Is this petrified wood or bone?

BenVa68

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I dug this while metal detecting yesterday. At first i thought it was a cow bone or something but when i picked it up it was very heavy and felt like a rock. I dont know anything about fossils. Someone said the think its fossilized wood but im not sure.
 

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you did check it with a magnet first did'nt cha ?

Yes. Not magnetic and the metal detector did not pick it up. It was just in the ground where i happened to be digging.
 

Cool find looks like petrified wood to me
 

I don’t think it’s Pet. Wood. I don’t see any patterns on the end of the wood. You could cut a slice off one of the ends and take a picture of the cut edge while wet. It should show either cell structure or a growth pattern. I’m leaning more toward bone.
 

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