Lead????

[xtrain]

Found this on what used to be a major highway back around 1920 or later.
Location is Northern Michigan. It is now a orv trail and is at a bridge over a large river.

 

[agbkyle]

Hard to say. I seem to find melted blobs of metal all the time. Either from cars that were burned or burned down buildings.

 

[billiard rich]

Lead melts at a rather low temp. When I was a kid we'd melt hunks of lead and pour it into soldier molds. We cooked the lead over a regular kitchen stove. Does it feel kind of soft?

 

[txrider]

Meteorite?

 

[simonthesearcher]

bit black for lead i would say

 

[DougF]

Seems to have a greenish color - possibly copper? What color is it if you file off the surface oxidation?

 

[xtrain]

Lead melts at a rather low temp. When I was a kid we'd melt hunks of lead and pour it into soldier molds. We cooked the lead over a regular kitchen stove. Does it feel kind of soft?

I can bend the very outside edges. Here is a couple more pics one of the back and one to copare to quarter. It is also very thin.

 

[RickO]

Pick up a lead test kit at the hardware store.. should tell you quickly. HH RickO

 

[xtrain]

Meteorite?

Really???

 

[txrider]

Really???

If it's bendable, I doubt it could be a meteorite.

 

[MCH02]

I was going to post nearly the same post. I dug up to "blobs" that look about the same, but about twice the size over the weekend. Mine seem to hard to be lead, but Im not sure, when I scratch the surface it gets very shiny.

 

[xtrain]

I was going to post nearly the same post. I dug up to "blobs" that look about the same, but about twice the size over the weekend. Mine seem to hard to be lead, but Im not sure, when I scratch the surface it gets very shiny.

I figure it is lead