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  1. #1
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    Dec 2006
    East Coast
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    Anyone know what this is?

    I found this in PA along the Susquehanna River. It is pecked and the pecking is in a circle. Anyone want to guess?
    ~Z~
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  2. #2

    Feb 2005
    5,527
    11 times
    Cache Hunting

    Re: Anyone know what this is?

    Could it represent the sun?
    Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. Acts 13:41

  3. #3

    Mar 2007
    595

    Re: Anyone know what this is?

    Looks like a flint knapping rock. Maybe they worked one rock against the other at the center of the "sun" and the lines are the rubbing areas to sharpen the points, or shape the points I suppose.

    Kind of a native work bench.

    Well, that's my idea.

  4. #4

    Mar 2007
    West "by god" Virginia
    Fishers CZ5 and 1280X
    1,170

    Re: Anyone know what this is?

    Hey Z, When knapping a stone point, an abrader(sharpening stone) is used to grind rough surfaces on the point so that precise chips can be removed. It may be a kind of abrader, or it could be used to sharpen items such as deer antler tines, that were used to pressure flake the finished edge of the stone point. Deer antler and split bone were also used as awls to punch holes in rawhide and skins. They would have to be sharpened often, maybe on a stone like yours.

    Nice find!..............HH

 

 

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