Meteorite in tree?
Discussion
Upinflames said:
I wondered about it being a cannonball too. There was a bit of activity around here in the civil war but that was 200 years or so before the tree existed. I don't think there was anything cannon related in mid Cheshire in the early 1800s
A cannonball could presumably have been sitting in the soil for centuries. Then as the tree grew, the tree's edaphoecotropism* picked it up.* Thanks oakdale (although I may not have used that correctly)
Edited by SpudLink on Tuesday 10th May 14:36
SpudLink said:
Upinflames said:
I wondered about it being a cannonball too. There was a bit of activity around here in the civil war but that was 200 years or so before the tree existed. I don't think there was anything cannon related in mid Cheshire in the early 1800s
A cannonball could presumably have been sitting in the soil for centuries. Then as the tree grew, the tree's edaphoecotropism* picked it up.* Thanks oakdale (although I may not have used that correctly)
Edited by SpudLink on Tuesday 10th May 14:36
Most likely is simply a lump of anything ferrous. Being encapsulated in a tree will tend towards a spherical or ovoid shape.
Are there any iron age settlements near by? We found a meteor-wrong (as the local expert declared it, ho ho! 
)and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
)and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
Edited by Bill on Wednesday 11th May 08:13
Bill said:
Are there any iron age settlements near by? We found a meteor-wrong (as the local expert declared it, ho ho! )and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
)and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
Edited by Bill on Wednesday 11th May 08:13
Narcisus said:
Bill said:
Are there any iron age settlements near by? We found a meteor-wrong (as the local expert declared it, ho ho! )and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
)and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
Edited by Bill on Wednesday 11th May 08:13
Bill said:
Are there any iron age settlements near by? We found a meteor-wrong (as the local expert declared it, ho ho! )and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
Yes there is, big iron age fort about 4 miles as the crow flies and some earthworks very close by. )and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.Which is still pretty cool.
ETA trying to remember who it was. I think it was a teacher in the local school that's a science academy and does a geology GCSE. IIRC we got talking at an open evening. I'd have thought it's also worth asking a local uni.
Edited by Bill on Wednesday 11th May 08:13
vaud said:
Bill said:
...and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
I've been on a night out in Hull as well.Size isn't given but it looks far too small to be a cannonball. I thought possibly a musket ball but they were lead so not magnetic. It also looks wrong for that.
I'll go for meteorite.
Having had a look at the meteorite photos and info in the link above, I am going with ‘not a meteorite’.
But, too big to be a normal musket ball and too small to be a cannonball. Perhaps a ball from a canister shot.
Someone might even have out it there, say in the fork of the sapling and the tree grew around it. Whilst metal detecting I have put bits of random iron in forks in saplings.
But, too big to be a normal musket ball and too small to be a cannonball. Perhaps a ball from a canister shot.
Someone might even have out it there, say in the fork of the sapling and the tree grew around it. Whilst metal detecting I have put bits of random iron in forks in saplings.
Simpo Two said:
vaud said:
Bill said:
...and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
I've been on a night out in Hull as well.Size isn't given but it looks far too small to be a cannonball. I thought possibly a musket ball but they were lead so not magnetic. It also looks wrong for that.
I'll go for meteorite.
Simpo Two said:
Caddyshack said:
I have posted before in this thread that very early musket balls were of a metal alloy, which might be magnetic.
Why would that be, seeing as lead has a very low melting point and therefore easier to make musket balls from? And also denser = more damage. Simpo Two said:
Caddyshack said:
I have posted before in this thread that very early musket balls were of a metal alloy, which might be magnetic.
Why would that be, seeing as lead has a very low melting point and therefore easier to make musket balls from? And also denser = more damage. Edited by Caddyshack on Saturday 18th June 06:21
Ayahuasca said:
Simpo Two said:
Caddyshack said:
I have posted before in this thread that very early musket balls were of a metal alloy, which might be magnetic.
Why would that be, seeing as lead has a very low melting point and therefore easier to make musket balls from? And also denser = more damage. 
Simpo Two said:
vaud said:
Bill said:
...and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
I've been on a night out in Hull as well.Size isn't given but it looks far too small to be a cannonball. I thought possibly a musket ball but they were lead so not magnetic. It also looks wrong for that.
I'll go for meteorite.
Well it is but there’s always Bradford on levels of awful.
lrdisco said:
Simpo Two said:
vaud said:
Bill said:
...and while I can't remember the details it was decided it was likely iron age slag.
I've been on a night out in Hull as well.Size isn't given but it looks far too small to be a cannonball. I thought possibly a musket ball but they were lead so not magnetic. It also looks wrong for that.
I'll go for meteorite.
Well it is but there’s always Bradford on levels of awful.
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