🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help to identify this rock, please.

[Helotojasi]

Hi. Can anyone identify this rock, please? It's very heavy for its size and appears to have a crust, but doesn't appear to be magnetic. Thank you.

 

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[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Is that tape measure patched?

 

[Helotojasi]

Is that tape measure patched?

Not sure what you mean? It's a normal tape measure. Why do you ask?

 

[scavenger1]

Do you think its possibly a Nickel meteorite? If you have a metal detector you can run the rock across the coil and document the reading and sound, then run a bag of nickels about the same weight across the coil and see if it's close to the rock's readings you just documented if it's not repeat that process with other metals like cooper penny's, silver, lead, etc. Maybe you'll get lucky and find your metal. After you find your metal then google images of that metal's meteorite and see if it looks like your rock. Hope that helps. If you don't own a metal detect well sir... BUY ONE! You got treasure hunting in you I can smell it

 

[Abluca07]

Hi. Can anyone identify this rock, please? It's very heavy for its size and appears to have a crust, but doesn't appear to be magnetic. Thank you.

Use google lens

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Not sure what you mean? It's a normal tape measure. Why do you ask?

I was wondering about the 10 feet/3 meter markings, but I'll guess that is the total length of the tape?

 

[galenrog]

The markings in red, 10feet and 3m, are the maximum marked length of the tape. It makes sense. 3 meters is just shy of 10 feet.

Like many measuring tapes sold on the United States, one edge will have markings in inches and feet while the other edge will be marked in centimeters and meters. Of the dozen or so I have, only one is metric only and only one is inches/feet only.

Time for more coffee.

 

[potsherd_creek]

Found in water or soil? I believe iron acidic water could cause this or heavy minerals or decaying matter.
A small file test maybe. There is not even a weak magnetic attraction?

 

[potsherd_creek]

also, was there a fire in this area recently? I know it probably isn't but reminds me of a campfire rock.

 

[Helotojasi]

Found in water or soil? I believe iron acidic water could cause this or heavy minerals or decaying matter.
A small file test maybe. There is not even a weak magnetic attraction?

It was found in soil in the UK with a metal detector. Only very shallow. It doesn't seem to be even weakly magnetic. It does show a non-ferrous reading on the metal detector.

What do I need to look for in a file test? Thanks.

 

[Helotojasi]

I've rubbed a corner of it it gently on ceramic and it seems to have exposed a gold-ish metal colour. (See photo). Could it just be a lump of non ferrous metal? Bronze?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Crack it open.

 

[potsherd_creek]

It was found in soil in the UK with a metal detector. Only very shallow. It doesn't seem to be even weakly magnetic. It does show a non-ferrous reading on the metal detector.

What do I need to look for in a file test? Thanks.

I do not think that that the rock is anything special, I saw some that looked similar in the creek today. You can wire brush or file to see what's beneath the crusty exterior.