Odd tool...

[coalfire]

I found the one pictured along the Susquehanna near Sunbury, PA. The stone was all polished at one time. The bottom is well polished yet. To me it looks sort of like a wood plane. It is just over 1/2" thick.The place I marked as place for handle is thinner and the peice is a great hand tool. I guess it could have been something like a bark splitter. I would use it to press against a tree trunk and run it along the tree up or down to flay the bark. Maybe birch? Or too help seperate skin from meat?

I have seen another type similar and totally polished to this day. It is the drawing. The center is ground out in a ring with a bit of the center still there like a small mound on both sides. Probably to keep it a bit thicker to help it not break. The edge at both tips were chipped slightly to cut I assume. The drawing is about the same thickness and size.

So what do you all think it could be?
~Z~

 

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[bean man]

Hey Z, sure looks like it could have been some kind of cutting tool. Curious to what that material is? I imagine they made a vast array of cutting tools. I found a bunch of strange rocks in this one spot last year. Here's one of them.

bm