Orthoceras Fossil Kuber Stone Box | Hand-Carved Fossil Box

A lidded box carved from genuine orthoceras fossil stone, traditionally sold as a Kuber stone box — used for storing money, jewellery or small valuables.

What an orthoceras actually is

This is not a crystal at all. Orthoceras were cephalopods — relatives of the modern squid and nautilus — that lived in straight, cone-shaped shells and swam the oceans of the Ordovician and Silurian periods, roughly 400 to 480 million years ago. The pale elongated cones you can see across the surface are those chambered shells in cross-section, and the regular divisions along them are the buoyancy chambers, the same as a nautilus uses today.

Almost all the material on the market comes from black limestone beds in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, where these animals died in such numbers that the rock is dense with them. The slabs are cut and polished so the cross-sections show.

The tradition

• Traditionally used as a Kuber stone box — Kuber being the treasurer of the gods in Hindu tradition, which is where the name and the money association come from
• Traditionally kept as a grounding piece in a room
• Traditionally associated with the root chakra in crystal practice
• Commonly kept in a safe, a locker or a puja space

How to Use / Where to Place

• Store money, jewellery or important items inside
• Keep it inside a safe or locker
• A meditation or prayer space
• A desk, a home or an office

Product Details

• Material: Natural orthoceras fossil in limestone
• Design: Square box with fitted lid
• Size: 10 cm × 10 cm
• Weight: Approx. 600 grams
• Chakra Association: Root (traditional)
• Net Quantity: 1 stone box

Care Instructions — read this one

The matrix is limestone, which is soft and reacts to acid. Keep it away from vinegar, citrus and acidic cleaning products — they will etch the polish permanently. Clean with a soft dry cloth, never a wet one, and keep it out of prolonged direct sun.

Packaging & Authenticity

Delivered in secure protective packaging with a S.P.A.C.E. process card. Variations in colour, texture, pattern and weight are natural characteristics of genuine fossil — signs of authenticity, not defects.

What this is, and what it isn't

These are genuine fossil cephalopods in polished limestone. Fossils and crystals have a long place in tradition and in ritual practice, and that is the spirit in which we sell them. There is no peer-reviewed evidence that any stone or fossil grounds or anchors energy, calms the mind, protects valuables or a space, supports emotional balance, or affects a chakra. Nothing here is medical or financial advice.