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You are absolutely right - I do this too in my "other passion". But here I am not interested in 50 year old garbage. I would be more interested to get access to the stones under that waste.

It was quite common in the older days to use closed mines, pints and other "holes in the terrain" for waste disposal. Especially when these places were near to the settlements.

The main mine was under the earth. Not accessible today any more. Only kept for the bats.

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This was a main pit of the mine.

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Now you know why the literature says: the old...

A look to the ancient open quarry:

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The inscription on the plate says:

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This whetstone quarry was in operation until 1930. The here mined whetstones were...

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What size do you prefer? :D

To round off this thread I would like to add some older literature about the stones. The Hiftenberg stones are documented in a lot of ancient german literature of the 19th and also the 18th century....

You are absolutely right Neil.
There are a lot of places in the world with Ordovician rocks. The same with upper devonian age places, there are thousands of deposits. But not any (known) place that...

Well sorry Neil,

the thread might indeed be a little bit misunderstanding from the wording. This is not a quiz and please be sure that I don’t want to play any games with the experts.

I really...

Really no stones like this one out there? There must be some, they have been traded for the last 300 years!

The stones were mined in 2 different qualities a yellow one and a blue one, whereas the...

Good guess Neil, thanks for the answer. But the stone is not a turkey stone!
These kind of stones were very well know in the middle ages. They were found in a lot of old middle age centres, also in...

It is a very hard stone compared to the Escher/Thuringian waterwhetstones. More like Novaculite. Can be used with water or oil. However not a japanese nor a CF/LI and not an ark.

Which stone is this:

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Any idea anyone? Any other stones like this out there?