Indian Stone Hand Scraper??

[Anonymous]

I found this last weekend while doing some yard work, at our place outside Roscommon Michigan.
I was removing sod to replace it with topsoil and seed. I tossed any interesting rocks on the deck to look at later, maybe use them for decoration or something.
I looked at this one and saw that it had been hand fashioned. It has a sharp edge, which I had a heck of a time getting a good picture of and a relief on each sides for the thumb and fingers to hold it.
I thought it was pretty neat and to me, worth more than all the silver halves I have found <img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin"> <img src="http://findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10242/scraper1.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10242/scraper2.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10242/scraper3.jpg" alt="" />

 

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[Anonymous]

Prehistoric man tended to use flint/chert to fashion hand tools, primarily the primitive choppers, scrapers and hand axes. Although possible, I doubt the piece you have is man made. The material would not have been choice, and there apppears to be no polish present. Any use at all would have left tell-tell signs of polish. The "finger/thumb" grooves appear to be natural. One side does appear to have been percussion flaked, but I've seen many examples that occured naturally in nature. Keep your keen eye out, that's how we find these things. Good hunting, David @ Dixie <center><a href="http://www.dixie-metal-detectors.com"><img src="/metal/html/d-m.jpg"></center>

 

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