Need Some Expert Help With This.

[FunWithTreasure]

I posted this in the Indian Section but had really not much luck so I am posting it here so more people can maybe see it..

Was about 5 miles up in a mountain in Connecticut today doing alittle gold panning. I was digging in the stream when I came across this..Not sure what it is..Couldnt get any pics of it so I had to video it..Looks like it was tumbling around in the water for a long time. It is all stone. Has holes drilled in it crudely. I didnt realize till I got it home that it had a mark on the bottom.. Any Ideas...What makes me wonder is because of how far from civiliztion we where..

Some people say they think it may be fozzilized bone..

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[DD-777]

Definitely not bone. Those two surfaces look way to level and smooth (almost polished) to be something that was being tumbled around in the water for a long time as well (too flat (?) ). Personally, it looks like slag but it's hard to tell without actually holding the object. This could be the new "whatsit" that drives folks crazy for 2009...

 

[FunWithTreasure]

Definitely not bone. Those two surfaces look way to level and smooth (almost polished) to be something that was being tumbled around in the water for a long time as well (too flat (?) ). Personally, it looks like slag but it's hard to tell without actually holding the object. This could be the new "whatsit" that drives folks crazy for 2009...

Wouldnt slag be metal It definitly has no metal in it.

 

[DD-777]

Definitely not bone. Those two surfaces look way to level and smooth (almost polished) to be something that was being tumbled around in the water for a long time as well (too flat (?) ). Personally, it looks like slag but it's hard to tell without actually holding the object. This could be the new "whatsit" that drives folks crazy for 2009...

Wouldnt slag be metal It definitly has no metal in it.

I just looked at it full-screen and it doesn't even look like stone. Almost looks like dark gray color (paint or clay) over a white substrate. That top section with the two "pairs" of holes looks way too flat/smooth to be something that was NOT man made (not shouting there, just emphasizing ) - including those small holes themselves. The "bottom", with it's curved shape, almost seems like it was formed around a tube. As far as slag being metal - I've dug big chunks of what I thought was stone that turned out to be slag (sometimes the detector picked it up and sometimes it did not). The best thing you can do is take some very clear, well lit and focused photographs and/or a longer video with sound so we can hear an accurate description of your "whatsit". That would surely help expedite the identification process...


Also, if it were tumbling around in the water for a long period of time (even just a couple of years), it would more than likely have much smoother, rounded edges.

 

[Tubecity]

It's way too smooth to be any slag from an iron or steelmaking process. Could it be some type of bone
that was re-worked & smoothed down ? My first thought was that it looked like some tool that could be
used to 'whittle' down sticks for arrows. The V shaped bottom to trim them down & maybe the two larger
holes to round up the arrows or their tips. Interesting piece, seems to be man-made to me.
No clue to what the 2 pair of small holes are for.

 

[geo4472]

dont think its totaly man made looked like it has some kind of calcite or quartz crystals in it might have been something carved

 

[FunWithTreasure]

I am going to take anouther video of it with sound and the dimensions and weight.

 

[texan connection]

Its the Handle off aladins lamp rub it. I dont know but its def one cool Item

 

[Goodyguy]

I think it is the bottom part of some decorative object. The holes on the flat parts are where something else was mounted to it.
The mark at the bottom is the clue to the manufacturer, looks like a potters mark.