Help with ID

[relicdigger3]

Can anyone confirm what this is? From my online research it seems to be a Native American shell bead or pendant.

 

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[arrow86]

Looks like a drilled shell but there is some fossils that can cause similar holes can’t tel for sure from that pic but the way it’s cracked from the hole to the edge I would lean towards drilled shell maybe for jewelry

 

[Rum Tide]

It is not uncommon to find shells like that here on the beaches in Florida.

 

[catherine1]

The hole looks drilled. But it does look like a small fossil shell. Is it hard like a rock, or chalky like a shell? Also where you found it, would also help.

 

[Rum Tide]

On the Southern Atlantic coast, Indians would use shells to drill and carve in the coral.

 

[relicdigger3]

I found this on a beach in south Florida known to be a site of the Tequesta.

 

[newnan man]

If you found it on the beach it most likely is a hole drilled by a marine animal that feeds on mollusks. Oyster drill type predators. Holes in shells on beaches are very common. Close up pics could help but I think Rum Tide is correct.