You never know what you'll find in a mound.
This is best I can tell... A brain mashing iron, ( note, the magnet sticks to it, so it aint from around here, but found here. ), a bysons front tooth and an Early American wall hanging or art. It's a bone fossil embeded in stone. Perhaps deer or rabbit bone. Any guesses ?

There are only two things that we find in ancient camps that stick to a magnate. Meteorite or Magnatite.
If you can write with it on unglazed side of tile or pottery, Magnatite.. If not probably meteorite.. yours looks like magnatite.. I have several nice specimens Ive pulled out of camps... Hope this helps.. Meteorites are worth a fortune so it is always a good idea to find out the difference..

The extra cone there between the cuspids of that molar helps distinguish bison teeth from those of the Cameloids. The tooth appears to be about three inches long and is probably Bison antiquus; that species went extinct some time at the end of the last ice age.

Woolseyman,
R U Sure about the tile test ? I have several different tiles I have tried to write or scratch the back of and each does the same thing... It leaves a bit of the iron behind but it can be blown off or whisped away, nothing remains that is permanent.
Could this be a big piece of Iron oar brought down from somewhere back north east and traded ? How can I tell if is really a meteorite? short of taking it down to UT. Will they really buy the meteorite on site if you let them ?

Redman,

Thanks for the tooth facts, I was gonna trade it for a broke point the day I found it. I had seen many more but none quite the same as that one, so I decided to hang on to it, now I'm glad I did.
I have another tooth I think is from a big cat, if I can find it I'll post it later. Thanks again. Happy hunting.

Natural "magnetite" ( a ferrous material ) comes in varying degrees of consentration right down to Ferrous sulfide which is the same material but degraded and a magnet will NOT react to it.
Not a meteorite, wrong exterior and no witenstrand interior design. Do some Google research on meteorites, very interesting. Meteorite finds HAVE been documented in ancient camp excavations.

That bone might be worth a trip to your local museum for an opinion because its in a limestone matrix. To be entombed in limestone it would have had to be when the limestone was soft or possibly covered by cave flowstone

NO university would give you a single nickle for ANYTHING "on the spot" even if it was made out of solid gold

Hey Hal,

If it's not meteorite and it's not magnetite, what do think it is? I'm looking up meteorites after I send this note. Can you tell I watched the show "Meteorite men" ? On the show at the university the prof. pays cash for space rocks on the spot. I thought it was B.S. One way or another I'm gonna figure out what this rock is. Do You have any contacts at a local museum that might could shed some light on the bone in the limestone ? Thanks for the input.

That piece in the limestone matrix appears to be hollow and may be a dentalium also known as a tusk shell from the Ordovician period, 450 million + or - years old.

Redman,
Your right, it is hollow. Probably not a deer or rabbit bone if it's 450 or so million years old.
I could take some better photos or could take it to someone who can identify it, but is it worth it ? I don't have a COA on anything I have and don't ever plan on getting one for two reasons. It seems crazy to me to pay someone to tell me that it really came out of the ground that way if I'm the one who took it out of the ground to begin with. Secondly, I don't ever plan on getting rid of any of my finds, but I'm always looking for people who are. Don't get me wrong I trade like everybody else, but I've only given away two points ever... one to my Nefew for graduating high school and one to my Mom for turning 75. ( she really wanted one )

Is there a tell tale sign to see if it a tusk shell or not ? I had no idea that thing could be that old.
Thank you for the info

Google ..." DENTALIUM FOSSIL "

Top listing has excellent cross section diagram, other listings more info.

I googled and called a meteorite man based in Dallas. That is where i got my info on the streak test. He was the one told me that only two things stick to a magnate. The streak test he told me to do was on the underside of a toilet lid( cuz he does it on the road at Motels.) Mine have all written on the surface.