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Is this an ancient sacrificial stone?

Kimmo Huosionmaa The picture above advances a strangely shaped stone in southern Finland near capital city Helsinki. Its strange shape makes me think is that an old sacrificial stone from the pagan age of Finland. That will not so far away from truth than people normally think. Finnish landscape is moraine, and there is full of quite small stones. That stone what is in this picture is so-called black granite, what is very strong mineral. And stones doesn't face much erosion in this kind of places. An erosion is a very common thing, what destroys relics, but if the stone will crush by trees or ice, that erosive material must get its way inside that stone. And if there are no scars in stone, the ice can't break it. That's why this stone might be very old sacrificial stone because it looks like handmade an object. Of course, it might be a stone from the old building site, what workers have throw to the forest, but that will not explain that kind of shape of that stran...