TennisTort Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Hi I have had this.....something since I was 7 when I found it in a peice of rotten wood. To me it looks like some sort of Tooth or possibly a Arrowhead, it is All wood but I really don't think it is just Nothing it is very interesting please let me know your thoughts (sorry pics are to big to upload so I have yo post the links here) http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2aig176&s=8#.VHQn98so7qA http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2iav30p&s=8#.VHQojcso7qA http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=280mxki&s=8#.VHQpD8so7qA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Welcome to the forum! Im not sure… Unlike anything I have ever seen before. Can you upload some top view images of the specimen if possible? Sorry for not being much help, but is it definitely wood? In my understanding you found it in wood... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 The object it's self is wood ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I am posting the pictures here for ease of viewing. In my opinion, it is just an interestingly shaped piece of wood. It looks like part of a branch where it went into the trunk. I have found similar pieces. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I am posting the pictures here for ease of viewing. 2aig176.jpg 2iav30p.jpg 280mxki.jpg In my opinion, it is just an interestingly shaped piece of wood. It looks like part of a branch where it went into the trunk. I have found similar pieces. Regards, Yep, I've found this too. A knot in wood that has been eroded by decay and shaped by water action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I completely agree with Fossildude 19 and tmaier (except for the weathering since this was extracted from rotting wood). I have seen these many times. The axis is the knot (really a branch base embedded in the tree's trunk) and the regularly spaced ridges are what is left of the annual rings of the tree. That's why the branch and the ridges are basically perpendicular. I would even go so far as to say this is very likely to be a conifer of some kind based on this specific relationship. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That was my impression to, but if it's stone, or if something about it leads her to believe the center is stone, we're all back to square one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 It is almost certainly a pine knot (from within the trunk, where a branch grew out). Does it float or sink in water? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MgTattooer86 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 looks a bit like a pine knot to me. If you show them a transitional, they'll ask for two more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 In Florida, knots like this one would be called 'lighter pine.' It was/is dense and resinous so it burned brightly. http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 In Florida, knots like this one would be called 'lighter pine.' It was/is dense and resinous so it burned brightly. And when lighter pine ages, the resin becomes rock hard and you can't drive a nail or screw into it. Somebody used that stuff in some of the studs in my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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