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Old 28-09-2008, 05:46 PM
Jim Ford Jim Ford is offline
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Re: Mystery marks on stone

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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 View Post
That's definitely a "worked" stone of some sort, and a whetstone seems eminently plausible.
I'd agree that it appears to be worked, but grooves like that would indicate an edge being removed, rather than being put on. In other words, a tool being blunted rather than sharpened. A rather unlikely scenario, I would think.

Jim
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