Bead with drill bit broken in it? Petrified finger? I dunno..

[dirtfishinMS]

Anyone know what this is or may be? Found in a creek in MS.

 

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[Buckleberry]

Some type of natural concretion.

 

[sandchip]

I agree with Buckles.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Pic 2 looks like they started to drill it with a core drill. A hollow cane with abrasive flint powder. That's the way they drilled bigger holes like in bannerstones. Here's a pic of a bannerstone I started to drill. Gary

 

[dirtfishinMS]

I've had a hunch it was natural, but it's one strange natural piece, haha. It's made of clay, and I just can't figure out a way that it could have formed like that.

 

[catherine1]

Its a root with clay formed around it, and now the root is decaying. Usually we see hollow ones with the host to form the concretion gone. Keep searching.

 

[dirtfishinMS]

The inside part is clay as well.