Lost and Found
Being interested in Archaeology, there was a 40 year period of my life that I spent a lot of time digging holes in the ground. In most cases I have been able to identify the items I dug up, however, I have not been able to identify the two stones pictured above.
Each of these stones is a gray-green color, and is what we commonly refer to as soapstone. Each stone is exactly nine inches square, 1-1/2 inch thick and weighs eleven pounds. Each stone has twelve holes drilled all the way through, but not tapered. The three holes at the top are 3/16 inch in diameter, the next three are 1/4 inch. The first row of holes at the bottom are 5/16 and the next three are 3/8 in.
The fact that the holes in these stones are not tapered would rule out the probability of being prehistoric.
There was no other material found with these stones, which would indicate that they were not part of a trash dump. They were found about 40 feet from an abandoned railroad line, eight feet apart and only ten inches below the surface.
Would you like to hazard a guess as to what these stones were designed, and made for?
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