What is this?

[Texas by God]

I have owned this since I was a little boy.
I know what it is- do you?
It's roughly the size of a football.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220502/a25cd008e927bd643c97eacecd2390f7.jpg

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[Thumbcocker]

Is it magnetic?

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[Velosa]

Looks kind of like a tortoise shell

[shooter bob]

Meteor?

[Winger Ed.]

Dinosaur poop.

[cwtebay]

Is it solidified silt from a snapper shell?

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[GL49]

beats me.

If it was stuck on the wall I'd say a swallow's nest, or a buncha bees that I don't want to fool with.

[Dusty Bannister]

It in some ways looks like it has been exposed to trickling water for a very long time. Did you go caving?

[NyFirefighter357]

A chunk of vulcanized rubber or natural tar ball.

[farmbif]

like lava heated sap from a rubber tree?

[jsizemore]

chert

[poppy42]

An egg from an intergalactic alien! Watch out when it hatches!

[Half Dog]

I need a hint. What does it taste like?

[samari46]

Space herpes egg. Frank

[GregLaROCHE]

Fossil of a horseshoe crab.

[Shepherd2]

It looks like chert to me. I've found dozens of arrow heads made from it.

[head for the hills]

Brandons’ toupe’.

[Hossfly]

Flip it over.

[trebor44]

Tar lump

[dg31872]

Lead?

[Markopolo]

YO Thomas…. More pics!

[Sasquatch-1]

I would say it looks like something I had for breakfast at the Cracker Barrel once. I wasn't sure what it was then either.:groner:

[Texas by God]

Flip it over.I'll do that this evening- good idea!

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[sparky45]

Google Chert.

[Shawlerbrook]

Is it heavy or light for it’s size ? Looks like a big chunk of coal.

[Electrod47]

Well if your like me to keep something since you were a kid and survived your mom trying to clean out your room every now and again. It would have to be something harmless.

Its one huge Paper Wasp Nest.

[Bazoo]

Obsidian

[gwpercle]

If it's the size of a football ...
and if it's not very heavy ...
and if there isn't a hole in the end on upper right ...
It looks a lot like the Coconut I brought home from Florida ...
inside a fiberous husk you will find the coconut shell and meat .
Where the husk / nut was attached to the tree is on lower left of photo .

So My Guess , if light in weight ... is an old Coconut with husk still on .

Looking at it again , it could be a Bald-Faced Hornet nest ...
the lower left appendage in photo could be the tree limb it hung from .

Guess #2 ... if there's a hole in the upper right end ...
...Bald Faced Hornets Nest
Gary

[GregLaROCHE]

Take it to a museum or university with a paleontology department. They will tell you.

[quilbilly]

chert
I agree.

[Pine Baron]

First glance , I agree with Greg, Horseshoe crab shell. But, I'm from the shore, so what do I know.

[~JM~]

299735

[Wayne Smith]

A large gord or pumpkin or squash. But why would you keep one since childhood. Won a prize with it at the county fair?

[slim1836]

299735

Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart.

Slim

[Shawlerbrook]

Greg LaRoche had the best answer !!!

[alfadan]

299735

That there is a Boeing Bomb! You can tell by the peanut.

[nvbirdman]

My dominatrix girlfriend has one of those, but I've always been afraid to ask her what it is.

[Texas by God]

Lots of great wrong guesses so far!
It weighs around 15 lbs give or take 5 lbs...
Here's a different view.
I'll give the answer later tonight if no one gets it right. Forgive the dirt, it's been sitting on the ground for decades....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220503/e8582b1bf1186ac4fb656eef0c223dad.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220503/2ff637b55f0ef0dcce6773d52a2a9e8c.jpg

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[Bazoo]

Coke.

[MarkP]

Build up near the spray nozzle of a corrosion coating system; such as a process for applying it on the base of direct embedded poles / towers and or burried tanks.

solidified Coal tar


Can you post picture of fracture surface shown below?

299738

[farmbif]

meteorite?

[Hogtamer]

looks like an old piece of wood that got rolled around in the river for a long time. Find ‘em in the swamp all the time

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=1: Biden`s brain?
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Texas by God]

If I hadn't been there when this was created, I would think it was some weird kind of rock.
Summer of 1966- one Sunday morning during church, our biggest hay barn caught fire somehow. Full of fresh cut Sudan square bales that we finished stacking Saturday night. Inside the barn, a neighbors home made hay hauling machine was parked.
We didn't know if it was spontaneous combustion from the rich green hay or a wiring short on the machine- but the barn burned to the ground, making for a rough year.
Anyway, poking through the rubble, we found a few of these. My oldest brother found one that was still warm. He took an axe to it and we found Sudan hay inside. I can't explain it, but I'm guessing some of the greenest hay simply carberized from the heat of the fire.
It's basically melted hay.
Thanks for playing!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220504/aea18c0736236f5f71a625dfa03fa341.jpg

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[Bazoo]

Basically a big chunk of charcoal then? Cool thanks for sharing. You ever try to take a chunk and burn it?

[Texas by God]

Not charcoal as far as I can tell. It is rain,sun,wind,ice, dust and everything else proof for 56 years so far.
I wish it was Obsidian, Bazoo! It would make lots of arrowheads to sell online- if I knew how to make arrowheads…..

[MaryB]

petrified wood...

[wgr]

well i do,nt know but its a nice one

[gwpercle]

looks like an old piece of wood that got rolled around in the river for a long time. Find ‘em in the swamp all the time

:goodpost:

I was thinking this also ... I've also found several , I have one that looks like a fish , so I mounted it on a board ,like a taxidermist would a mounted fish ... I think it's around in the garage someplace ... next archeology dig I'll look for it !
Sorta look like pine knots out of downed , rotted trees... but cool looking things to find .
Gary

[10x]

coprolite

[gwpercle]

The way the hay burned , limited combustion and all it formed essentially ... Charcoal
It's a big Lump of Charcoal .... and you kept it all these years .

Don't be calling me a pack-rat ... you one too !

Thanks for the post ... it was fun playing !
Gary

[Texas by God]

It's not porous like charcoal at all. Maybe I should saw out a pair of handgun grips from it. Nah. It ain't eating anything, I'll just leave it there by the dog pen.
I'll put up another (easier) thing to guess soon.

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[Texas by God]

OK, here's another. What is this?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220509/5c529fae1fdec0b9ff30aa576d596ec2.jpg

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[Bazoo]

Piece of nearly petrified fence post with woodpecker tracks?

[cwtebay]

Ostrich skin cover for an AR mag!

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[sparky45]

Fossil of the Scale Tree.

[blackthorn]

Petrified Rye bread that my EX wife cooked!

[MaryB]

hunk of moldy french bread laying in the grass with holes from the birds pecking at it!

[Thumbcocker]

Cactus wood?

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[Hossfly]

Flip it over.

[slim1836]

Indian sex stone.

Slim

[Texas by God]

Indian sex stone.

SlimYes, I know the punch line on that![emoji16]

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[Texas by God]

Flip it over.It looks the same- just dirtier.

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[Texas by God]

Fossil of the Scale Tree.DingDingDing! We have a winner.
Thanks, sparky45!
I knew it was a piece of petrified plant material- but that's all I knew. Thanks for the knowledge!
We found lots of these in two lines around a dozen feet long. They lay side by side where they fell no telling how many thousands of years ago. They are in a wash leading to the Sabana River in Comanche County, Texas.
Thanks for playing!

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[sparky45]

Little more detail:
Lepidodendron
Plant
Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of primitive, vascular plants also known as scale trees, related to the quillworts and lycopsids. They were part of the coal forest flora. They sometimes reached heights of 50 metres, and the trunks were often over 1 m in diameter. They thrived during the Carboniferous Period Wikipedia
Scientific name: Lepidodendron
Age: about 359 million to 299 million years ago britannica.com

A little older than you thought.

Order: †Lepidodendrales
Family: †Lepidodendraceae
Kingdom: Plantae

Couple of years ago I found a large chunk of the fossil encased within sandstone. Got it out of the canyon and sent it to the University of Kansas.

[Wolfdog91]

Some kinda geode mabye?

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[WheelgunConvert]

Incinerator Furnace slag

[GregLaROCHE]

So how did you find out what it was?

[Tripplebeards]

Texas, here’s one for you to figure out for me. Found it the other day. Looks to me like a petrified dinosaur or woolly mammoth bone?

https://i.imgur.com/ccW0Sk9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/guUslBN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/h0ktyid.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bdnWpzM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6Znbl38.jpg


And my ancient tool I found a few weeks ago on my land…


https://i.imgur.com/86Rcokj.jpg

[cwtebay]

Texas, here’s one for you to figure out for me. Found it the other day. Looks to me like a petrified dinosaur or woolly mammoth bone?

https://i.imgur.com/ccW0Sk9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/guUslBN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/h0ktyid.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bdnWpzM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6Znbl38.jpg


And my ancient tool I found a few weeks ago on my land…


https://i.imgur.com/86Rcokj.jpgIt looks like a petrified fragment of long bone with the associated cancellous bone on the inner radius. Presumably that would indicate a mammalian source. It would be interesting to wrap it with a piece of paper to estimate the original diameter, perhaps establish the former owner's size.

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[Tripplebeards]

A Caveman's forearm????

[cwtebay]

A Caveman's forearm????Be one heck of a forearm!!!!
Judging from your photos, I would estimate the piece in its entirety would be around 3" diameter, and wow is that cortex thick!

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[Tripplebeards]

Here are a couple of other cool rocks I found on my property…

https://i.imgur.com/K98yuaH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pB0Vork.jpg

A voodoo shrunken head and quartz that looks like carp skin.lol

I found another cool rock today that I will have to take a shovel back to dig out. Reminds me of the “Carp skin” rock but is a big white crater looking round ball sticking out of the ground.