fifbrindacier Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 7 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: What's bad about them? No fossils? No, it's only because of its aspect. It's sometimes used for construction. 1 "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...
Carl Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 On 8/5/2017 at 9:39 PM, ynot said: All look like iron concretions. They are very seldom magnetic. They do not look like coprolite to Me, but @GeschWhat or @Carl may feel different about that. Sorry, I see nothing convincingly coprolitic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I concur with Carl. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillymellow Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 I promised grapeshot. I still have not found the one I was talking about, but I found a nice broken one and two smaller specimens. All found near San Antonio, and not garluche. I hope I will find the other one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 That really looks like a concretion to me. I have many that are perfectly round. Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 I agree with Lori, they look like concretions. Grape shot was made from lead balls, not iron. Iron is to hard and would damage the cannon bore, eventually causing a catastrophic failure on the cannon. 2 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...
fifbrindacier Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 I also agree with Lori and Tony, concretions may be perfectly round. 1 "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...
chillymellow Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 Okay, you folks know more about this stuff than I, so dang, could be! The smaller ones I was never too sure about. And I never had anyone check out this larger one. But it is very similar to the one I still haven't located... As I said, that one I took to the UTSA Center for Archaeological Research, and had one if their curators give me their opinion. I spoke with Anne Fox and she identified it as grapeshot. She seemed genuinely interested in the artifact and informed me that the site where I found it, Shavano Creek, was a location where the early Texans had skirmishes with the Mexican Army. That piece of 'grapeshot', if it is grapeshot, is a bit larger but similar to the one in the picture. Looking at this one, though, I feel there are some differences that you folks may find obvious. I hope that I can find the one I was told was grapeshot so I can gather your opinions! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 just another shot for the grapeshots image fro here 2 " 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...
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