Have any idea what this is?

[JEL]

Hi guys new to the forum. I found this in North Alabama this weekend. I have had three friends that find quite a lot of artifacts and they are clueless. It is driving me nuts wondering what it is.

 

[trikikiwi]

Welcome to Treasurenet

More information will help us.
It's difficult to see from the pics exactly what sort of form the object takes. Is it a hollow pot type object?
What material is it? Is it heavy/light/magnetic?
In the 3rd pic, top left of object, there appears to be a round spot - is that a plug?
Was it dug or surface find?

The more info the merrier.

Cheers, Mike

 

[Monty]

The second pic looks like it's cast iron. Perhaps a cast iron collar used on a plumbing pipe? Just a guess. Monty

 

[worldtalker]

First pic top view ,2nd bottom view,3rd side view. AM I CORRECT??

 

[JEL]

More details. I found this lying in a creek in about 6" of water. It just looked like it was not supposed to be there. The first pic is of the small taper end and the second is of the larger taper. It is not cast iron, it's rock. I'm terrible in geology and don't know exactly what kind it is but we have a lot of it in the mountains and hills in AL. The rock on the inside is slag like you would put on a woods road. The dimple on it is just appears to be another rock, looks like a river pebble that was in the darker outside rock.

 

[Rmeav8r]

Is it smooth enough to be a broken part off of sharpening stone?

 

[Breezie]

I'm lost. Are you saying the item in photos 1 & 2 are the same item as the last photo, which you say is a rock? The thing in pic 1 & 2 looks like a mashed lens from a telescope or one lens from binoculars because I can see your carpet through what looks like plastic or glass.

WELCOME to TNet!

Breezie

 

[ohioaxeman]

Very interesting piece Gel! You should post a few more photos of this piece at different angles!

 

[JEL]

I can't seem to get any pictures of the tool marks on the narrow taper end. It is without a doubt, a rock in a rock. There is some type of grey/blue stone in the darker one and is not transparent or translucent at all. Wierd find.

 

[JEL]

A few more pics.

Narrow taper.

Big end.

Big end upright.

 

[High Plains Digger]

Ok, here is a really wild guess, mostly because I have no idea of the geology of the area you found it in.

1. Petrified wood. The exterior doesn't look too "woody" but that doesn't mean much. Many times, a "hollow" area can be replaced with a different kind of silica (agate, or quartz) than what the wood was replaced with.

2. A piece of a hollow lava bomb or small tube, later filled with agate (suppose it could possibly be opal in either option 1 of 2). The huge amethyst geodes from Brazil are found in lava flows and seem to be air bubbles or spaces that have slowly been filled with quartz. Occasionally, they are found solid.

3. A geode. Filled solid so the crystals are either incorporated into the massive form or filled so fast crystals did not get a chance to form. Does't look to "geodey" though.

It is hard to see the interior rock. Does it look like agate, quartz or maybe opal?

 

[trikikiwi]

................. It is not cast iron, it's rock. I'm terrible in geology and don't know exactly what kind it is but we have a lot of it in the mountains and hills in AL. ..........

Are you saying, there is a lot more of this same sort of rock around where you found it?
Mike

Edit: Actually, I'm sure High Plains Digger got it with his 3rd suggestion above.
3. A geode. Filled solid so the crystals are either incorporated into the massive form or filled so fast crystals did not get a chance to form.

Google Image " Alabama Geodes "

 

[JEL]

We can rule out petrified wood. I've seen and gathered some over the years and this is not it. The creek we were in is very rocky and about 60% of the rocks are the same as this. I should have a definitive answer tomorrow as I'm getting it into the hands of someone that can study it and tell me what it is, if he knows.

 

[DirtDigler]

You might also consider that it is fossilized bone, tooth or tusk of some kind. Or... a prehistoric pig-in-a-blanket. Most intriguing!

 

[trikikiwi]

Any further news ?

 

[DCMatt]

As suggested before, I'm thinking petrified bone. Here is an example of some river finds from TX. Not mine. I just located the pic on the internet. See what you think.

DCMatt