Anybody any idea what this is? Big rock with manmade holes in it. Saw it in an antique shop and found one on the beach a few days later. Too heavy to bring home. Fishing related maybe?

40 comments

1. What else am I supposed to play holey rocky with, eh?

2. Looks like a fishing net weight

3. Where’s the banana?

4. Too heavy to bring home from the antique shop too? Christ , he’s never gonna sell it.

5. /r/whatisthisthing

6. It’s the world’s worst clarinet

7. They are the holy rocks of Ireland.

8. Authentic Terry Pratchett Dwarf bread

9. It could be a mancala board. Count and capture games are pretty ubiquitous. Holes have been found drilled into ancient Egyptian tombs for playing them

10. I wanted a serious answer yis pack of feckers!

11. If you get the one from the beach and the one from the shop you can play battleship

12. It’s triggers old brush head

13. Stone age whack-a-mole

14. Its a stone drainage grate. It Probably comes from an old building used to house animals.

15. It’s the head of Regirock

16. It’s the Holy Stone of Clonrichert, it was recently upgraded to a Class II relic, great find.

17. Post it again in r/whatisthisthing and you will get a reply

    I think it’s for holding flowers ? – not sure

18. That’s a Blarney Stone. Cork propaganda would have you believe there’s only one. Artificial scarcity at work.

19. It’s a banana rack

20. It’s a holy stone.

    This can be determined by the fact there are numerous holes.

21. They’re speedholes. They make the rock go faster.

22. Backsctatcher

23. If you get the one from the shop and the one from the beach you could have two of them.

24. Does the antique shop owner not know? It looks too precise to be anything ancient. Those holes were made with a machine so I reckon last 200 years max. It looks to be granite of some kind.

25. Looks like my ma’s soda bread

26. Classroom pencil holder

27. A stone age cribbage board.

28. It’s how the Ancient Irish made popsicles

29. It’s an old spaghetti maker.

30. Not sure of a rock of that size, but we dug up large rocks on our farm that had shallow round carvings with rings around them. Had a couple of guys from archeology Ireland come out and look at them. They weren’t sure the exact reason but they’ve found similar things all over here and parts of Scotland.

31. That’s a left over piece of Regirock

32. Leprechaun pencil holder, rare as a hens tooth.

33. That’s my sexrock. Don’t touch it and pm me it’s location pls 😘

34. Could it be for weaving nets?

    Pegs in different holes make different size nets?

35. Stone organiser.
    It’s where you keep your much smaller stones organised.

36. Could it be a ventilation stone for a stone building? I’ve seen red bricks with holes used for ventilation in red brick buildings.

37. A big rock with manmade holes in it

38. Leprechaun orgy gloryhole device

39. It has an auction number on it, you could literally read the book and find out.

    Also looks like an umbrella stand

40. That sir right there, is a rock with holes drilled in it