Dougie Webb
Sr. Member
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2019
- Messages
- 402
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- Location
- Stone Mountain, Georgia
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F5
Garrett Ace 200
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
First, let's just all pretend that this thing isn't shaped like what it looks like...#nocomment
I went from meteorite to maybe hematite to likely slag. This thing is dense, highly magnetic, and leaves a brown streak. However, when I put it to the angle grinder to see inside it, the part that's now exposed leaves a gray streak.
If this is iron slag, there are no known furnaces within 50 miles of here. Is it slag from a blacksmith? Or is it simply a really old, bent nail with years of rust on top of it? I have found pieces like this scattered in no logical manner across a 40 acre property. They all have the same characteristics and look the same when I grind one of the ends.
Would love any insight. Thanks!
I went from meteorite to maybe hematite to likely slag. This thing is dense, highly magnetic, and leaves a brown streak. However, when I put it to the angle grinder to see inside it, the part that's now exposed leaves a gray streak.
If this is iron slag, there are no known furnaces within 50 miles of here. Is it slag from a blacksmith? Or is it simply a really old, bent nail with years of rust on top of it? I have found pieces like this scattered in no logical manner across a 40 acre property. They all have the same characteristics and look the same when I grind one of the ends.
Would love any insight. Thanks!
