Can anyone identify this?

[Huntertread]

I found this in a place where I typically find arrowheads and am wondering if anyone has seen anything like it before. Has the weight of clay:

 

[JustUs4All]

That looks like a geofact that has had inclusions of a different material either leached or abraded out of it.

 

[bigewalksalone]

It might be a nickel. maybe..lol

 

[Anvil Head]

leaverite

 

[JustUs4All]

You are correct of course Anvil Head but I have lots of interesting rocks that I have not left there and still enjoy looking over them and trying to remember where I was when I picked the up.

 

[Anvil Head]

I'm just as guilty. Wore out many jeans pockets toting neat rocks. Learned early on not to wear cargo pants. My grandaddy was a geologist and successful prospector. He taught me the term "leaverite" (course I snuck a lot of them home anyway).

Buddy of mine got hooked when I took him over to Graves Mountain to hunt rutile, kyanite, and quartz crystal. Made a real addict out of him. He decided he liked the tumbling game and still does. From the look of the OP's rock, it'd be a mud maker in short order. Don't blame him for picking it up - I would have as well.

 

[Huntertread]

Thanks for the feedback and new vocab words Anvil Head and JustUs4All! Obviously disappointed its not an actual artifact but still cool and we'll still keep it around.

 

[JustUs4All]

I have some very similar to that where the holes go all the way through, some with several holes. I just couldn't help but bring them home.

 

[Anvil Head]

I have a few chunks of "fossilized" termite tunneling that had apparently tumbled down a stream or two before reaching a backwater sandbar. I tried slicing one to make a large glass plate display (sort of like a big slide). It got pretty messy/muddy under the wet saw but turned out ok. Gifted it to my old entomology prof at UGA a good while back (pre-digital) so no pics.