Meteorite????

[lv2sign804]

I hope I am poisting this correctly since I have never posted on here before... I own a home sitting on historical land and find relics dating from Revolutionary War to the present. Recently my husband and I also started digging up old Paleo Native American artifacts as well.
Getting to the point, I dig up iron objects, amongst many other indentifiable/ unidentifiable metal objects every time I go out, but the objects on my profile picture is nothing like We have ever seen before. It was found about 10 inches deep in the dirt and appeared to me, to be an old iron an spear head or something similar. To my surprise, I couldn't believe how heavy it was. It had a sandy, rusty outer coating so I soaked it to see what it was overnight. The next morning I went to clean it off and it wouldn't come clean. Tried to chip it, drop it, cut it, and nothing works. In hitting it with a hammer, all I have managed to do is get the initial sandy outer coating off. Now you can see the holes, but can't see the metallic flaking throughout the pieces in the picture. They are magnetic in places and I've never encountered a metal like this one before while relic digging. My son who studied Geo science thought it could be a meteorite, or magma. Anyone have any ideas

 

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[Terry Soloman]

It does not look like a meteorite, but the photo is so small it is hard to really tell.

 

[lv2sign804]

 

[lv2sign804]

The last 2 pics I brightene up using the flash, but they appear much darker than what you are seeing in the pictures.

 

[BosnMate]

It looks very much like a clinker out of a boiler, or slag of some sort. Just from seeing your fingers in the photo, it looks like it's a bit large for a clinker out of a regular forge, but more likely from a larger boiler fire firebox.

 

[lv2sign804]

We live in an old farmhouse built in 1848. Wood,at one point coal was used for heat. We dig up coal a lot, and one of our fire places still has a coal burning insert in it, if that's the name of it. The big piece is 6" tall by 5" wide. I've never heard of a clicker..so thank you for the information.. Looks like I can toss it back out side then :-)

 

[Terry Soloman]

Looks like Basalt. It is not a meteorite.

 

[lv2sign804]

Thank you for your thoughts as well. Both the clinker and basalt could fit. I just looked both up, and both fit this piece. The coal burning, but also the basalt with living along the York/James River, and 60 miles from Richmond. My son told me that he thought it could be magma because it can be found in Richmond. In thinking of another
description for what I found to maybe determine which it is, I can only think of the rust. It's starting to rust over where I chipped it. In some of the holes in the back, it has silvery Gray ,very smooth areas. Some holes look like swiss cheese while others are tiny. Hope that helps

 

[RvPrepper]

I got one of those too....Slag

 

[lv2sign804]

Thank you all for your thoughts about what it could be.I appreciate it!