No coinage but, a really cool rock! UPDATE

[watercolor]

While looking for old homesites with Lobatts & Mayo today I found this
cool looking rock. . . It appears there's a fossilized bone(?) embedded in
a sandstone matrix. What's interesting, the area we were hunting was
glaciated over 10,000-years ago so this must have been carried down
from way up north.

When I found this, only about 10% of the top portion was peeking
through the ground. . . the only reason I dug it was it looked like part
of a stone axe head.

I wish I found it at the END of our hunt as this sucker weighs in around
8-pounds. . . it was a bear to carry around :P

Thanks for looking!

 

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[Lowbatts]

Re: No coinage but, a really cool rock!

Uhh, I'm still wondering just how you managed to eyeball this thing. We gotta get you on a trip to Africa to find the rest of Ardi!

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/ardipithecus/

This is one that may really WOW us when it gets some final determination, awesome find Mark! It had to be some fairly big critter that left it's bone in the stone!

 

[Pocket Spill]

Re: No coinage but, a really cool rock!

You really got a good eye out in the field! Congratulations!

 

[kimsdad]

Re: No coinage but, a really cool rock!

Detector? You don't need no stinking detector!

Great and interesting find!!!

Beats carrying around an old stove lid or a couple of rusty horseshoes, doesn't it?

 

[litefire56]

Re: No coinage but, a really cool rock!

Talk about finding the "oldies", wow!

Great looking fossil Mark!!

 

[watercolor]

Re: No coinage but, a really cool rock!

I sent these pic's to a professor at UIC and got a reply.

From the pic's I sent, he was fairly certain this was a "trace fossil" that
most likely was created by some burrowing creature and the "void" that
was created, was then filled with mineral deposits. So it's not part of
any fossilized animal bone.

Anyway, it'll look cool displayed on the bookshelf