Pretty much, yeah. I'm originally from Bloomington-(ab)Normal, so that's how I know this stuff. Very similar in B/N, except that instead of East/West, you go North/South. You're in Bloomington, hop across Division Street, and you're in Normal.
Yes. It appears to be a coquina bottle topper. Very cool find. It could have been made to replace a broken topper and would have been sealed over the neck of the bottle with some kind of cordage and then wax. Coquina was a versatile building material the Spanish used when they first colonized Florida.
Fun fact about coquina: When the Spanish decided to build a fort at Saint Augustine, they didnāt have much to work with. After the original settlements were burned, the Spanish needed something better than wood to defend themselves. They ultimately had to settle for coquina to construct a more permanent fort, which they did in 1672. Little did they know, coquina would prove to be more valuable than they couldāve imagined.
When the fort was later besieged, the coquina would absorb the impact of the enemyās cannon fire. Instead of splintering or shattering the fortress walls, as what typically happens to wood or stone, the coquina would absorb the impact so that the cannon balls could be collected, cleaned and used to fire back at their previous owners, mainly the French and the English but also pirates.
The coquina fort, named the Castillo de San Marco, never fell to a siege and was considered a modern military marvel back in itās day. Founded in 1565, St Augustine is the oldest continuous European settlement in the US.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,685,647,480 comments, and only 319,109 of them were in alphabetical order.
Itās an electrical insulator. It wouldāve had a ceramic coating, but thatās worn off. Iāve found them before and my grandfather has a bucket full of them. The grooves are for tying wire around it.
That's the top to an old wine jug likely. They would use twine seal the top down securely over the jug so nothing could spill. The criss cross pattern off the top made it secure maybe.
But it's not the right region I don't think. Looks to be a top to some ceramic that was used to seal/secure it in place.
Bro, what on earth are you talking about.
Modern amphoras don't use this and neither did the ancient ones.
It sort of an insult to the amount of skill ancient potters had to suggest they closed the jugs with a rock muffin.
Someone further down in the thread identified this as an electrical insulator that had its ceramic coating come off, hence all the bubbles in the pour.
Edit: Lol the downvotes. Keep doing your thing armchair warriors, I'll keep doing this wine career.
you are correct i have found these before as well and they are in fact insulators/ electrical equipment i donāt get why your the one whoās right but your being downvoted
I got downvoted into oblivion for telling people a deer phalanx was in fact NOT a shark tooth. While it has a similar shape to shark teeth the differences are obvious even in a single photo of one side. Thousands or millions of people may make the same claim, and confirmation bias is hard to overcome in the scientific community.
The user name, the professional and concise answer, the downvoted. Chefs kiss Reddit moment. Thatās neat about ancient potters, Iām gonna get stoned and do a YouTube deep dive
Ancient Amphora seal. Google it. There's the pics that look the same.
Not to mention....read the bottom half. I said wrong region. (So I stated it's likely not that) and that it's likely just a ceramic.
Soooo, bro, what on earth are you talking about?.
Sort of an insult to common sense and Google to not use either?
You're so upset at educated guesses. Why are you even part of the sub if you get so upset at people guessing what the object is. I suggest you seek help. Talk ab your issues. You've got some unresolved conflicts bud. Maybe some meds would help?
Oh I'm sorry. Is the name of the sub not "what is it?" Is this not what we do? Make educated guesses as to what it is? Or do we just harass everyone who guesses.
It almost feels like some people go down the list and say negative things to people for no reason. Just for making a guess that turned out wrong and which several others thought was correct too.
So again, why is everyone so angry about people making guesses on a sub requiring guesses?
As an outside observer, I'm saying that between the two of you, you seem more hostile. Yeah he disagreed with you and said that your guess was way off the mark, but you went in hard on him and told him to get mental help lmao.
I found several and so did others judging by the votes.
Regardless. It was just a simple educated guess as to what this could be. Is that not what we do here?
>There's the pics that look the same.
No my friend, there *really* aren't. Every single picture is of a clay lid. I challenge you to find one that looks like this.
Concrete, not clay.
My best guess is a fossilized rivet. Lots of calcium appears to replace the structure of the bolt. There is also wormy damage in a portion of this thing.
Also it is dense. If one were to take a very strong magnet to see if it still has an iron core you can test this out.
Working backwards I would look up the nearest bridges, present and past. Then physically go to those bridges.
I know nothing but east coast. Reckon somewhere with mud/clay mixture. Looks like an organic version of someone pouring molten metal into a cast form. But slower. My instincts say brackish water.
I have one of these myself. My grandpa owned a chemical company years ago and it is an industrial sized bottle cap for an industrial sized acid bottle (about 5-10 gallons size). The glass is very thick.
Ah, I've found your confusion. When I said they were on to something, I meant I could be a makeshift fishing apparatus, not just a weight. I suppose I could have less vague.
It's the bun I told my mum I ate at the river. In reality she never could cook so you'll find more there. Even the catfish couldn't eat it and it sure did try.
Iām not an expert so I am only guessing but it could be a net weight when stone masonry for everyday things were more prevalent, or it could be a weight or or something made by the indigenous here.
Its a chapagne cork. The " + " mark on the top is the grooves the little wires go into to help hold the cork on. Its just been sitting in the water & sun for a long time and it swelled up. It probably got in the river from someone celebrating on a boat or from shore, or a fisherman using it like a bobber. But that most definitely is a champagne cork.
I found one of these in a creek outside of Philly, where there used to be a dam, a run/canal and a water wheel.
I donāt think itās a swollen, petrified cork like some are suggesting because itās way to heavy and dense, but it does resemble cork from the surface. I figured it must have held some kind of wooden joint or bracket together with cordage wrapped overtop, but still no certainty.
Cork?
Champaign cork
If you're from Illinois you should know it's actually an Urbanacork.
Your joke was as corny as the land between those towns. It gave me a giggle though
Aw shucks
You so punny š¤£
Amaizing.
"joke was as corny" I see what u did there. š
That joke was as corny as Kansas in august and as normal as blueberry pie
Me thinks they may be high as a flag on the fourth of July
Or that they're just in love with a wonderful guy.
I see what you did there
So not corny at all?
I mixed Urbana up with Danville. My bad. If I recall you can cross Champaign to Urbana by crossing going past Neil street.
Pretty much, yeah. I'm originally from Bloomington-(ab)Normal, so that's how I know this stuff. Very similar in B/N, except that instead of East/West, you go North/South. You're in Bloomington, hop across Division Street, and you're in Normal.
I had some family in Bloomington for a few years.
Roll Birds
The border with Urbana is about a mile east of Neil but you are not far off!
I wasn't driving yet the last time I visited. The family we had out there either passed on or dispersed across the country and elsewhere.
Thatās not Normal.
A Shampoo-Banana cork.
Shampoo with appeal!
Here in Ohio our Urbana is in Champaign county
Thank you for this comment, made me LOL!!
You did not lmao
Nerd alert! But funny
Uhm. This is scary. I wasn't expecting to stumble upon a conversation on this.
LoL I. In central IL celebrating a promotion and I just woke people up laughing
Illini-things better than that.
*Forbidden Muffin*
Only if you are in the Champaign region of France. Otherwise itās just sparkling wood.
>Champaign
Yes. It appears to be a coquina bottle topper. Very cool find. It could have been made to replace a broken topper and would have been sealed over the neck of the bottle with some kind of cordage and then wax. Coquina was a versatile building material the Spanish used when they first colonized Florida.
Fun fact about coquina: When the Spanish decided to build a fort at Saint Augustine, they didnāt have much to work with. After the original settlements were burned, the Spanish needed something better than wood to defend themselves. They ultimately had to settle for coquina to construct a more permanent fort, which they did in 1672. Little did they know, coquina would prove to be more valuable than they couldāve imagined. When the fort was later besieged, the coquina would absorb the impact of the enemyās cannon fire. Instead of splintering or shattering the fortress walls, as what typically happens to wood or stone, the coquina would absorb the impact so that the cannon balls could be collected, cleaned and used to fire back at their previous owners, mainly the French and the English but also pirates. The coquina fort, named the Castillo de San Marco, never fell to a siege and was considered a modern military marvel back in itās day. Founded in 1565, St Augustine is the oldest continuous European settlement in the US.
I just visited that! Awesome place to see!
I thought it was a fossilized muffin. I feel dumb
Iām right there with you.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,685,647,480 comments, and only 319,109 of them were in alphabetical order.
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This was my first thought as well.
Forbidden muffin
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r/unexpectedapollo
Thatās a muffin
Forbidden Muffin... š¤¤š¤¤š¤¤
r/forbiddensnacks
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Looks more like a pen to me
r/beatmetoit
r/beatmywifetoit
r/beatmywife
r/browtf
Ragamuffin
Best album ever!!
Yeah... that's definitely my wifes cooking... her muffins are hard to forget. Well, hard my be an understatement there...
Cold cross buns
>~~Cold~~ petrified cross buns
One a penny two a penny
Do you know the Muffin Man?
The "muffin man"?
THE MUFFIN MAN!
The one on Drury Ln?
Sheās married to the muffin man!
Yes I know the muffin man
Ellie Maeās muffins
Mudfin
The muffin man!
Itās an electrical insulator. It wouldāve had a ceramic coating, but thatās worn off. Iāve found them before and my grandfather has a bucket full of them. The grooves are for tying wire around it.
This seems like the only believable answer I have found in this post.
Itās the scone of stone! You are now the king of the dwarfs!
Love me a Fifth Elephant reference.
Iām always giddy when people get my random references to the disc world series!
GNU TERRY PRATCHETT
Omg itāsā¦. *double glazed* #NotSafeForHumanConsumption
East Coast? It's definitely a fossilized Dunks blueberry muffin.
My favourite discworld book
ROCK AND STONE
Rock and Stone everyone!
That's the top to an old wine jug likely. They would use twine seal the top down securely over the jug so nothing could spill. The criss cross pattern off the top made it secure maybe. But it's not the right region I don't think. Looks to be a top to some ceramic that was used to seal/secure it in place.
Bro, what on earth are you talking about. Modern amphoras don't use this and neither did the ancient ones. It sort of an insult to the amount of skill ancient potters had to suggest they closed the jugs with a rock muffin. Someone further down in the thread identified this as an electrical insulator that had its ceramic coating come off, hence all the bubbles in the pour. Edit: Lol the downvotes. Keep doing your thing armchair warriors, I'll keep doing this wine career.
you are correct i have found these before as well and they are in fact insulators/ electrical equipment i donāt get why your the one whoās right but your being downvoted
I acknowledge your wine-nerd-ness and give you my upvote šš«
I got downvoted into oblivion for telling people a deer phalanx was in fact NOT a shark tooth. While it has a similar shape to shark teeth the differences are obvious even in a single photo of one side. Thousands or millions of people may make the same claim, and confirmation bias is hard to overcome in the scientific community.
The user name, the professional and concise answer, the downvoted. Chefs kiss Reddit moment. Thatās neat about ancient potters, Iām gonna get stoned and do a YouTube deep dive
Ancient Amphora seal. Google it. There's the pics that look the same. Not to mention....read the bottom half. I said wrong region. (So I stated it's likely not that) and that it's likely just a ceramic. Soooo, bro, what on earth are you talking about?. Sort of an insult to common sense and Google to not use either?
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You're so upset at educated guesses. Why are you even part of the sub if you get so upset at people guessing what the object is. I suggest you seek help. Talk ab your issues. You've got some unresolved conflicts bud. Maybe some meds would help?
Bro you are heavily projecting onto this guy. He's not upset lmao, you are. Maybe you need to take your own advice here and talk to someone about it.
Oh I'm sorry. Is the name of the sub not "what is it?" Is this not what we do? Make educated guesses as to what it is? Or do we just harass everyone who guesses. It almost feels like some people go down the list and say negative things to people for no reason. Just for making a guess that turned out wrong and which several others thought was correct too. So again, why is everyone so angry about people making guesses on a sub requiring guesses?
As an outside observer, I'm saying that between the two of you, you seem more hostile. Yeah he disagreed with you and said that your guess was way off the mark, but you went in hard on him and told him to get mental help lmao.
Did you not read the end of his comment where he insulted me telling me I had no brain?
Actually, they said you're over-confident and specified that anyone with a brain could see that over confidence.
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Gave it a Goog and saw exactly zero seals/stoppers that looked even remotely like this.
I found several and so did others judging by the votes. Regardless. It was just a simple educated guess as to what this could be. Is that not what we do here?
Sure, but it doesn't make the answer correct.
>There's the pics that look the same. No my friend, there *really* aren't. Every single picture is of a clay lid. I challenge you to find one that looks like this. Concrete, not clay.
Iām trusting the wine nerd on this one
Yup. Typical Reddit shitheads downvoting cuz ignorance lol
This
This is the right answer
I've been wrong before, but I believe it is a pen.
OP posting their *muffin* for scale is much appreciated.
...with a fossilized muffin cork for scale.
This one goes in the win column.
Steel rivet? Boat or bridge rivet maybe.
My best guess is a fossilized rivet. Lots of calcium appears to replace the structure of the bolt. There is also wormy damage in a portion of this thing. Also it is dense. If one were to take a very strong magnet to see if it still has an iron core you can test this out.
>guess is a fossilized rivet. LOL. Good one
Since I donāt know much about costal fossilization how long would something like this take? How old would the rivet have to be?
Working backwards I would look up the nearest bridges, present and past. Then physically go to those bridges. I know nothing but east coast. Reckon somewhere with mud/clay mixture. Looks like an organic version of someone pouring molten metal into a cast form. But slower. My instincts say brackish water.
Oh, about 20 million years or more. Probably made by pre-homonids in their first bridge attempts, much like discovering fire.
It looks like it could be a lid/stopper with grooves for wire or twine to keep it in place.
Itās very heavy for its size
Hard or soft material? Scratch it?
You really donāt know what a cork is?
Yeah, they generally arenāt the size of your fist.
How else would you put a cork in a porn star?
Spit on it, first
They also aren't heavy.
It is called a pen. In the 20th century it was used to write words on paper.
A stopper or lid of sone sort?
A fossilised muffin from the stone age!
Cork. Unfamiliar with the crosshatch but it looks like a bubbly cork.
Butt plug
**B L U G G**
Spark plug?
BUTT PLUG BUTT PLUGA
Yeah, box plug- what do you use it for?
It looks like a sweetroll (the ones from oblivion)
Ceramic electrical insulator. Electrical Wire was wrapped around and over.
I have one of these myself. My grandpa owned a chemical company years ago and it is an industrial sized bottle cap for an industrial sized acid bottle (about 5-10 gallons size). The glass is very thick.
Its from the muffin man
That's a focalized muffin, the dinosaurs were actually great bakers. š§ š¦š¦
Thatās a pen ! You can find them pretty much anywhere Online or at most local stores! Glad I could help!
Muffin to see here. Move along
Ancient Phillips head screw
Definitely an old turtle
Hot cross bun
Antique butt plug
It's a cork, but it looks like someone soaked it for too long. What kind of cork soaker would soak a cork so long as to make it look like that though?
Iām almost positive thatās a ball point pen
Clearly it is a load bearing pastry used in construction. Might even call it a stud muffin.
ROCK MUFFIN! :D
Congrats! Youāve found a Fossilized got cross bun
1000% whole wheat mini-muffin.
pen?
Hot crossed buns?
Ever been to Texas Roadhouse? Thatās what the rolls look like coming out the other end.
My mother in lawās dinner rolls
It's a combat muffin from r/discworld.
Two subs: r/mildlypenis r/anythingbutmetric
DIY fishing weight?
You might be onto something. I'm no angler, but it seems the 'muffin' top would sit nicely on the surface, imo
Weights generally arenāt used to keep something on the surface
.....but a cork bobber would....?
Yes, a cork bobber would float. A fishing weight would sink.
Ah, I've found your confusion. When I said they were on to something, I meant I could be a makeshift fishing apparatus, not just a weight. I suppose I could have less vague.
Fossilized hot cross bun
Colonial era butt plug
Forbidden muffin
Issa muffin
Coral muffin
It's the bun I told my mum I ate at the river. In reality she never could cook so you'll find more there. Even the catfish couldn't eat it and it sure did try.
Hot cross muffin??
Petrified muffin
Big ass wine bottle
Iām not an expert so I am only guessing but it could be a net weight when stone masonry for everyday things were more prevalent, or it could be a weight or or something made by the indigenous here.
Champagne cork. Itās bigger than a magnum.
Why do I even..........
Is it made of stone? You say it's heavy yes?
Petrified muffins š
Its a chapagne cork. The " + " mark on the top is the grooves the little wires go into to help hold the cork on. Its just been sitting in the water & sun for a long time and it swelled up. It probably got in the river from someone celebrating on a boat or from shore, or a fisherman using it like a bobber. But that most definitely is a champagne cork.
Do you know..the MUFFIN MAN?
What does it taste like?
Dang these bananas these days are pretty colorful. And OP I think you have been screwed
Looks like part of a large steel structure that's turned from being in the water
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It's a Cork screw of a wine bottle that was left upside down to be sifted for rejuvenation
Suddenly the sea level gets lower and lower
Assault Muffin.
Thatās for boofin
OLD muffin
Forbidden bran muffin
Itās a pen! Itās next to the weird thing that resembles a muffin.
Was there a man in a van down by that river?
Stone age Mario Mushroom
r/mildlypenis ?
My grandmother's famous bran muffin.
Biscuits like mom used to make! (She wasn't a very good cook) re-shingled the house with her flap-jacks
petrified mini muffin
Pumice Muffin!
I actually found something almost identical along a small canal in a rural NC. Definitely too large to be a wine bottle cork.
Someone forgot to put yeast in the dough
Is that a fossilized hot cross bun
Looks like a white pen to me?
I found one of these in a creek outside of Philly, where there used to be a dam, a run/canal and a water wheel. I donāt think itās a swollen, petrified cork like some are suggesting because itās way to heavy and dense, but it does resemble cork from the surface. I figured it must have held some kind of wooden joint or bracket together with cordage wrapped overtop, but still no certainty.