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(top) Opportunistic tool example. The natural form of this tool is angled and tapered to provide a handle. It is not, or perhaps very lightly worked, perhaps a few breaks to improve grip. (bottom) After washing the tool in water to remove dirt, a washboard-like parallel grooved working surface was revealed. The surface appears suitable for grinding plant material. This tool was found on the banks of the Olentangy River, Whetstone Park, Columbus, Ohio.
It is an abrasion stone. There is actually information on these on the web. It was used to to remove edges. Very collectible.
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You do see the face on the front of this piece right? On all the thousands of tools,effigies ect have faces of humans or animals or a mixture of both.
I have paintings, etchings, and actual carvings on 99% of my artifacts.I have pieces that no matter which way you turn it there is a face in some form or another. I've been doing this for about a year and I am still amazed by the artistic talent of these people.The tiny painstaking details on some of my
stones can only be seen clearly in full detail under a magnifing glass.
I am so very glad to have found your site and know that my best friend and I are not mental or cloud gazers.There is a small group of us that go on these artifact finds,we two are the only ones who believe and have known for a fact that what we are finding is real, not (sex rocks!)as our fellow hunters like to call them.
Feel free to email me, I have found some books at the libary which have some of these stone artifacts in them.
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Great artifacts I too collect same type of stones you do some are cobble hamerstones / nuttomg stones / arrow straightners / manos/ net sinkers and lots more look for me on u tube hunting arrowheads in west Virginia / Hitler 926
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This would have been used to mash corn or grain to make flour. It is exact to the old mill stones groves. Too bad you don't have the other half.
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