Could this be a stone tool, or just a rock?

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Found this stone in my kids room. They often pick up rocks as they go along, so no idea where it is from. Looking at it, the curved edge looks deliberately chipped, like flint knapping. It is small, so would have had to be a very tiny axe! Am I just seeing things in a normal stone, or could this be something more interesting?

That looks like the kind of tool used for scraping hides. Not that I'm an expert mind you.
But I agree it looks deliberately created for a purpose to me.
Cool.

reddit will have an answer!

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/?

Hide scraper would be cool**

I have never reddited before, will take a look. Thank you

If you Google images search
Upper palaeolithic hand tools
Middle palaeolithic hand tools
and
Lower palaeolithic hand tools

You might find a close match for better suggestions

I have tried those and scraper tool. Everything coming up seems more arrowhead / egg shape with the point being sharp. This is more like an axe head shape, buy would be a useless axe with no weight.

It might be one of a number of microliths used together, say set into a piece of wood to create a saw or other tool. This was common in the Mesolithic period, when tools tended to be made up like this rather than as single larger tools (this is a big generalisation, but broadly true).

The cutting surface does look to have been deliberately knapped, and it has the characteristic shape of a flint flake knapped off a bigger node of flint.

You could email pictures to a museum perhaps? Or a university that teaches archaeology?

Shame no archaeologists have replied, eh?

Yep! I know someone with a reddit account who had posted for me, so will see if that comes up with anything. Otherwise it will remain as a mysterious small rock.

I think it could be.. contact your local archaeology association or museum.

Noooooo!

Until someone tells you otherwise, it’s an awesome prehistoric tool whose discovery makes you and your kids archaeologists.

Embrace the better narrative 😉

I had my tongue in my cheek… I am an archaeologist and had already replied!

Ahhh awesome! Officially archaeologist approved, so it must be an exciting find and not a pebble. I feel a lot of attempting to impart knowledge to my uncaring offspring coming up.