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Just what the heck is this? At first I thought it was metal and maybe a cannonball or something but I’m no so sure. It’s about 3” diameter and is only slightly magnetic, a strong magnet will attract it if close. Scratching it doesn’t appear to reveal any shiny metal. It really looks like a tomato turned to stone or something. There are tons of very old Indian ruins all around my land, mostly the Zuni and Anasazi. I actually found this just outside of a cliff dwelling half buried in the dirt. My first thought was cannonball since the conquistadors did terrorize the Zuni Indians with heavy artillery around the year 1500. But it dosn’t look like any pictures of cannonballs I’ve seen. this was also a major volcanic region of New Mexico with the last eruptions occurring around 10,000 years ago. Not sure if it’s volcanic in nature.
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I’ve been slightly obsessed for a long time now with finding a Whitby cannonball nodule good enough to put the hours of prep work into. I have given up while trying to split many, I have split a lot of empty ones, I have chipped a load while trying to split them. I do have a nice eliganticeras nodule that could potentially polish up but the shape just doesn’t lend itself. I found this at the weekend at Runswick Bay and while it would have been nice to have a split nodule with the positive and negative, I could see the potential in this. The actual ammonite is just a crushed up pyritey mess, but there’s a lovely shiny impression lurking below. So far I have uncovered around half of the impression on top and polished up a very small patch on the side, but it’s slow going. I’m trying to avoid using any power tools for the polishing (because dust) and have a decent selection of wet and dry paper (down to 600 grit). I was wondering if anyone with experience of these cannonballs could tell me how fine you need to go with the wet and dry to get a really nice shine, or if there’s something beyond that I should use?
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Thought this would be an interesting one for anybody overseas, who has never heard of Yorkshire’s Golden Cannonballs. Theyre only found in the UK along the Yorkshire coastline. With a 1/15 chance of having something inside, it’s safe to say they can be quite rare, and are always sought after. More often than not, they either contain one, or multiples of Eleganticeras ammonites inside. I’ll never tire of finding them. Theyre found in the shake jet rocks, and take hours to polish up the iron pyrite to give them their golden glow of you like. Here’s one I recently prepared.
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