Round ball with parallel marks.

[Jboggs71]

This was found in the woods in Southwest Virginia.. It's made of what appears to be rock..

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Interesting !

 

[Almy]

Turned in a lathe, based upon seeing the rings.

 

[Nathan W]

That is interesting looking

 

[ncsuwolf]

Billiard ball?

Someone will know more than me, but do those lines say ivory……or bone?

 

[Nathan W]

I was going to say a game ball like croquet but if it's something like rock/bone or ivory not sure

 

[ncsuwolf]

I was going to say a game ball like croquet but if it's something like rock/bone or ivory not sure

Could be croquet

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Croquet or bocci

 

[Jose The Goon]

Croquet or bocci

I was thinking the same thing. If the diameter of the ball is 2 & 1/4 inches, there's a good chance that it is a Bocce "pallino" (small target ball that the players try to get close to with the larger balls that are rolled out of their hands)

 

[Chilli]

If its any of the above suggestions and is really old then a good pick up curio. 👍

 

[Fredneck]

The largest marbles are often called "Grandfathers," "Bullies," or "Jumbos," and can be the size of a billiard ball or larger, serving as powerful "shooters" in games, with other slang terms including Bumboozer, Boulder, or Masher.

 

[Jboggs71]

I was going to say a game ball like croquet but if it's something like rock/bone or ivory not sure

It's not perfectly round it has a couple places on it that aren't.. it's definitely made of stone or ivory

 

[AU Seeker]

It's not perfectly round it has a couple places on it that aren't.. it's definitely made of stone or ivory

You can test if it's ivory, get a sewing needle red hot and stick it to the ball, if it does nothing it's stone, if it smells awful and chars the ball it's ivory.

 

[Fredneck]

It's not perfectly round it has a couple places on it that aren't.. it's definitely made of stone or ivory

Not clay ? Clay marbles can be irregular.

 

[Digger RJ]

This was found in the woods in Southwest Virginia.. It's made of what appears to be rock..

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Swaveab]

Looks to possibly be an older bocce ball.

 

[AstralDruid]

The largest marbles are often called "Grandfathers," "Bullies," or "Jumbos," and can be the size of a billiard ball or larger, serving as powerful "shooters" in games, with other slang terms including Bumboozer, Boulder, or Masher.

In Ireland we called it a Taw,, maybe Taugh... pronounced the first spelling taw...
not sure that is one though..

 

[Almy]

I notice that the rings pretty uniformly spaced and I can see around 70 of them and there are more out of the photo's range. Growth rings would likely be spaced variously and there would not be that many of them.