5th December 2011, 09:54 AM
If it were a chopping board I imagine a large heavy knife used in a cleaver fashion for butchery could leave similar marks. However, they would mostly be concentrated towards the middle of the faces of the stone, not at the edges.
There's a number of small "dots" among the scoring in the second image, are they indentations? If so I'd go with the leather-working idea, and those could be left by a punch.
The more I look at it the less convinced I get...especially the way most of the lines on the second image are parallel, with a few at an angle and one perpendicular -- not what you'd expect from normal wear from use...
There's a number of small "dots" among the scoring in the second image, are they indentations? If so I'd go with the leather-working idea, and those could be left by a punch.
The more I look at it the less convinced I get...especially the way most of the lines on the second image are parallel, with a few at an angle and one perpendicular -- not what you'd expect from normal wear from use...