Strange Balloon Looking Thing

[zzbeekeeper]

Found this in my garden, but have no idea what it is.
I thought it was a fossils and put it up on a fossil forum and been told it not a fossil.

There is a lot of Iron Age stuff in my garden.
It's not slag as I have seen load of slag and it's too light only 20 grams.
Also got nothing from a magnet and metal detector.
Had a good look on the net for burnt and melted glass and it not glass.
The broken bit looks like stone to me.

It doe's look like it's melted.
But it doe's not have any burn marks.
If it was in a fire you would have very small foreign object embedded in it.


Any idea would be helpful.

Thanks

Martin

 

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[sutphin]

MAYBE A MELTED INK WELL FROM SOME SORT OF A FIRE.

 

[cudamark]

Maybe a glob of plaster that broke off the house at some point after it hardened and has since gotten soil stained from it's life in the ground.

 

[zzbeekeeper]

It look shiny as if someone has given it a good polish.
It's brown and the shiny parts are dark brown.
Where it's broken the bit in the middle doe's look like glass.
It could be a melted ink well.
But glass doe's not turn to stone.

I have a wild idea.
In the Iron age and I think stone age, They use to store butter and cheese in pig intestines.
Could it be something like that and the contents have fossilized?
That would answer why it looks like a balloon.

 

[trikikiwi]

I just had a good idea could it be a melted light bulb?

Or, another thought is, a very young geode?

 

[ARC]

Melted Alum... Lead... Or the likes...

AKA... Fire nugget.

Could even be an old burned toothpaste tube... or the likes tube.

 

[DCMatt]

Not metal, right?

Nothing from a magnet or MD, so we assume stone.

Like ARRC, I first thought it was a melted medicine or cosmetics tube. Then I read the description...

Flowlines certainly indicate melting. It does look like it was hollow at some point.

I'm at a loss. Try posting in the Rock/Gems forum.

DCMatt

 

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[trikikiwi]

I think some people are missing the apparent crystalline structure inside the blob.

 

[Crispin]

My first impression is that it is carbon based. In all seriousness, it may be a petrified rodent brain. What appear to be melting lines would be the natural sulcus and gyrus of brain mater.

 

[Honeyman]

It might sound nuts, but I see a chimps face in the 7th picture. Garden ornament of some kind?

 

[Crispin]

It might sound nuts, but I see a chimps face in the 7th picture. Garden ornament of some kind?

I see what you are looking at. However, more like a pig face. Snout sticking out and two holes for the nares(nostrils.)

 

[zzbeekeeper]

I know some who collects geodes and has a large collection of strange looking stones. (All he found by himself)
Me and his son used to play together around 40 years ago.
I will try and see him tomorrow.

 

[trikikiwi]

I know some who collects geodes and has a large collection of strange looking stones. (All he found by himself)
Me and his son used to play together around 40 years ago.
I will try and see him tomorrow.

I look forward to his advice.

Another thought is that it might be a fulgurite.

 

[2Minnesota]

Coprolite?

 

[zzbeekeeper]

I went around but he was not in.
So I left it with his wife and will go back in a few day.

How about a small volcanic bomb?

 

[zzbeekeeper]

I went around today and spoke to Joe.
He had no idea.
Best bet it's and melted inkwell made from Ceramic.


I also asked about his geodes collection and he has given most of them away.
Then he pointed to his flower beds in his garden and there were geodes every where and then I saw the biggest quartz I ever seen in real life.
I think it's a shame he's leaving them around in the garden and not on display.

Thanks for all your help.
If it turn out to be something else I will let you know.