A very unusual blade

[CMD]

Lol, well I guess my pictures are not doing it justice. It's really difficult to get non chert pieces across to people on forums sometimes. The area I am studying has been hunted pretty steadily since the 1830's and really short on obvious points but rich in lots of other stuff because people just don't see them. Would you like to see the tiny little peck marks that were almost polished out? That, that I see as the blade was precisely ground out hence the sharp angle on the thin side. The sides are rounded gracefully and evenly on both planes... Just because I haven't been on here before, doesn't mean I'm new. I have been studying the lythics in my area for 6 years.

Nothing wrong with being mistaken. The gracefully rounded sides you're pointing out are the result of natural weathering over time. Nothing wrong with your photos. They establish that the form we see was arrived at naturally, and not through pecking and shaping by man. I can see a native picking the rock up as a potential piece of banded slate for the creation of something. But, as it stands now, it's a weathered cobble of banded slate, and not an artifact. Of course you are free to believe as you wish, but I'm afraid no amount of insistence on your part will convince us otherwise. If found on a camp, I can visualize it being transported to camp for future use. But that's about as far as we could go. If it was intended to be used, that has not yet happened. It's an unaltered cobble of banded slate.
I'm sure you are familiar with your local/regional lithics. But, you're simply mistaken in thinking this rock arrived at it's present shape by being worked and ground by man. Not the end of the world to be mistaken. The odds that we are all mistaken, and you are correct, are slim to none here. Most of us have enough experience to recognize a rock unaltered by human hands when we see one. Hence the opinions rendered. And hence the reason the thread was moved from the Native American artifacts category. It is not an artifact. It's a rock.

[CMD]

Thread has been moved to the appropriate category, "Rocks Mistakenly Believed to be Artifacts."

[sailorjoe]

I agree with Hoss, CMD and Sneaky as to the banded slate cobble.

[gregszybala]

Sheesh

[sneakygroundbuzzard]

hoss, i am in total agreement on it being a rock
but you know as well as i do that some folks think that every thing they pick up is an artifact and neither you nor i or anyone one here in the know
will ever be able to change their minds on it

now in the other pic they posted,the bottom one definetley looks to be altered by man
cant tell about the one above it though
would need better pics of that one

[Hoss]

That piece of slate is a rock! It could have been a projectile if someone picked it up and chucked it. But instead it is a specimen because you brought it home. Not an artifact in my honest opinion!

[Igotideas]

Here are a couple of pieces of recent chert.

[Igotideas]

Lol, well I guess my pictures are not doing it justice. It's really difficult to get non chert pieces across to people on forums sometimes. The area I am studying has been hunted pretty steadily since the 1830's and really short on obvious points but rich in lots of other stuff because people just don't see them. Would you like to see the tiny little peck marks that were almost polished out? That, that I see as the blade was precisely ground out hence the sharp angle on the thin side. The sides are rounded gracefully and evenly on both planes... Just because I haven't been on here before, doesn't mean I'm new. I have been studying the lythics in my area for 6 years.

[CMD]

A cobble of banded slate. Pretty, but not an artifact.

[sneakygroundbuzzard]

that looks like an unaltered by man rock to me

[Igotideas]

Most people won't appreciate this little charmer but, I think it is adorable. It is a blue banded slate hand blade. I have felt ground slate before and it can be wicked sharp when fresh. Any guesses on a culture for this?