This diamond shaped stone is 2.75 in./ 70 mm X 1.675 in./ 41 mm in width. The stone is a double hole gorget found in Umatilla County, Oregon according to the COA written by John Boyd. This stone has similar characteristics of a stone gorget with two holes 13/16 in. apart (ref. Oklahoma Indian Artifacts, Bell, 1980, pp. 52,53). Robert Bell considers these artifacts "a rare find ...and more prevalently found in the Great Lakes states and associated with the Archaic and Woodland periods". Although our stone was found in Oregon there may be common ground here actually it's the water-the Columbia River. This stone has four sides similar to a Harahey knife; no matter how you hold it -it works. The stone has been polished but not to perfection with divots and pockets; it's not beautiful to look at. The edges, all four, have been scribed with a line or groove (similar to a boatstone) and with graduated hash marks at roughly .250 in. on all four sides (measured with a machinist's scale). This researcher believes that this may have been more than a gorget but a tool kept around the neck and not to be lost (conjecture). Similar artifacts with two holes often show signs of wear at those holes implicating a function rather than personal decoration. (ref. Prehistoric Implements, Moorehead, 1983, p.222). Little is known of archaic period fishing with lines being used at 2000 B.P. It is speculated that this tool was possibly used for making cordage from two lines twisted (through the two holes) and later knotted at the intervals of the graduated hash marks while laid into the groove to make a fishing net. This theory would be supported by the round cornered gorget stones and the plummet stones as net weights, sold in an earlier auctions of Bracken artifacts. (ref. Indian Artifacts, Russell, 1974,pp. 66, 68, 69; John Boyd COA). Please see photos for details. (KAW) Oregon Gary Bracken Collection