✅ SOLVED Oddly colored metallic stone.

[jnicholes]

I am sick with Covid, so I went out metal detecting in my yard today because I was very bored. While I was searching, my detector started going crazy. I dug down about 5 inches where it was at, and I found this weird stone-like object. I thought to myself, “this can’t be it,“ however, the detector said otherwise. I brought it to the concrete sidewalk, set it down and put the detector over it, and the detector was going crazy. This is indeed the object I was picking up.

I verified that it’s not magnetic, but it does not feel metal either. However, the detector is still picking it up.

Any idea what this is?

 

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[invent4hir]

Pot metal(?). Go to an open spot in a tree ring or garden, scan it with your detectors, and if free of metal, lay your mystery piece there and scan again. How did your detector react?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I think pot metal also.

 

[jnicholes]

OK, I did what you guys said, and put it on a stump and ran the detector over it after I verified there was no metal in the stump. First you need to know that I have a bounty hunter IV. It’s a cheap detector, but it’s what I started with.

According to the manual, on tone discriminate setting, it responded very strongly with a low tone, indicating either gold or nickel according to the manual.

This is indeed what I was picking up.

Anyway, you both could be right about it being a pot metal.

 

[invent4hir]

Thanks for posting your result. It has been awhile since I detected a piece of pot metal - but your description sounds about right.