Mystery Items

[Barasingha]

Not sure what either of these items are, if anything.  Square item is about 1" and looks like stone.  Longer item about 1 1/4" and looks fossilized. Both from Miocene area.  Thanks for any help.

[Peace river rat]

# 2 looks like bone IMO Number one looks like a possible artifact, again my opinion only.

[abyssunder]

The first one could be a borehole of a bivalve in hard substrate like rock (tumbled by water). Ichnofossil.

[Peace river rat]

1 minute ago, abyssunder said:

The first one could be a bore hole of a bivalve in hard substrate like rock (tumbled by water). Ichnofossil.

My pal calls thing like them "net weights" You are right, the hole looks to perfect to be an artifact, machine made drill bits were not yet around.

[Ash]

I found a heap of similar rocks with the hole through it in Oklahoma.. Possible bore holes, neat!

 

@Jesuslover340 check this post out

[Yvie]

The one with the hole we call "Hag" or "Odin" stones over here,they were used as weights for making cloth and also as a marriage symbol in Orkney.Orkney is now believed to be where civilization in the U.K. began and spread south.Dinosaur tracks are up there too!Bore hole.

[Jesuslover340]

3 hours ago, Ash said:

I found a heap of similar rocks with the hole through it in Oklahoma.. Possible bore holes, neat!

 

@Jesuslover340 check this post out

We found a LOT of those...insomuch we thought they had no significance and started leaving them

[Plax]

general location information would help. I see a lot of folks are from "United States" or even something more nebulous. If we don't know where you're from or at least some idea of your geology it makes it difficult to determine your fossils identity. Your square rock with a round hole for instance could very well be a native relic if found while walking across a sandy field to your fossils site. If you collected it in the lag deposit with the bone of Miocene age it would be a mollusk? bored and worn rock.