These little stone spheroids are thought to be old millstones - not the big round affairs with the square hole in the middle, but smaller stones. I'm not sure what they would have milled, but I found them downstream of an old mill site when I was a young lad. They came from a gravel bed in Duck Creek, near Smyrna, DE, and I found them when I was about 9 or 10 years old while poking around in the creek for crayfish. They are probably archeologically significant (in context), alas, in my youth I failed to understand the importance of such things.
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