Huge chunk of worked quartz

[Wandermore91]

Knife or scraper? This is from a fishing site where I could imagine it may have been used as a knife or a scraper for scales or hides. But I am not sure so I am curious what you might think. About 50% of the edges are sharpened. I believe it is almost a complete piece. Funny story, I found the largest piece a few weeks ago lying in a mudbank. I knew it was broken. A couple days ago I was in the same location and laid eyes on another piece of quartz. My instincts instantly told me that it was probably the missing piece. Brought it home and matched them up, sure enough, perfect match! This is my first time recovering two matching pieces of a broken artifact and I was thrilled about it. Crazy how all of this time later you can still locate and reunite two pieces. I’m guessing this mud bank held them close by one another long after breaking. I super glued them, as I’ve seen others do here





One edge is flaked off on an angle and the other is sharpened as is

 

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[Shorewalker]

Nice job on the matching-up and glue. I'm interested to hear what others think of this piece as I have similar pieces and can't decide if they were tools, discards or debris.