Wondering if this could be a firestarter?

[Worldman304]

Wondering if this could be a native fire starter.has some interesting boring action going on,doesnt appear to be natural,but I could be wrong any ideas y'all?, Found in kanawha co WV.

[2ndoldman]

Can you show a closeup of the actual circular depression?
Things get fuzzy and one dimensional when I blow them up.
This looks like a lunar landscape picture now.

[-=METACOM=-]

Is that a fossil? Pretty interesting...

[Worldman304]

Hopefully this pics a lil better ,

[OnewiththewilD]

No it’s not a palm stone

[OnewiththewilD]

Just look at the overall rock too, it doesn’t look like a tool

[Worldman304]

The overall rock is just a rock.im only referring to the bore hole.i can make out about 15 lines around,its a metal ish ore type rock.prob iron ore. Mostly wondering fire starter just that one spot.or fossil. I've seen these kinda groove marks on other things but never this fine.almost like a screw.but wider.thats bout the best I can explain it.it does have a simple impression at the btm of that lil hole.

[OnewiththewilD]

I understand that, what I mean by tool is that rock is obviously not very comfortable to hold, so that right there tells you they didn’t use it as part of a bow and drill friction fire set, your assuming that it was used as the palm stone to hold the spindle while working the bow and the spindle drilled a hole there from use. Btw it looks like maybe a fossil to me anyways.

[Worldman304]

Got ya I agree also.usuallt ida found like a finger spot indention. But hey even if a fossil it's a good one.

[Hoss]

looks like a fossil to me too.

[Limestoned]

Is it a shark vertebrae? There are some pictures of those that look very similar to your find.