Need I.D. Perhaps pin.

[jimb]

I have no idea if this is a anchor pin for a small boat or just a rock or anything else. Any ideas?

 

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[drumking12]

My guess would be a corroded iron railroad spike... just my two cents.

Rick

 

[jimb]

It is made of stone.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

That is the Zist Pin off of Fred Flinstones vehicle. It was used to hold the steering wheel to the front axle.




Looks natural to me.

 

[jimb]

I am thinking natural also, but who knows?

 

[luckyinkentucky]

It could have been made of 'Pig Iron' at one time. I found some old corroded arrowhead shaped rocks back in the Spring. Everyone was saying 'natural ... natural ... natural !!! ', but I was skeptical. So, at the advice of a close friend I send samples off to Coral Gables, FL, and the lab at the Anthropology Dept. at the Univ. of Kentucky. It came back unanimously from both sources as being 'Early Pig Iron'. Pig Iron was the first form of Iron introduced into the New World. English, French, and Spanish travelers/explorers had knowledge of it's making, and more than likely 'cooked it up' in smelters using raw iron ore and limestone. Limestone was used to thicken it up and harden it. After it has been in the ground for awhile it turns back to it's natural state, like all things, and it was an arrowhead shaped piece of limestone with small traces of iron.

This could be the case with your piece. It does look like an iron spike of some sort. Similar to the ones used on ships in the early days of this country's discovery. It could be an old iron spike that has been corroded beyond recognition.

I'd be willing to bet that if you broke off the very end of it you would see a rusty red and thin 'twig' that was once the iron in the piece.

Another thing ..... it probably won't show up on a metal detector, nor will at magnet be attracted to it at this state. So, you can't go by magnetism. It's magnetic state was lost long ago through the corrosion process. If it does ... well ... then you know it was metal at one time.

 

[creekhunter]

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