Posted on 07/24/2019 6:33:00 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Someone plowing the field in Newton Grove had hit a large stone while working earlier and moved it over to the edge of the field, said Mary Beth Fitts, assistant archaeologist at the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology. But when the property owner stopped to look at it, he discovered it wasn’t just any stone. When he turned it over, he found a face carved into the front of it and called the Office of State Archaeology, Fitts said. But experts are unsure what exactly it is. “It’s a very unusual artifact,” Fitts said. “We haven’t seen anything like that before.” The office posted a 3D model of the sculpture on Facebook on Monday in hopes of “crowd sourcing” to find out more about it. “We’re hoping maybe someone has seen something like it,” Fitts said. The sculpture is made of sandstone and is 22.2 inches long and 15.75 inches wide, the office wrote on Facebook. “We don’t know what tool was used, but sandstone is a softer rock and more easily shaped than most common rock types in NC,” the office said. Fitts said the office doesn’t know how old the sculpture is but because it’s made of limestone which doesn’t take special tools to carve, it “could be of any age.”
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Turn it upside down and it’s a phallic carving. Common throughout history.
LOL!!! pretty much... looks Norse
I am groot.
i remember that
Found some 25 miles or so NE of Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg area.
Newton Grove is in Sampson County on the sandy coastal plain, just east of the fall line. Not many native rocks to be found just lying around there. The eyes are very round and pronounced, which is sort of peculiar.
Google “Cardiff Giant”.
America Unearthed (A TV series). A couple of guys planted some fake replica stones & then called Scott Walther, America Unearthed guy. Walther played along with them and then exposed them as frauds right there on TV
It does, it is a twofer.
At first I was going to say it was some kind of Confederate General.
And then .... I saw that post .... about the upside down orientation.
Of course!!!
So now I realize it is a post-surgery “picture” from an early gender-correctification surgery patient who got a second opening in his male-member. (What he really wanted was a second male member, but he was a victim of not knowing the language of the surgeon.)
Well, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE to you?
See what kind of further nonsense is ahead for us in the enlightened West?
Fake news of the last century.
Because it’s carved in limestone, which is a “soft” rock, human tools from any period in the last 12,000 years could have sculpted it.
I am surprised that microscopic cut marks can’t identify the tool.
It’s also not clear if someone carried the sculpture from a distance, or if those rocks are found naturally in the area.
I am inclined to think a 50-50 possibility of a hoax.
So is it limestone or sandstone?
I recognized Robert Mueller, immediately.
Fake, yes. But it made Barnum a lot of money!
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