Need help determining what Ive found

[sigjojo]

I found this last night in Acworth GA. It registered 99 on my Garrett AT PRO.. Ive since ran it under a XRAY gun and it came back as stainless steel 316... Can anyone tell me what this might be?? I'm in a heavy civil war area so who knows.. It might be trash as well.. It was found buried about 6" underground

 

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[DARKCYDE]

I'm probably wrong, but to me it looks like something that was thrown into a fire pit at some point. The heat could have made it malleable enough where it got extremely distorted from whatever it once was.

 

[sigjojo]

Sounds reasonable to me

 

[kcm]

Interesting. Strange how those striations are so perfectly spaced.

 

[Bruce R]

Looks like a blob of melted aluminum.

 

[hvacker]

I'd re-post it in the fossil forum South of here. Reminds me of a tooth from a really big animal.

 

[Bruce R]

Tyrannomadeofmetalasaurus- Rex ?

 

[Icewing]

Decepticon droppings.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

As Bruce already mentioned... melted aluminum.

Dave

 

[cudamark]

As Bruce already mentioned... melted aluminum.

Dave

Except that he's already stated that it's stainless steel. Maybe a melted canteen?

 

[Bruce R]

You'd need to get stainless up to about 3800 degrees to get it to melt like that, and when you do it cools off black. I'd like to see a size to weight comparison.

 

[ARC]

Except that he's already stated that it's stainless steel. Maybe a melted canteen?

I like the way you think. heh

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

If it truly is stainless steel it is from after 1890.

 

[GeoW]

Melted 3 ringer..


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[cudamark]

You'd need to get stainless up to about 3800 degrees to get it to melt like that, and when you do it cools off black. I'd like to see a size to weight comparison.

So, you have doubts that it's truly stainless? Quite possible, I guess, but, if it is, how else would it get in that condition unless it was melted?

 

[Geochem]

Test its hardness and specific gravity

Do the old Mohs hardness scratch test.

With a knife try to make a slight scratch and see if it is soft enough to be grooved.

If the knife has no real effect other than to the oxidized coating then it will probably stainless steel or the like metal alloy.

If it is easy to scrape and make an indentation and groove than it could be aluminum or the like.

Next would be its specific gravity.

Measure how many milliliters (1 ml water = 1 cc water) it displaces in water and then weigh.

Stainless steel will be about 8 times heavier than water; aluminum will be about 2.7 times heavier than water. Do you have a milliliter graduate or syringe that you can calibrate something like a bracket or straight sided cup or glass? (i.e. 20 ml additions in glass and with black marker make line on outside for each 20 ml mark, etc.)

 

[Geochem]

Could this be part of satellite debris?

 

[micmccon]

Was this found near power lines? I found something similar but was iron/ steel. Looks like the small end is wire and the large end might be a heavily corroded Swage fitting. If near power lines, perhaps it melted due to poor connection (high heat) or short circuit?