Need Help Identifying an Unusual Find

[SalmoTrutta]

I recently found this piece while walking an eastern NC field that I usually search for arrowheads. I have never found any fossils there, only arrowheads and lots of quartz. The soil is extremely sandy and flat, making it easy to spot interesting things. My immediate reaction to finding this piece was that it could be petrified wood. Although, I’m more skeptical now, recalling having never found any fossilized remains over years of scouring this location. I’m curious as to what this rock could be, where it may have come from, and especially if it could have interacted with the late Paleo/early-mid Archaic indigenous people once living here. Would welcome and value anyone’s opinions or insight on this. Thanks

 

[Missouri -- Ma Betty]

I recently found this piece while walking an eastern NC field that I usually search for arrowheads. I have never found any fossils there, only arrowheads and lots of quartz. The soil is extremely sandy and flat, making it easy to spot interesting things. My immediate reaction to finding this piece was that it could be petrified wood. Although, I’m more skeptical now, recalling having never found any fossilized remains over years of scouring this location. I’m curious as to what this rock could be, where it may have come from, and especially if it could have interacted with the late Paleo/early-mid Archaic indigenous people once living here. Would welcome and value anyone’s opinions or insight on this. Thanks

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Don't know! But looks like petrified wood--could a furious storm with heavy wind & rain have deposited it there after it ended? My family visited THE PETRIFIED FOREST & if the piece is stone & not wood than either someone travelling across the sandy land could have lost or dropped it there! Probably a mystery that will go unsolved! Neat FIND nevertheless! Congrats! Ma

 

[fwcrawford]

Looks to be petrified wood to me too.

 

[jim tn]

Looks petrified to me. John Edmonton on the Garrett forum, is in Canada and finds pieces like yours frequently, as I recall. HH jim tn

 

[Wild Willy]

Unanimous on petrified wood.