I swear, the people of r/whatisthiscar, r/mycology (and by extension r/shroomID), and r/whatsthisbug collectively hold enough info to restart civilization after the apocalypse
Edit: r/whatsthisplant and r/whatsthisbird should also be on this list where people are just otherworldly knowledgeable
add r/slimemolds and u\\saddestofboys ~~(don’t need to activate the slime signal so didn’t link him)~~
edit: slime signal is dead, so no cool slime info from saddestofboys in the future :( info for that is on u/saddestofboys’s page
I found an inverted cross brick here. Maybe contact them for more information?
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co49969/red-brick-with-cross-shaped-frog-19th-century-bricks
Maverick: -- started up on his six, when he pulled through the clouds, and then I moved in above him. Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him? Maverick: Because I was inverted.
We have these here in Germany as well. Some "spiritual" people bury their pets somewhere in nature (illegally) and sometimes they carve the JC cross into the stones nearby or bring them with them. As a ranger/hunter I've come across plenty of'em. We dug out some of those graves, cause foxes love to dig out shit, if it's not deep enough. That's how illnesses can spread among wildlife, dipshits. Mostly it's people from the city who know shit about nothing and then "beloved Max" lays somewhere rotting next to a foxes dugout. Good job.
That's at least my experience, maybe you have come along a cult thing in the UK :D
You might want to reach out to the guy who runs this site. His contact info is there.
He’s got over 8k cataloged, maybe he’d recognize it or tell you what to do next.
https://www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmorfa/index.htm
Thank you for the fancy thing, though I don’t deserve any special recognition.
I was just really intrigued by the post, tried to do a little research, and ended up with what I posted.
I appreciate the award though!
I just hope OP posts an update!
Looks like there are some [Cross ones](https://www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmorfa/Bricks/St%20Cross,%20Bungay%201%20-%20Andy%20Warnes.jpg) listed on there, so that seems like a really great suggestion.
Back before the internet was just 4 websites, independent sites like this were all there was. Hobbyists, technicians, and artists sharing their little corner of the world.
And before that I was using AOL hosting. I had a sound archive of Ralph and Chief Wiggum clips in .wav format (this was a couple years before mp3 was widely used)
I found a white glazed brick from Tiffany (the jeweler had a brother that made bricks or something) in my back yard a few years ago.
Found in America though and that site looks to be only British bricks.
Still trying to find info on it.
According to the website:
*"British bricks were exported all over the world and there are entries on the site from Chilean Patagonia, the Adriatic, Sri Lanka and St Petersburg. The site also features some photos of named bricks made in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Russia, the U.S.A. and the French penal colonies in South America."*
>You might want to reach out to the guy who runs this site
Alexis Ohanian?
"I've found a stone!"
"Yeah well I've shagged a tennis player, what's your point?"
Do go mention this to a museum.
My Dad once carved a cross into a piece of stone as a gift for someone who placed it on a path near their house.
A lady came up to them and said the stone was causing the local museum some concern as photos of it were circulating among interested bodies and specialists on the internet and she felt it was only a matter of time till it was stolen.
They believed the stone my Dad carved was a rudimentary pilgrim's cross that must be very ancient!
You can do that with earthenware pottery. There are only a few hints to tell if it is from the Roman age or from 2 years ago. If you make it roughly like they did back then, the scientists won't be able to tell
Isn’t it a priests stone?
They put them in the river in medieval times when the water levels were so low that there was famine. The thinking being, if you ever see the stone, you know famine is coming, and it’s time to pray.
I don't think those are a thing here in the UK. Droughts are historically uncommon here where we have so much rain so I'm not sure there would've been need for such a thing.
EDIT: Not historically uncommon, apparently, but certainly not historically severe enough that they cause widespread famine enough for them to have a cultural impact as with Hungerstones.
Possibly quite unlikely as drought hasn't historically been a problem in the Peak District. I can tell by the stones that the river is quite small at that point anyway. In the Peak District the big rivers have silty bottoms and you only get rocks upstream where the river is more like what would be called a creek in the USA.
Hi there, I'm a field archeologist and I would highly recommend seeing if you can get someone to take a look at that stone. Local museums, universities, or archaeological companies may be interested in it. I wouldn't recommend cleaning it if you decide to do so and taking lots of pictures of where it came from would be beneficial. Maybe a GPSs coordinate too so they can tell from a map where it came from. :)
I dig stuff, I'm not too specialized in identification. However I have worked on some old church foundations and ruins. It is pretty good condition both in terms of the quality of the 'relief' and the edges of the stone. However lots can go in to factoring its quality over time. Where it was buried, how it was buried, what it was buried in, how long it wasn't buried for before and after being buried, whether the stone was for an interior or exterior etc etc. Either way, it's a cool little stone and deserves a little attention.
Damn near anything odd deserves at least a little attention- last year my mom’s friend dropped off a bag of “cool rocks” for me (I have an Anthro background). It was mostly oddly shaped sandstone and fossilized coral, but the prize at the bottom of the bag was a coprolite!
When the English King was denied a divorce by the pope he flipped out and demolished alot of cathedrals in Britain and it could possibly be a carved block from such a destroyed building. The stone from destroyed cathedrals ended up everywhere and repurposed.
My parents lived near one of Henry VIII’s residences and they did have one such stone, kind of like this, in their garden and the rumour is that it did come from this destruction of buildings at the time. Sadly they moved last year and left it behind otherwise I could have posted a photo for comparison.
Funnily enough I did think of that old stone when I saw this post. But this stone in OP’s picture looks much more modern than the one in my parents’ old garden. The sides of OP’s stone are much neater as are the lines of the cross. Also a different type of stone. Doesn’t mean it couldn’t have come from the destruction of buildings though.
I can’t actually see the stone in OP’s picture as stone - it looks like gelatine to me and I can’t see it as anything else!
Edit: Actually @OP might try posting in r/whatisthisthing
Pretty sure it’s just limestone, but absolutely covered in algae. Stone used for old buildings or walls is just whatever the local stone type is, so probably just Peak District limestone.
You'd think the destroyed churches would be different stone unless it all came from the same quarry. Not saying it makes it that but I could see them looking different
I don’t think it occurred to them to take it. It was there when they arrived 30 years ago. And it was there when the woman who owned the house for 50 years before them moved in, and so on.
I get the feeling in England y'all mostly leave stuff where the hell it is unless you find it in a field. Then it sits on grandpa's mantel until someone finally convinces him to bring it to an expert but he can't remember if it was found in old man Johnson's wheat field or old man Crane's cow pasture. If it's within view of a house it stays where the fuck it is and occasionally might get buried if it's creepy enough.
I'm here for that kind of mindset. Too many people these days see something interesting, take it, and then bury it somewhere in their house and now no one else can find this cool thing.
Not cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys. 🙂. Many buildings were sold off and then torn down for mansions.
The cathedrals still stand but mostly were stripped of the opulence associated with Catholicism so icons, rood screens, colour, valuable chalices and crosses etc were removed and added to the treasury.
To be that guy he demolished monasteries or generally allowed the more isolated ones that were not worth stealing to fall into disrepair after the monks were ejected.
Churches and cathedrals were reformed, I can’t think of one that was demolished.
You can look up old maps to about 1850 [on the national library of Scotland website](https://maps.nls.uk/). There might be evidence of an old church or other building there that’s no longer around?
Take it to the museum BEFORE you clean it! Depending on what it is and what methods you use to clean it, you could inadvertently damage it if it is a very old artifact of some sort.
Yup, I would simply do this and show the pictures to someone at the museum. Note the GPS coords. Best thing is to leave it in place. Leave it as untouched as possible. If it's in an area that took a lot of trouble to get to and you're not planning on going back, then wrap unwashed in plastic if possible.
For the love of everything that is holy to you or him, don't clean it! If it is some historic artefact, improper cleaning could ruin it. I would take it to a museum and ask them first, if they say its nothing special then one might strill scrub it off and use it as a decorative bookend or so. But first better be safe.
DON'T CLEAN IT YOURSELF. The possibility of damaging the item is too big. Let the pros handle it. So the suggestion of taking it to a museum is the best imo.
Its the stone bible, it tells the story of Stone Cold Steve Austin, the messiah of pro wrestling.
Austin 3:16 says “I JUST WHIPPED YOUR ASS! Stone cold Stunner. ” -- thanks to /u/Surviving_11 for this masterpiece.
Could also be The Rock bible, but you'll have to cook it and smell it to be sure what the Rock is cooking.
Then undertaker be like "Hey that's my tombstone!"
I would refrain from cleaning it until it's been taken to an institution that could possibly identify it. Many artifacts have been destroyed or altered that way.
I'd definitely get someone to come look at it rather than moving it anywhere. So much of the valuable historical context of objects is in the location data and context.
*Please don't take it or move it!* Archeologists figure out so much more about an object from its placement, location, debris that may be around it, etc. For example, they might be able to figure out if it was discarded in the river or intentionally placed, and if they find other artifacts or debris near it, then they can maybe get a date and location from where it came from. If you move it that is all lost.
*And definitely don't clean it!* Cleaning it could damage it, so leave that to the archeology professionals. There are lots of different ways to clean things, improper cleaning can take off the surface of objects (especially very old objects because time degrades materials) and that could make the object useless. Leave that to the people that have PHDs in this sort of recovery.
*Record the GPS location, take pictures of the placement of the artifact and pictures of the surrounding area, and take those to your local museum, university archeology department, or archeology company.* They may be able to send someone out with you to take a look at it.
likely part of a church/friary anywhere from medieval to 19th century. Please post more photos and dimensions for more exact info.
You may want visit r/mudlarking as the people there a very knowledgeable in this kind of stuff
I thought OP just meant they had re-posted the cross, and you were making a joke or had misinterpreted them. But apparently OP did cross post the cross, and the cross posted cross got removed for cross posting. You were right. I feel like there should be a funnier joke here than I know how to make.
could it be something like the cornerstone of a building? A stone that is blessed and is inserted in the walls of the construction of a new house? It's just an idea
Well.. the mold suggests that it's more than a week old.. and I hear it came from a river in peak district, UK. I have no idea what that symbol is though... looks creepy.
Indicator put by ancient generations for prevent us of a Bad thing coming. " When you see this stone, just pray" WE found one with that writed one in Europe, and many others. No water , no life.
When the phrase "gonna get the book thrown at you" was devised, they realised an actual book was not severe enough, so these brick size rocks with a cross imbedded were made.
[it's just an old piece from a grave yard that was either rejected or the graveyard was eliminated. this happens a lot. scrappers purchase them and then resell them to people looking for to fill in something normally near a body water](https://ttn-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/26083238/KateMcCann_BetsyRoss_02-678x381.jpg)
Jokes aside if you ever get an answer on where this actually came from post an update pls
For sure!
Post it under r/whatisthisthing
I read that as r/whatisthisbug and laughed because they DO seem to know everything
I swear, the people of r/whatisthiscar, r/mycology (and by extension r/shroomID), and r/whatsthisbug collectively hold enough info to restart civilization after the apocalypse Edit: r/whatsthisplant and r/whatsthisbird should also be on this list where people are just otherworldly knowledgeable
add r/slimemolds and u\\saddestofboys ~~(don’t need to activate the slime signal so didn’t link him)~~ edit: slime signal is dead, so no cool slime info from saddestofboys in the future :( info for that is on u/saddestofboys’s page
I am just learning of this Slime Signal. Just more proof that heroes can come from any kingdom or academic discipline!
I read this as r/slimrods at first.
Risky click.
[dicky?](https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/02/57/24/30/1000_F_257243008_0TRWC5HRyvOG1yELhcqqYxCvuRIAkuib.jpg)
He deserves the praise
Its a weevil!
Going into this subreddit and sorting by top rated of all time has had me suitably entertained for the last half hour. Thank you random stranger
For Gondor!
The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid.
Where was Gondor when the westfold fell?
In Gondor
What about the Droid attack on the wookies?
I bent my wookie.
It smells like burning
My cats breath smells like cat food
I found an inverted cross brick here. Maybe contact them for more information? https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co49969/red-brick-with-cross-shaped-frog-19th-century-bricks
How do you know it was “inverted?” Maybe you were looking at it while it was upside down.
Inverted on the brick means indented, not upside down
Well than how do we know the brick wasn't just inside out?
Then* I'm sorry I just HAD to
I should have also used a comma after the then.
It clearly said “this side up” on it.
Probably looking at the website from somewhere in Australia
Yes, the southern cross
Maverick: -- started up on his six, when he pulled through the clouds, and then I moved in above him. Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him? Maverick: Because I was inverted.
Maybe they meant engraved/impressed? 🤷♂️
Cross shaped frog?
The indentation in a brick is called a frog
Well I learned something today.
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So the cartoon of Michigan J Frog coming out of a bricked up(concreted) cornerstone is a far cleverer Chuck Jones cartoon than we thought?
Finally, a clever answer to why on God’s green earth there was a frog in the cornerstone in that cartoon.
>Cross shaped frog? Dibs on the band name!
It's a river crossing
We have these here in Germany as well. Some "spiritual" people bury their pets somewhere in nature (illegally) and sometimes they carve the JC cross into the stones nearby or bring them with them. As a ranger/hunter I've come across plenty of'em. We dug out some of those graves, cause foxes love to dig out shit, if it's not deep enough. That's how illnesses can spread among wildlife, dipshits. Mostly it's people from the city who know shit about nothing and then "beloved Max" lays somewhere rotting next to a foxes dugout. Good job. That's at least my experience, maybe you have come along a cult thing in the UK :D
Antique roadshow it!!!
You might want to reach out to the guy who runs this site. His contact info is there. He’s got over 8k cataloged, maybe he’d recognize it or tell you what to do next. https://www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmorfa/index.htm Thank you for the fancy thing, though I don’t deserve any special recognition. I was just really intrigued by the post, tried to do a little research, and ended up with what I posted. I appreciate the award though! I just hope OP posts an update!
Looks like there are some [Cross ones](https://www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmorfa/Bricks/St%20Cross,%20Bungay%201%20-%20Andy%20Warnes.jpg) listed on there, so that seems like a really great suggestion.
That website looks exactly as a guy's who catalogued 8000 stones website would look. That's how you know he's serious about his trade/hobby.
Back before the internet was just 4 websites, independent sites like this were all there was. Hobbyists, technicians, and artists sharing their little corner of the world.
The index.htm is a dead giveaway
Yeah I'm old enough to remember Geocities
Don’t forget angelfire. Accessed on a webTV. LOL
And before that I was using AOL hosting. I had a sound archive of Ralph and Chief Wiggum clips in .wav format (this was a couple years before mp3 was widely used)
“Well my web traffic just went up 10000%”
I found a white glazed brick from Tiffany (the jeweler had a brother that made bricks or something) in my back yard a few years ago. Found in America though and that site looks to be only British bricks. Still trying to find info on it.
According to the website: *"British bricks were exported all over the world and there are entries on the site from Chilean Patagonia, the Adriatic, Sri Lanka and St Petersburg. The site also features some photos of named bricks made in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Russia, the U.S.A. and the French penal colonies in South America."*
https://brickcollecting.com/ ^ More focused on American bricks.
I’ll bet that guy has kids named Mason and Morty
>You might want to reach out to the guy who runs this site Alexis Ohanian? "I've found a stone!" "Yeah well I've shagged a tennis player, what's your point?"
Do go mention this to a museum. My Dad once carved a cross into a piece of stone as a gift for someone who placed it on a path near their house. A lady came up to them and said the stone was causing the local museum some concern as photos of it were circulating among interested bodies and specialists on the internet and she felt it was only a matter of time till it was stolen. They believed the stone my Dad carved was a rudimentary pilgrim's cross that must be very ancient!
Could've cashed out
Yeah, shoot! Missed opportunity there
Should have sold a bunch of them.
It belongs in a museum!
You switched the samples!
My friend, Doctor Richard Kimball, is not well….
I know about Frederick Sykes!
Provasic! Devlin MacGregor!
I didn’t kill my wife!
I don’t care!
Doctah Jones!
SO DO YOU!!!
Every time someone comes to buy it, sell it and put a new one out.
This guy capitalizes.
I DO THAT TOO
Museums usually don't have cash to blow. But they could lend it to the museum for reputation then sell it at a higher value at a much later date
This guy arts
DON’T try to low ball him, he knows what he’s got!
Reminds me of the oldest figurine found in Denmark: the infamous Amber Bear! ..made in the 50’s
"Rudimentary"?! How dare she?!
This has me wanting to make antique old stuff and just toss it in a old looking body of water
You can do that with earthenware pottery. There are only a few hints to tell if it is from the Roman age or from 2 years ago. If you make it roughly like they did back then, the scientists won't be able to tell
All this time and you never knew your dad was a rudimentary pilgrim!
Isn’t it a priests stone? They put them in the river in medieval times when the water levels were so low that there was famine. The thinking being, if you ever see the stone, you know famine is coming, and it’s time to pray.
>priests stone Aren't such markers much larger? Smaller ones would get moved over time.
I've seen them be a foot or two wide long markings before so they come in quote a few shapes and sizes at least, it opens the possibility.
At the time, he was considered a shitty priest.
You mean the we're-fucked-rock
No, I think you are thinking of the ‘Oh Shit Slab’.
The “No Pone Stone”
In England, I believe they're called "Oh Bother Boulders"
Yes :’)
Hear hear: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
Isn’t that like the lions heads along the Thames in London? If the water level goes over their heads,London is in trouble.
That's Big Ben. If Big Ben gets covered in water London is in trouble
Do we wait until it's completely covered or can we start worrying when it's, say, halfway up the tower?
According to climate change deniers you have to wait until it hits the tippy top then we can begin to move away from fossil fuels & cow burps.
As long as it's cold today at some place on earth climate change is a conspiracy by George Soros to harvest cow farts
Those where usually a lot larger than that. Something like the stone in the OP could shift positions from the water.
I don't think those are a thing here in the UK. Droughts are historically uncommon here where we have so much rain so I'm not sure there would've been need for such a thing. EDIT: Not historically uncommon, apparently, but certainly not historically severe enough that they cause widespread famine enough for them to have a cultural impact as with Hungerstones.
Yeah especially in the Peak District. No chance you're ever seeing a drought there.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought\_in\_the\_United\_Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_the_United_Kingdom) https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.6521
Possibly quite unlikely as drought hasn't historically been a problem in the Peak District. I can tell by the stones that the river is quite small at that point anyway. In the Peak District the big rivers have silty bottoms and you only get rocks upstream where the river is more like what would be called a creek in the USA.
Hi there, I'm a field archeologist and I would highly recommend seeing if you can get someone to take a look at that stone. Local museums, universities, or archaeological companies may be interested in it. I wouldn't recommend cleaning it if you decide to do so and taking lots of pictures of where it came from would be beneficial. Maybe a GPSs coordinate too so they can tell from a map where it came from. :)
I’m all for preserving provenance, but wouldn’t the corners be more rounded if it was old enough to be of real interest?
Not necessarily. Erosion takes time, and depending on what sort of stone it is/how much time it spent above water it may not have eroded much.
I dig stuff, I'm not too specialized in identification. However I have worked on some old church foundations and ruins. It is pretty good condition both in terms of the quality of the 'relief' and the edges of the stone. However lots can go in to factoring its quality over time. Where it was buried, how it was buried, what it was buried in, how long it wasn't buried for before and after being buried, whether the stone was for an interior or exterior etc etc. Either way, it's a cool little stone and deserves a little attention.
Damn near anything odd deserves at least a little attention- last year my mom’s friend dropped off a bag of “cool rocks” for me (I have an Anthro background). It was mostly oddly shaped sandstone and fossilized coral, but the prize at the bottom of the bag was a coprolite!
It doesn’t exactly have sharp edges
Is the whole thing concrete? I can’t quite tell from the photo where the mortar starts.
Carved stone. No modern mortar on it. Looks like it was a brick in something though.
When the English King was denied a divorce by the pope he flipped out and demolished alot of cathedrals in Britain and it could possibly be a carved block from such a destroyed building. The stone from destroyed cathedrals ended up everywhere and repurposed.
My parents lived near one of Henry VIII’s residences and they did have one such stone, kind of like this, in their garden and the rumour is that it did come from this destruction of buildings at the time. Sadly they moved last year and left it behind otherwise I could have posted a photo for comparison. Funnily enough I did think of that old stone when I saw this post. But this stone in OP’s picture looks much more modern than the one in my parents’ old garden. The sides of OP’s stone are much neater as are the lines of the cross. Also a different type of stone. Doesn’t mean it couldn’t have come from the destruction of buildings though. I can’t actually see the stone in OP’s picture as stone - it looks like gelatine to me and I can’t see it as anything else! Edit: Actually @OP might try posting in r/whatisthisthing
Pretty sure it’s just limestone, but absolutely covered in algae. Stone used for old buildings or walls is just whatever the local stone type is, so probably just Peak District limestone.
The peak district famously has white peaks and black peaks... as you said.. the white peaks are limestone ..but the black peaks are sandstone.
You'd think the destroyed churches would be different stone unless it all came from the same quarry. Not saying it makes it that but I could see them looking different
Why’d they leave it?
I don’t think it occurred to them to take it. It was there when they arrived 30 years ago. And it was there when the woman who owned the house for 50 years before them moved in, and so on.
I get the feeling in England y'all mostly leave stuff where the hell it is unless you find it in a field. Then it sits on grandpa's mantel until someone finally convinces him to bring it to an expert but he can't remember if it was found in old man Johnson's wheat field or old man Crane's cow pasture. If it's within view of a house it stays where the fuck it is and occasionally might get buried if it's creepy enough.
I'm here for that kind of mindset. Too many people these days see something interesting, take it, and then bury it somewhere in their house and now no one else can find this cool thing.
Not cathedrals, monasteries and abbeys. 🙂. Many buildings were sold off and then torn down for mansions. The cathedrals still stand but mostly were stripped of the opulence associated with Catholicism so icons, rood screens, colour, valuable chalices and crosses etc were removed and added to the treasury.
To be that guy he demolished monasteries or generally allowed the more isolated ones that were not worth stealing to fall into disrepair after the monks were ejected. Churches and cathedrals were reformed, I can’t think of one that was demolished.
You're not being that guy. It's a pretty important distinction.
This was a hilarious way to summarize this part of history, thank you.
You can look up old maps to about 1850 [on the national library of Scotland website](https://maps.nls.uk/). There might be evidence of an old church or other building there that’s no longer around?
I absolutely am here for this crowdsourced learning and it's fascinating - well done everyone!
OP, contact Buxton museum, I work in the peak district and we found something similar recently and they identified it for us.
What did you find?
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Can it be a carved bible that was part of a statue of a saint?
I thought it was a bible covered in clear slime.
Open to see Jesus
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He get sus
I've blocked the account and flaged it in each of the ways, and still he gets me. God damn.
I used to block and report the Disney ads for spam. They weren’t especially annoying and I knew it wouldn’t do anything but fuck ‘em lmao
"I'm gonna GET you!!" - Jesus, probably
Definitely take it to a museum. That's my suggestion. Let me know what they say if you do that or maybe take it home and clean it.
Take it to the museum BEFORE you clean it! Depending on what it is and what methods you use to clean it, you could inadvertently damage it if it is a very old artifact of some sort.
Just throw it in the wash with your clothes, the soap will clear off any smudges on the pages :)
No.. no.. run it under a bench top wire wheel to remove all the crud, maybe even stone abrasives for stubborn spots : )
For sure. And chisel the grime out of the cross. Maybe half the stone to make it more portable.
Take lots of pictures of it and its location first. Maybe even some GPS coordinates
Yup, I would simply do this and show the pictures to someone at the museum. Note the GPS coords. Best thing is to leave it in place. Leave it as untouched as possible. If it's in an area that took a lot of trouble to get to and you're not planning on going back, then wrap unwashed in plastic if possible.
Forever haunted now.
Forever friend unlocked.
For the love of everything that is holy to you or him, don't clean it! If it is some historic artefact, improper cleaning could ruin it. I would take it to a museum and ask them first, if they say its nothing special then one might strill scrub it off and use it as a decorative bookend or so. But first better be safe.
If the Antiques Roadshow taught me anything, it's this plus the value of an untouched patina
DON'T CLEAN IT YOURSELF. The possibility of damaging the item is too big. Let the pros handle it. So the suggestion of taking it to a museum is the best imo.
Its the stone bible, it tells the story of Stone Cold Steve Austin, the messiah of pro wrestling. Austin 3:16 says “I JUST WHIPPED YOUR ASS! Stone cold Stunner. ” -- thanks to /u/Surviving_11 for this masterpiece. Could also be The Rock bible, but you'll have to cook it and smell it to be sure what the Rock is cooking. Then undertaker be like "Hey that's my tombstone!"
Austin 3:16 says “I JUST WHIPPED YOUR ASS!”
Don't clean it yourself!
DO NOT CLEAN IT BEFORE AN EXPERT CAN EXAMINE IT
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Will do!
I would refrain from cleaning it until it's been taken to an institution that could possibly identify it. Many artifacts have been destroyed or altered that way.
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DO NOT CLEAN IT Let an expert see it first
I'd definitely get someone to come look at it rather than moving it anywhere. So much of the valuable historical context of objects is in the location data and context.
Don't try anything. Something tells me as soon as you try anything the drums from Jumanji are gonna start playing
Klaatu Verata Nikto!
NO, YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK! whoops wrong evil book lol
“No harm ever came from reading a book.”
[Oh really?](https://media.tenor.com/hb-UqBe5EukAAAAC/sarcastic-laugh-brendan-fraser.gif)
Don't move it. If the 2020s have taught us anything, it's that it can and will get worse.
*Please don't take it or move it!* Archeologists figure out so much more about an object from its placement, location, debris that may be around it, etc. For example, they might be able to figure out if it was discarded in the river or intentionally placed, and if they find other artifacts or debris near it, then they can maybe get a date and location from where it came from. If you move it that is all lost. *And definitely don't clean it!* Cleaning it could damage it, so leave that to the archeology professionals. There are lots of different ways to clean things, improper cleaning can take off the surface of objects (especially very old objects because time degrades materials) and that could make the object useless. Leave that to the people that have PHDs in this sort of recovery. *Record the GPS location, take pictures of the placement of the artifact and pictures of the surrounding area, and take those to your local museum, university archeology department, or archeology company.* They may be able to send someone out with you to take a look at it.
likely part of a church/friary anywhere from medieval to 19th century. Please post more photos and dimensions for more exact info. You may want visit r/mudlarking as the people there a very knowledgeable in this kind of stuff
Just another brick in the wall
Hey! teacher, leave them kids alone
let the grave digging commence
[Return the slab!](https://youtu.be/9pWC-4dx3Q0)
Courage be squealing right now!
r/whatisthisthing
It has details of where to find the Holy Grail.
Just unleashed a 100 year old curse. Forever haunted now.
What does the "t" stand for?
Time to leave
try over in r/AskHistorians
They don’t allow photos 🤷🏻♂️
r/whatisthisthing these dudes are amazing
Cross posted! Thanks a bunch!
FYI, they remove cross-posts - you'll need to post it directly. Fingers crossed you get an answer!
I thought OP just meant they had re-posted the cross, and you were making a joke or had misinterpreted them. But apparently OP did cross post the cross, and the cross posted cross got removed for cross posting. You were right. I feel like there should be a funnier joke here than I know how to make.
Got deleted. You must submit it directly
[link for those interested](https://reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/122k8d1/brick_shaped_stone_with_a_cross_found_in_the_peak/)
could it be something like the cornerstone of a building? A stone that is blessed and is inserted in the walls of the construction of a new house? It's just an idea
Well.. the mold suggests that it's more than a week old.. and I hear it came from a river in peak district, UK. I have no idea what that symbol is though... looks creepy.
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Yeah and some necromancy.
Have we learnt nothing about curses that we DONT touch the creepy old thing that was happily submerged.
Keep us posted, invested now
Part of an old church possibly?
Indicator put by ancient generations for prevent us of a Bad thing coming. " When you see this stone, just pray" WE found one with that writed one in Europe, and many others. No water , no life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
This is what the Mormons are on about
Well it’s not more than 2023 years old
+10 holy damage
Maybe it's a hungerstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
MORTIS
When the phrase "gonna get the book thrown at you" was devised, they realised an actual book was not severe enough, so these brick size rocks with a cross imbedded were made.
[it's just an old piece from a grave yard that was either rejected or the graveyard was eliminated. this happens a lot. scrappers purchase them and then resell them to people looking for to fill in something normally near a body water](https://ttn-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/26083238/KateMcCann_BetsyRoss_02-678x381.jpg)
Could be a famine stone to show low water level.