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Indian Rock Found In Privy - 4/26/2004 1:24:42 PM    crozet86 Posts: 145 Joined: 2/17/2004 From: Charlottesville va. / Buena Vista Va. Status: offline Hi, I found this rock about 3' deep in the fill layer of a 1800's privy. Attachment (1) _____________________________ CENTRAL VIRGINIA DIGGER EDDIE Post #: 1

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 4/26/2004 7:03:45 PM    bigkitty53   Posts: 286 Joined: 3/28/2004 From: Bermuda Status: offline Eddie, Please educate me.How did you know that's an indian rock?(tool?)It's smoothness? To me,it look's like a piece of petrified...well,what you'd expect to find in a privey!Obviously we don't get anything like that over here! KAT (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 2

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 4/29/2004 7:12:10 PM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline It does have some resemblance to a coprolite, I suppose. A coprolite is petrified scat or feces. These are "ichnofossils" or "trace fossils" since the source is usually not identifiable with any certainty. Coprolites are not rare fossils. Dinosaur coprolites from Montana are interesting when cut and polished. Alligator coprolites are common in some places in Florida where the groundwater is loaded with silica (SiO2). This is a coprolite which was produced by a little meat-eater. It is turned to stone. I think of it as cat scat. (Cat owners may have a deja vu reaction here.) I can't say for sure which meat-eater or even how old it is, but it is Pleistocene or earlier. There have been bobcat-size felids in Florida for a very long time. ----------------Harry Pristis Attachment (1) _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 3

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 5/4/2004 6:56:30 AM    leebran20 Posts: 84 Joined: 2/18/2004 From: Honolulu, Hawaii Status: offline Looks like a type of pestle to me. 1800s when, were the rest of the privy finds from? Just curious. Brandon (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 4

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 5/28/2004 11:09:14 PM    Maine woods Digger 2   Posts: 41 Joined: 4/11/2004 Status: offline well Im afride that looks like POOP to me lol, im not 100% sure on what it is what that would be my guess lol (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 5

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 5/29/2004 9:02:38 AM    Rrey199   Posts: 22 Joined: 5/24/2004 Status: offline Color me in awe. I would tossed that aside without a thought. I'm glad I didn't have to say what I thought it was. Other were nice enough to say it for me. I wouldn't make much of an archeologist. Yesterday's poop or ten million year old poop. It's all poop to me. (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 6

RE: Indian Rock Found In Privy - 5/29/2004 10:42:04 AM    Maine woods Digger 2   Posts: 41 Joined: 4/11/2004 Status: offline LOL i would have to agree Rrey, i would also toss that aside too as soon as i found it (in reply to crozet86) Post #: 7

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