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[Unitedstatesofamerica1]

 

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[old digger]

Your item is not an Indian artifact. It is a mineral nodule. In certain areas in Montana and Wyoming you can find them in the thousands in and around the sagebrush drypans. Also around the badland areas.

 

[Unitedstatesofamerica1]

I live in Pennsylvania

 

[quito]

it's a concretion of some sort.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Most likely a Concretion. Google them and look at the images. You'll see all kinds just like it.

 

[Unitedstatesofamerica1]

Is it called a shaman stone I found it in a midden or is that a myth that shaman actually carried these things?

 

[unclemac]

i think you answered that yourself....

 

[Rege-PA]

It appears to be a Flanged button tectite..........Extremely rare to be whole and if it is, kind of like finding a clovis or rarer!
They are the result of meteor impact with the earth. The soil being fused to a glass like substance, the bottom should be slightly rounded as yours appears to be, this needs to be taken to a museum for verification, if I am right it is BANNER worthy. Impact could have come from Chesapeake meteor strike. I envy you, and if found in context with artifacts, they too found it special.
Please keep us informed.

 

[joshuaream]

It appears to be a Flanged button tectite..........Extremely rare to be whole and if it is, kind of like finding a clovis or rarer!
They are the result of meteor impact with the earth. The soil being fused to a glass like substance, the bottom should be slightly rounded as yours appears to be, this needs to be taken to a museum for verification, if I am right it is BANNER worthy. Impact could have come from Chesapeake meteor strike. I envy you, and if found in context with artifacts, they too found it special.
Please keep us informed.

Tektite is what jumped out to me as well, rarer than rare if that's what you found. Hold it up to a very bright light and see if the edges are translucent.

If you still post on the other site, a guy there named Briman is in real life a world class expert on Tektites.

 

[Unitedstatesofamerica1]

Are you talking about nuggetshooter?

 

[arrow86]

Tektite is what jumped out to me as well, rarer than rare if that's what you found. Hold it up to a very bright light and see if the edges are translucent.

If you still post on the other site, a guy there named Briman is in real life a world class expert on Tektites.

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Cool if that’s what it is , I had never heard of this before , the things you learn on Tnet [emoji51]

 

[Charl]

If you go with the odds, go with a concretion. Tektites are unknown from Pa., nor would one ever expect to find a tektite in that state. Well outside the strewn fields of any North American tektites....

 

[Charl]

The type of tektites shown in this thread resemble Australites. I don't believe that form is known from NA, but I could be wrong. Expect to find NA tektites in Georgia and Texas. I have heard of a single isolated example having been found on Martha's Vineyard years ago, but I can't confirm that. The NA strewn fields are associated with an impact that occurred in Chesapeake Bay....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite