Fossil find from behind my house.

[Rockbass6]

Anyone good with fossils? I found this rock the other day, it has small shapes in it pentagons, and hexagons. Looks like a bee hive, but I think it is coral from the old ocean from many years ago.
I live no where near the ocean, Maybe 300yrds from lake erie. A woman found a starfish fossil a few months ago, so maybe this is from that? I don't know.

Here is what the back looks like.

 

[thefishguy7]

Okay Oddball...where are you?

 

[sostoudt]

encrusting sponge fossil?

 

[Rockbass6]

I was thinking sponge, I have some other finds, sometimes when I am bored on a weekend I like to look along the shoreline or in fields and look for nice looking aquarium stones for my tanks, sometimes I run across stuff like this,I do have a nice pointed tooth, and some stuff the indians left behind, but not much. I just like to go to clear my head. I have some old bottles and fishing floats too, even found a sturgeon and a bass boat after a storm once.

 

[iloveoscars702]

looks like a sponge to me. at first i thought it was just a rock lol

 

[Rockbass6]

looks like a sponge to me. at first i thought it was just a rock lol

Yeah I know, the picture isn't the best, but its the best I could get as far as detail goes.

 

[Oddball]

looks like a weathered Petosky stone (fossil coral). If the pits don't go all the way through, it should grind and polish nicely.

 

[Rockbass6]

looks like a weathered Petosky stone (fossil coral). If the pits don't go all the way through, it should grind and polish nicely.

Do you know how I could grind and polish that? I don't want to mess it up, its pretty neat. Or do you know a place that could clean it up a little?
I find fossils all the time around here and I have no idea what they are. Mostly shells and little critters sometimes they are on pieces connected to chert.
I have these two teeth as well, I think the one is a deer, but the other I think could be pretty old, or not even a tooth at all just an just a rock that looks like one. I'll post some other shoreline finds too, I am lucky to live in a place where I can find some pretty cool stuff.

Here is an old bottle I found.

Here are some artifacts from the lake shore, I always think its sad when I find them how they got chased out of town, I don't think all the points are arrowheads, again I am no expert, just like to find aquarium stone and run across some cool stuff in the process.

I have about a dozen rocks with holes drilled in them, maybe beads, if anyone is interested I could take some pics and upload them, I find alot of stuff.
Basically anything that falls off the bank or washes up.
I have some skinners and other big flint or chert artifacts from the indians as well if the thread takes off I can post pics. It is the photo lounge after all.

 

[Oddball]

Check for a local lapidary society. Alot of them are in your area. Several have their own meeting places with shops that can possibly do the cutting, forming, grinding and polishing for you. I'd offer to do it on my eqpt but, we're packing to make a state to state move and all of my eqpt is broken down and packed up.

 

[Rockbass6]

Check for a local lapidary society. Alot of them are in your area. Several have their own meeting places with shops that can possibly do the cutting, forming, grinding and polishing for you. I'd offer to do it on my eqpt but, we're packing to make a state to state move and all of my eqpt is broken down and packed up.

Thanks for the help oddball. Good luck with your move I hope it goes well. I'll take it to them and see what they say and hopefully they can clean it up real nice.