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I found this rock in my backyard while digging up a huge piece of aluminum that my detector found.......Anyone know what the heck it is?....It looks to have been carved out...?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's a piece of stone? Hmm...yeah, it almost appears carved and very eroded--or some kind of fossil trace. I don't see mineral seams with that shape. I think an archaeologist would like to see that.  |
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This brings up an interesting question. We have an empty lot behind our house. I was playing around with the metal detector back there. I kept finding rocks (looked just like any other rock - not rusty or anything) that were setting off the metal detector. I'd dig them up, scan the hole again (nothing), then scan the rock (beep). Does anyone else find many "metal" rocks?
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Yeah I find metal rocks. Iron ore, some graphite, and melted metal chunks. One thing you gotta observe is if the rock is metal it could also be a meteorite and of course silver and gold.
The rock looks a little like a planolite fossil. Planolite is a worm track.
It dont look like the right type of rock for an artifact though.
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"Does anyone else find many "metal" rocks?"
I haven't found one, but sometimes they are meteorites.
The rock above appears to me to have a roughly pecked, but very eroded surface. If it was carved, it is pretty old--and perhaps pre-Columbian. It could easily be anything, but it's still very interesting. Having worked in Archaeology publishing for years, I'm certain a professor would like to see that. You would be surprised what more nondescript things turn out to be, and there could be much more underneath the surface.
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05/22/2008 12:50 am
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New Member
Canada
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Maybe you could do a knife test? Or scratch it?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What part of the country do you live in?
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I just thought it was interesting... A few years back,i Did find a large rock that reacted to the metal detector,and I just tossed it away.....Now I'm wondering if I tossed away a meteorite...  Guess Ill never know |
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How do you tell a meteorite from any other rock?
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I wish I had some meteorite pics to show...I've been looking for one for years. However, these two photos might be a fun example of how ordinary rocks can actually be something interesting. Ordinary rock?  It appears so, until one of the edges is closely examined, revealing a network of carefully spaced chips along the perimeter of this edge--not present elsewhere on the rock. I'm fairly certain this is a carefully re-worked surface of what may have been an originally sharp edge of chert, where the stone also fits well into the hand to be used as a scraping tool. I suspect there's a lot of interesting finds out there which get missed.  |
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That last Picture looks like the steak I had last night.....  seriously,though,how big is that stone?.....it looks like it would make a nice necklace,if its not huge! |
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LOL...it's the size of two golf balls.
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Mr. Finger, thanks...  As I mentioned above, the stone is chert, which is a local stone used for toolmaking by the native people. |
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Posted 05/22/2008 12:25 am
