New Members digirama Posted September 21, 2017 New Members Share Posted September 21, 2017 I found this rock next to a public road within 2 ft of roadside. Brookline, MA area. FYI it wasn't embedded in the ground, just laying on top. Originally assumed it was a stone-worked scrap or maybe damaged by a snow plow blade. Chisel marks from a stonemason in-training 100+ yrs ago? But it's kind of 'organic' looking in the patterns of the 'scratches'. The more i looked at it, the more I considered it might be a fossil. Claw scratch-marks from a prehistoric animal? Impressions in what was once mud ground? Not sure of rock type, but it's very hard rock. If granite then not likely to be a fossil, I know. Detailed photos included. Happy to be proven wrong in my notions, I just want to be sure in the offhand chance it is a fossil. Thanks in advance for your feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Looks manmade to me, someone took a chisel and a hammer to it for some reason. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 I don't think it could be a fossil of any kind. It could be glacial transported material. It looks geological in origin and glacial erratic, to me. The wider and deeper marks are not fresh, they are eroded. I could be wrong, also. comparative picture from here " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 4 minutes ago, abyssunder said: I don't think it could be a fossil of any kind. It could be glacial transported material. It looks geological in origin and glacial erratic, to me. The wider and deeper marks are not fresh, they are eroded. I could be wrong, also. This was my first thought as well, I'm caught between the two. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members digirama Posted September 23, 2017 Author New Members Share Posted September 23, 2017 thanks for the feedback! interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone2stone Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Then again gentlemen this may be a stone once buried in a garden, plow struck before someone just got fed up and dug it out. Just a guess though, but I have seen this phenomenon before on stones mistaken to be native American artifacts. Most, that have the plow gouges, normally have oxide/rust staining from the initial plow strike. It again IMHO this may be an artifact used as an anvil so to speak to hold what ever they were butchering at the time or to "remove corn from cobb. I believe it is an artifact. Stonebone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Rocks exposed in a snowmobile trail look identical to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 +1 for man made gouges, incidental not intentional. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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