found in a half sunken barrel

Justin1978 · Sep 2, 2018

my wife and i found these in a barrel in a very old patch of woods last year or year before. forgot about them for awhile, we started going through them today.... please help identifying what you can, there are going to be many pictures, and just as many in indian artifacts.

DDancer · Sep 3, 2018

Picture 1 Crinoid stem fossil thats been agatized much like petrified wood.

Picture 2 What I'll call sugar quartz, small quartz crystals in a vuggy lattice.

Picture 5 A quartz vug with large crystals. Picture 6 Another quartz vug from a seam of quartz. And picture 9 The same as the last one.

Pic 11 What I'll simply call quartzite, a dense quartz materiel though this one looks like it was found in a stream.

Pic 3 Looks to be a sedimentary stone with a high silicate. Would polish up nice.
And the last two The same for this too however I appears to be fossilized mud.
Pic 4 This one could be chalcedony but it has the look of something formed in a cave. Hardness test would help.

As to the rest, stones

Cant really say much more than that.
My opinion.

Justin1978 · Sep 3, 2018

DDancer said:
Picture 1 Crinoid stem fossil thats been agatized much like petrified wood.

Picture 2 What I'll call sugar quartz, small quartz crystals in a vuggy lattice.

Picture 5 A quartz vug with large crystals. Picture 6 Another quartz vug from a seam of quartz. And picture 9 The same as the last one.

Pic 11 What I'll simply call quartzite, a dense quartz materiel though this one looks like it was found in a stream.

Pic 3 Looks to be a sedimentary stone with a high silicate. Would polish up nice.
And the last two The same for this too however I appears to be fossilized mud.
Pic 4 This one could be chalcedony but it has the look of something formed in a cave. Hardness test would help.

As to the rest, stones Cant really say much more than that.
My opinion.