Atifact/Geofact

[sophia2]

I found this the other day digging at my artifact site. Its made of stone and it could be petrified wood. It is 2 inches long and 1/16 thick. The sides are really parallel. I thought it was made of bone at first. It really caught my attention when I found it because it was so thin.

[drdave514]

I'm not seeing an artifact there but it's very cool. It does look like wood so if it's stone then I'd say petwood is the answer. I've never found anything like that around this region.

[Marshall Ellis]

Yep it petrafied wood. We find lots of it at our East Texas artifact sites. When a chuck of pet wood is reduced it comes apart in rectangle slabs of all thicknesses. Yours is not shaped, just a waste chuck.

[sophia2]

Thanks for the input guys. Petrified wood is very rare in my region. It could be a piece of pigmented slate?

[OneOneNiner]

Nice piece of pet. Got some good color there.

[dirtscratcher]

This may a be a long shot, but the one side looks like it may have had some graduation marks on it at one time. A 100+ years ago Stanley and others made small folding scales out of ivory. If it were broken and lost when new, it may have aged to something that looks like that. It looks about the right width and thickness. The back side looks more like jagged ivory than stone. They were also made of boxwood which is a very dense wood as well.

[PA Eric]

i find this where i hunt in south east pa, my thought are on the animal line.