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any idea what this is?

konsolekonsole Posts: 788 ✭✭✭
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Found this metal detecting. The detector picks it up as a solid coin signal, its heavy (possibly lead?) and about 1 inch long.

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  • budweiserbudgetbudweiserbudget Posts: 34
    It's not a battery connector, is it?
    If it wiggles, it ain't goin' in my salad.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like slag... could the area you found it in offer clues?? Cheers, RickO
  • konsolekonsole Posts: 788 ✭✭✭
    I found it in the sand in a playground. I don't remember how deep it was but I think it was kind of shallow.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    petrified mitten? image
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like either a big piece of lead (I have found them all the way up to about 5-6 lbs in weight!), or slag, as previously mentioned.

    If it's lead, that should be easy enough to deduce with a scratch test. If it shows silvery color and the metal is soft, well, there you have it.

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  • konsolekonsole Posts: 788 ✭✭✭
    I had to look up what slag is and it looks like slag is nonmetallic.
    This item is metallic since the detector gets a strong signal from it.
    It's not magnetic though.
    I used some steel scissors and compared scraping some lead that I had to scraping this and this was much much harder to scrape.

    It looks like it cant be slag or lead.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Slag can be metallic.... there is metallic slag from solder pots/flow machines... as well as from smelting.. definitely can be metallic. Cheers, RickO
  • windwhispersintreeswindwhispersintrees Posts: 605 ✭✭✭
    It may be babbit metal from a bearing. Babbit is a white metal, usually a composition of mostly tin (sometimes lead), antimony and copper.
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