Recent acquisition

[BayRockMan]

While field work is most enjoyable, we also hunt for artifacts at estate sales in the Chesapeake Bay area. Below are pictures of a stone tool from a recent estate that was part of a lot. Other items included were fossils, arrowheads, and a mortar. But this tool is unlike any we have seen to date. Grooved on both sides, each groove with a raised ridge. Small groove is slightly convex while the larger groove is heavily concave. Scale cube is 1 cm. Overall size is 15 x 10 x 3-5cm. Any help on identification would be appreciated.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

First, just what kind of Tool do you think it is? I don't see anything that makes me think it could have been a Tool. What would they have used something like that for?

I hope you didn't spend a lot of money on it because I believe it is just a natural formation. There are a couple of creeks here in my area where you can find stones like that all over the place.

 

[monsterrack]

It's really hard to say but it could have been something used to polish axe headsnever seen one of these before. Welcome to Tnet

 

[quito]

The only MAYBE I could think of was an elaborate abrading stone for an ancient knapper.

 

[rock]

Welcome to the site.......lets see the arrowheads that was with it.

 

[redbeardrelics]

Really hard to say if it was used as a tool from photos. It looks like a naturally formed rock that had naturally formed grooves in it. The wider concave groove in the second photo looks totally natural and unmodified to me, while the thinner convex groove in the first and last photos looks like they may have worked it some to make it straighter and deeper.

 

[BayRockMan]

Here's a pic of the arrowheads. They are about 22-25mm in length.

 

[BayRockMan]

There was a local museum that brought in an expert in Native American artifacts for a day and identified this piece as a shaft straightener on one side, and the other side looks to have been used for shaping / sharpening bone or antler material. Placed it in the early Woodland period.

I probably could have sold it on the spot, but it's back the collection.

 

[NC field hunter]

There was a local museum that brought in an expert in Native American artifacts for a day and identified this piece as a shaft straightener on one side, and the other side looks to have been used for shaping / sharpening bone or antler material. Placed it in the early Woodland period. I probably could have sold it on the spot, but it's back the collection.

I love happy endings. Glad you got some info. On this piece.