✅ SOLVED Whatsit?

[J.Cohoon04]

Found this when out MDing yesterday, really light for its size, and I haven't the foggiest what it might be...

 

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[smokeythecat]

Old core drill. Any mines around? also some of the old carbide batteries looked something like that.

 

[J.Cohoon04]

Not sure about the mine, but gives me something to look into! Will look into the battery thing as well... Thanks for your assistance!

 

[Broken knee]

I would agree on the battery part. HH
BK

 

[J.Cohoon04]

Either of you know where I could possibly find pics of the battery components? Although, with the area that I am in, I could possibly see where it might be a core sample.

 

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[mohawkman4081]

Did you find it with your detector? It looks like bone.

 

[J.Cohoon04]

Yeah, picked it up on the detector, although it's not solid metal. There seems to be just enough metal content to set it off.

 

[recondigger]

It's a carbon rod from the center of a battery

Dig until your arm falls off

 

[J.Cohoon04]

Must have been one heckuva battery!

 

[surf]

 

[trikikiwi]

Another possibility is, a rod from a carbon arc lamp.

Mike

 

[J.Cohoon04]

Thanks for all of your guys' help, it would make the most sense for the location and conditions that this is part of a carbide battery! Kind of cool to think about something like this being in the dirt near my place!