27th May 2009, 09:58 AM
Thankyou for all the suggestions! An interesting little thing, i think you'd agree :face-approve: I love it when the visitors bring something to get your brain working.
I don't have the exact weight of the thing, but it didn't feel right, if you know what I mean. It was a little lighter than it looked.
Diameter is about 3cm.
Good plan about showing it to a geologist; I'll be dropping over to the BGS soon, so I'll remember to take the pictures with me.
The resons we thought it might be slag are that
a) it was lighter than it looked (what a strange turn of phrase)
b) the surface is quite hard, and a bit like an opaque glass
c) there seem to be tiny bubbles visible on the surface.
But then the bubbles could be the result of a thick layer of glaze over a ceramic core (or stone), bit like faience?
An elaborate pot-separater for a kiln, troll? Well, people have done stranger things
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Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
I don't have the exact weight of the thing, but it didn't feel right, if you know what I mean. It was a little lighter than it looked.
Diameter is about 3cm.
Good plan about showing it to a geologist; I'll be dropping over to the BGS soon, so I'll remember to take the pictures with me.
The resons we thought it might be slag are that
a) it was lighter than it looked (what a strange turn of phrase)
b) the surface is quite hard, and a bit like an opaque glass
c) there seem to be tiny bubbles visible on the surface.
But then the bubbles could be the result of a thick layer of glaze over a ceramic core (or stone), bit like faience?
An elaborate pot-separater for a kiln, troll? Well, people have done stranger things

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Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.