IS THIS A NATIVE CLAY PIPE SHARD

[treasurepirate1]

on Thursday i was metal detecting just off my property in a lake near the moth of a river, i was metal detecting in there because the water levels are really low, i look down while i'm swinging and i see a dark object in the water i didn't pick it up tho, i found a trash item a couple minutes later and since i had the detector out of my hands i decides to pick up the dark object out of the shallow water just off the ice shelf, i looked at it and i can tell it looked like it was once a piece of a tube like object, but since it is only 10 ft off my property i wan't too sure, i did a little internet research about aboriginal pipes and this made me more confident because mine showed similarities. Today i went out to an Indian reserve and they had a store that had a little museum showing aboriginal history in the area, they had a bunch of ancient pipes, this is what got me exited because the piece i have has all of the characteristics as the one's there , so the real question is is it a piece of an ancient Indian pipe or just some junk clay object. oh yeah i couldn't get a picture of the pipe shards from that store museum because there was a sign saying no photos were aloud.

 

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[timekiller]

I would have to say no,don't look right to me.I've seen rust (iron) come from water looking like that but if it's not iron then I'd say it's a bone shard.I've found many indian clay pipes & that don't look like none of them to me.
Some in this post,
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,290874.0.html
But more in this post,
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,390586.0.html
Even more in the pic. below............
Keep looking,
&
Take Care,
Pete,

 

[Smilodon]

Hello, I think it is a fossil fragment from a whale tooth or possibly a fragemnt of ivory from a Mastodon or Mammoth Tusk. This link has some examples of the ivory. http://mammothivory4sale.blogspot.com/

 

[timekiller]

Without going out to the barn tonight in the cold & digging a better example of how rust can look like that I did have a old spike from a colonial site here in the house to see what I'm saying.Once iron has done this it is not even magnetic anymore has lost all it's properties.But would normally be very crumbly,have seen some pretty hard pieces though.But you look to have a bone shard.IMHO

 

[Tnmountains]

I agree with Time Killer. A burnt bone fragment. They would crush and go for the marrow and chunk in the fire. Common on ancient america sites and trash pits. The fire hardens bone..

 

[tomjiggy]

mmmmm bone marrow.....what?

 

[Ramitt]

mmmmm bone marrow.....what?

it is a delicacy.
http://www.tampabay.com/features/fo...hony-bourdains-favorite-meal-all-that/1041709

 

[tomjiggy]

I have to agree. As a kid I'd often crack my chicken bones and suck out the marrow. I was always hungry for some reason, and my mom complained that I was eating her outta house and home...lol

 

[treasurepirate1]

it could be bone, i sanded a little portion of it to see the coloration of it under the surface, and it is a reddish orange color, doas that part of bone turn that color after long periods under water or in the fire?

 

[timekiller]

it could be bone, i sanded a little portion of it to see the coloration of it under the surface, and it is a reddish orange color, doas that part of bone turn that color after long periods under water or in the fire?

Can we see where you sanded the piece......Sounds strange if red.
Anyway I based my thought on what I find to be the case.That is they all are rough like sand paper (very much like their pottery/same thing) to the feel & all have come from water/sand beaches & have been there for hundreds of years still rough or gritty feeling & for sure clay made.