Found this today

[sscrob]

Found this while digging one of my many nails and pieces of fence today on the farm. This is my second day detecting with my new f2 from Bart and I'm still In the dig every signal stage. This is about the size of a baseball, I don't know if it's an artifact or it's natural. The only reason I found it is because there was a nail about 4 inches deep. This was right under it.

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

Welcome to T Net!
Is it metal? What does it weigh? Looks like it has a seam around it, hmmm that's a mystery! Hopefully somebody knows.
If not try posting it in the "what's it" forum farther down on the forums list. Interesting find!

 

[sscrob]

No it's stone, not metal.

 

[sscrob]

Gonna guess it weighs 2 or 3 pounds.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Looks like a croquet ball.

 

[dig kzoo]

Welcome! cool find!

 

[parsonwalker]

Looks too perfect to be natural. I know nothing about native Americans . . . but could it be an Indian game piece?

 

[voodoo]

I was going to say croquet, bocci, laccross or cnapan ball (although the last two I believe were made with some kind of leather wrap). Sorry I couldn't have been more help.

 

[voodoo]

sorry and cnapan is the original form of rugby (football) from Whales.

 

[YumaMarc]

Hmmmm.....I don't know where you found it, but considering it's stone with a groove around the circumference, it reminds me of the Argentine "bola". However it is a bit larger than most.

 

[sscrob]

I've been looking on the web and I can't find anything exactly like it. Maybe a geode? I know a guy with a rock saw, if I can't figure it out I might have it cut in half to see if there's anything inside. Thanks for all the replies.

 

[Kodiak43351]

Interesting find can't wait to hear what it is.

 

[absosecur]

I think it is a croquet ball without the outer skin on it. I have held them and they do tend to have that ridge around them and they are quite heavy for their size.

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[PeteWmass]

I swear I saw post - and those balls are used as "tumbling medium" in some sort of tumbling/crushing machine?

 

[Pointman]

If it is hard like stone it may be made of concrete, and it looks like there is a seam which would indicate this.