fact stone objects intended for completely different uses can be called boat stones. So the name is not very helpful at all.
Cup forthcoming rockß sling
whatching from the U.P. of michigan
just a guess. perhaps a cup for a sling.
I think it's a pooper scooper for a litter box..?🐈👍
Wow, new one on me. Thanks, congratulations
Thanks, dry kool. ✌🏻👊🏼
That might be the roof end cap off our patio gazebo from walmart . Did you see any more of it anywhere ?
Lol Nah, I didnt see anymore of it but I'll keep my eyes open.
Possibly that could be part of an overhead Sling, similar to what David killed Goliath with.
Nope, the shape is all wrong. Sling pouches were always (and still are) made of leather. Stone is a non-starter, too much weight would slow the swing.
Google native american boat stone
A baby bottle? It will sit on the groove. The little holes pour liquid
That's a great idea - it could actually work for that.
Creo que es una honda o onda ,para cazar,es de la prehistoria, saludos.
Looks like a little pulley to me?
Honestly it looks like a pully. Insert a round wooden piece and it would work as a line pully 😍
For atlatl 👍🏽
Good find
You do know😆😆😆🙄
Civilization did exist before
Modern man.....wake-Up.
@@richardturner7664 who are commenting to? If it's me, no shit.
Appears maybe petrified shell, no telling what the purpose of it was, gorget, who knows. Nice find.
Gorget, for what, a Lilliputian? Come on, stop with that nonsense.
DO NOT PUT IT BACK !!
it is a pocket of a sling
Chastity belt cup.
Your internet name was one I used to use several years ago - are you a fisherman by any chance?
@@deandeann1541
Used to do a little flounder gigging until they cut the limit down so low as to make it not worthwhile. This year they closed it completely. So, not any more.
It’s a dandy artifact.
It's an ancient COVID mask. Congratulations on your find, now go and sanitize your hands.😂
Thanks for the tip
Nice!!! Great recovery!!!
Really cool find
It looks like a beek
Ancient jewelry
Wow dude ,, amazing.
Could it be a fish net weight ? Looks a little ornate to be just a weight.
I dont think it's a fishing weight. I found a few of those and they are hastily made and rudimentary in design.
Eye patch?
Pawn Stars
Boat stone its made from clay not stone (salt was important to the indians cause they were outside and sweated alot.
I've held a lot of clay pottery in my lifetime. I can assure you that this is Stone.