Now do you get it Steven? To me it looks like a very old POFR......same lines as in the other posts....first two letters stand for plain ol and the last letter stands for rock......
Do you see a pattern here yet? Sorry Sailordad, but from the pictures it is what it looks like,......However, that does not conclude that it was not ever used as a tool. It very well could have been a hide scraper, a nut cracker, (all types
), or it could have been thrown at someone, thereby making it a weapon, which is a tool. So " Imagine if you will......" It's October, a slight tinge of winter in the crisp and clear air......an Indian encampment, in the birch, near a lake. There are Birch Bark canoes, on the shore, and in the water with Indians, paddling to shore, with deer, and other food sources in their canoes. On shore, the Women are preparing hides, and next to the fires, are Women and children, cooking wild rice, ducks, and wild onions. One Woman asks another older Woman, in a rather, rude, and caustic manner, to toss that rock to her so she can pulverize some cattail roots. The older Woman gives her a not so friendly look and tosses the rock to her. Well ok she throws it at her, and clocks her just above the eyebrows, and knocks her out cold.
The other Women look at the old woman and say, Barking Squirrel, why you hit with Squatting Toad, with rock so hard it knocked little chips off of it? And Barking Squirrel says, she needed it!
So you see, even though it may not look like a well used tool, it could have been used well.
P.S. You could use it as a tool......paper weight, a Wo Ti stone, (Good luck stone ) a hide scraper, a nut smacker......meat tenderizer, door stop, spacer to hold up the front porch, key hider, etc.
Wayne
