What is this Puget Sound Beach find?

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I was walking a fairly remote private beach and found this mystery. Not metal, very thin. Leaves streak onto basalt rocks if rubbed together.

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so it's stone?...some sort of knife or marine animal harpoon type head? it looks to be beveled all the way around?
 

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found south sound, north...island beach...peninsula?...
 

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I would also post this in our native american artifact forum...awsome.my guess something like this..

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If it's polished stone, my swag would be a tomahawk head.
 

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so it's stone?...some sort of knife or marine animal harpoon type head? it looks to be beveled all the way around?

Yes, beveled all the way around. Private property beach on an Island in the south sound right where I find a few points a year. Looks like oxidized copper but metal detector but doesn't react.

Did a scratrch hardness test and it's softer than basalt, but I didn't do any more just in case it really is something.

But the angles and bevels all seem to be too perfect (?) and I can't determine/figure out material... Trying to think IF was modern (bakelite, etc.) with that shape, what would it be used for? A practice bow hunting point, a toilet shim from a '56 Bayliner, .... before getting too excited.
 

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