What do y’all think

[tomsneck]

someone I know found this on our little island. I’ve seen similar rocks but not w so many rub marks. Any thoughts

 

[EccentricInTexas]

May have been for making arrows with.

 

[PaleIO]

Nice find! I also think it is a arrow shaft straightener/abrader tool

 

[welsbury]

I agree. Does stone feel abrasive? Odd that one groove doesn't go all the way across stone,it stops short at that short groove

 

[tomsneck]

I’m thinking abrader but for what? Don’t know about the feel as I haven’t gotten my hands on it only pics. If you look close the grove travels all the way. Stone must drop off on that end. Another guy I know thinks they were for sharpening bone?! Not sure.

 

[Tdog]

Abrader IMO...

 

[Robot]

Without..Modern GPS Position..This is How Oak Island Depositors...Marked Their Sites!

 

[ToddsPoint]

I made "artifacts" like that when flintknapping triangle arrowpoints. After thinning a biface, you need to pressure flake the whole edge. Dragging the edge back and forth on the stone does the trick of dulling the edge/platforms. After chipping a couple of hundred arrowheads, your stone looks like the OP artifact. I think I have one here somewhere and will post it if I can locate it. Gary

 

[Charl]

There is a class of stone artifact, found in New England, and which my flintknapping friends believe was used in the flintknapping process, and in the fashion described above by ToddsPoint. This class of artifact is mis-named sinew stones, mis-named because it was assumed they were used in preparing strands of sinew. But, according to my friends who knapp, sinew stones are the abrading stones used in knapping, and they usually display hammering marks at one end, as well as a series of abrading grooves. Here are sinew stones found in southern New England by a friend of mine:



The OP's stone, in contrast, resembles more a arrow shaft abrading stone. But, JMHO.....

 

[tomclark]

WOW that is killer, Charl!!!!

 

[CHUDs]

Which little island are you from?

 

[tomsneck]

Martha’s Vineyard. Thanks for all the replies folks.