[Rockhounds] What is the weirdest thing that you found while rock hunting?

[Alan Silverstein]

> What is the weirdest thing / object you saw while fossil / rock
> hunting?

Probably overall the weirdest ever, just last month, was a tiny little
metal ID tag (see RoadId.com) that somehow broke off a bracelet at both
ends, far down a remote gravel road in Utah (along the Kokopelli
bike/car trail).  Contacted the owner, returned it to them by mail
(under 1 oz), and it had only been on the ground for SIX DAYS!

Other personal candidates:

- Busted-up (shot up?) pane(s) of 1" thick blue glass, also out in the
  sandy Utah desert.  Collected 140 (ONE HUNDRED FORTY) pounds of it to
  grind into "beach glass" in my tire grinder.

- Rusty old sheep bell in Wyoming, hunting petrified wood with landowner
  permission in a vast area where he runs sheep.  Returned it to him, he
  said, "Oh, that must be from my dad" based on the style.  "I'll fix it
  up and put it back on a sheep."  (Really?)

- Rock hammer -- my own!  never leave it sitting on a bumper -- three
  weeks after losing it and buying a replacement; in sight but not
  obvious along a gravel road in rural eastern Colorado.

- A short chunk of railroad rail, heavy (45 lb/ft), miles from the nearest
  track, half a mile from any road, also in rural eastern Colorado.

Cheers,
Alan Silverstein