Stay-at-Home Day Twenty-Nine, Thursday 23 April 2020: Stone Twenty-Nine

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Stone Twenty-Seven.

Stone Twenty-Six.

Stone Twenty-Five.

Stone Twenty-Four.

Stone Twenty-Nine is another quartzite from Birdlings Flat. It finished the polishing process on 19 April, being in the same batch of stones as Stone Twenty-Seven. 

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Other side of Stone Twenty-Nine.

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This is an example of a stone that has not polished perfectly. Along one edge it is rough, with some small holes. If I wanted to smooth those holes away, using the tumbling process, I would also smooth away a lot of the rest of the stone. The stone would shrink in size quite a bit, and we would lose a lot of the patterns we can see in it today.

View of top of Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Stone Twenty-Nine.

Small holes in part of Stone Twenty-Nine.

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The next Post in this Series is Stay-at-Home Day Thirty, Friday 24 April 2020: Stone Thirty. The first Post is Stay-at-Home Day One, Thursday 26 March 2020: Stone One. 

Author: tumblestoneblog

Retired Academic, male, living in the New Zealand countryside near Whanganui with his wife as well as Jasper the dog, Fluffy the cat, Dancer and Penny, the horses, and a shed half-full of stones. Email john.tumblestone@gmail.com. View all posts by tumblestoneblog