What is it ..... a Meteorite?

[Ed SW Fla]

A customer brought this into my store for me to ID.

Was dug out of a man's yard about 30 years ago in an undeveloped area of Fort Myers. Anyone know what this might be?

Can anyone suggest a forum I could contact to post photos for an ID?
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[Butch in Colorado]

I have never, ever seen a meteorite that perfectly spherical. The larger ones typically have a pronounced cone shape from where they entered the earth's atmosphere or they are broken into shards, fragments and such.

I have seen a number of meteorites and checked them with my MXT and they were constantly reading in that severe negative region of the scale.

I have a few links at home I can send you but it looks like you have a big iron ball there and not much else.

If I had to attempt a guess, I'd say it may have been used as ships ballast.

Tell them to, or put it through an electrolysis bath and get some of the surface rust off of it. Maybe getting some of that off can help in identifying it. I'd be interested in what those rings are.

 

[Ed SW Fla]

.... why would you use iron in a salt water environment when good heavy non rusting rocks would be more clean, less expensive to obtain.

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Butch in Colorado]

Flame groves? Could be a cannon ball. (As Vern has pointed out.)

Meteorite link.

http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Book-Identification.html

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Ed SW Fla]

... I remember reading about when they put roads in from here to Miami years ago .... late 1800's early 1900's..... , they had to use dredges to pull (borrow) spoil from the swamps to build up the elevation to make roads. They used big machinery track and floating ... that may have needed counter weights to keep them level on the soft roadbeds they were making / digging from the swamp mud.

I'm thinking the mystery item is someting from that process.

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[BJ in Okla.]

Kinda looks like yours...

 

[Cierlast]

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[BJ in Okla.]

At the store...

 

[BJ in Okla.]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[BJ in Okla.]