Wkyfossils Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Hi I found this piece in middle Tennessee at the lake and its very odd,heavy,and different would luv any thoughts second picture of bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossiling Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Can you put a ruler so we can know the size of these objects? As for my input, I believe the round hole in the middle of the first object makes it man made. What do you guys think? Keep looking! They're everywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wkyfossils Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 Hi appreciate it but both pics are of same object second is the under side of the first pic I'll start using measuring tools for future thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cck Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Looks like concrete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnesota Nice Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 X2 Concrete... Frango Ut Patefaciam...I Break in Order to Reveal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Could you take photos of the inside of the hole ? "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I don't know about the composition, but it looks like some sort of display base or stand. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 It is an umbrella stand made of concrete. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhw Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 If that's a TV controller next to it, which I think it is, would be for a very small umbrella! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Given the size (first picture has it next to a TV remote ) it would be way too small to hold an umbrella. But perhaps a base for something. I think the second picture is the top, smoothed over and the first shot is where it was poured into a hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 OK I missed the controler, not for umbrellas. The hole could be where a piece of rebar was in the concrete for strengthening. Like in a bridge. Or where a pipe went through. Still seeing concrete. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhw Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 The bottom (if that's what the smooth side is?) Looks polished. Not what you'd expect from poured concrete. I'm leaning towards decorative stand of some sort. Does the hole go all the way through? Maybe an aquarium piece of some sort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 1 hour ago, jhw said: Maybe an aquarium piece of some sort? Good call...I agree. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 It's an artifact, I agree. The lower surface (as the base) shows clearly that the support has to be a non-adherent, uniform, hard material, such as glass, which holds the successive layer pouring with the hole in the middle, mimicking an aquatic concretionary form, or something like coral (I could see the septa), familiar to fishes. I'm wondering, why someone could put this "thing" at the lake in middle Tennessee? Trying to make some confusion? " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 All kinds of weird stuff finds its way into water sheds. Somebody might have purposely dumped it there or used it as a fishing weight or who knows how. But I have found junk in lakes and rivers that I have no idea how it got there. Maybe you can use it as an unusual display mount. Be creative! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wkyfossils Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 Hi everyone I had to repost this because I don't believe I had the right pics now i believe it can be better analyzed I found this by the lake in middle tennessee and am really curious about this object on the base of the heavy object are strange circles cracks crystals and a white powdery substance around them the powder reminds me of a calcium mineral and there is what looks like a little bone in the side please help its bugging me thanks alot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 I've merged your posts - no need for another one on the same item. 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...
Wkyfossils Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 Thanks wasn't sure how to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 I agree there look like to have calcite, thought i'm not an expert, and something caught in the side of it. Maybe someone took mud and used to make an artifact for the decoration of an aquarium. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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