Is this an Indian Artifact?

[autographcollector11]

I am hoping that you can help me identify this piece of sandstone. These were found in the Washington/Oregon public beach shoreline. From what I can tell, one of them is an abraider (a tool used to smooth the shaft of an arrow). There are two grooves on the larger piece as you can tell. The other one is hard to identify, but I would believe that it is a similar tool. Would you have an idea as to how old these are?

Can you help?

Thanks

 

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[relichunters]

It looks like Coral, but no idea. Cool find

 

[bradyboy]

Have to say its a worn out pc of coral, been tossed around and smoothed out from the tumble in the sand
Brady

 

[G.A.P.metal]

cool looking ,but dosen`t look like any indian artifact i`v ever seen.
Gary

 

[autographcollector11]

What about these? Can you help identify these? One looks to be an arrow shaft smoother......

 

[tommie4wiley]

I am not completely sure about this but I can say it is a Indian Artifact. Because this kind of stones mostly found in south parts of India and it might be from that region. Still, any more ideas ?

 

[RGINN]

No. The first photo is similar to a shaft straightener, a sort of wrench in which the wooden shaft was inserted into the hole and you held onto the handle and applied pressure to bend and straighten it, and you didn't burn your hand. The abrader pics aren't that clear, but appear to be jagged on one side of the channel, which wouldn't be if used for abrading. Maybe some kind of a fossil imprint? Did you find anything else in the area, such as reduction flakes, shattered bone, pottery sherds, charcoal lenses, etc., to indicate occupation? I'm not familiar with the prehistoric culture of your area, and if you can study up on it, it will help your searches. Great resources here on Tnet too. Cool that you are aware of types of tools used by those folks. I would have picked those rocks up too and took them home. (I am confused by that post by tommie4wiley. Do you say 'in-dee-ann' or 'in-dun'? autographcollector11 is lookin for info, so I responded on that angle.)

 

[GEEZER]

All of your items are referred to as geofacts by experienced artifact collectors. The less sensitive folks will tell you that you have recovered some excellent examples of sex stones.