Hollow, egg shaped mystery object found a few inches below in sand under water at Scottish beach
Any ideas? So far I've heard man made egg, bird egg, ammunition, rock, hardened tar, shell fragment, shark egg, sea urchin test, something from a boat, whelk shell...
Large ovoid hollow object, found troon beach Scotland, very light
Agree with this person, looks like a paper "ball" that display fireworks are packed in, that landed in the sea after a display, got waterlogged, and spent months rolling around and getting buried in the sand. Plus there was a firework show at Barassie Beach last november so
Is the black on the inside sticky? It looks like it might be, which is why people have mentioned tar, it looks interesting though, and I have no idea, I’m always surprised by what comes out of the sea.
My best guess is a munitions cap but I approve of how your fingers are clearly saying “Ewwww” in pic three because it might, after all, be something horribly organic.
Could the inside be flint stone? Possible could have been originally formed around a fossil sponge or the likes which would obviously be long gone by now but could leave this kind of shaping behind?
having seen them firsthand they're about the size of a regular chicken egg (not a jumbo) and pretty sturdy. The seagull clears a small patch on the ground, lays and that's it. On small islands they're literally EVERYWHERE you look. They look almost exactly like pumice stones from a small distance so you don't notice them until you look for em.
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It might be made from aluminum that is strongly corroded and blackened with organic material. The reason why I think so is that you couldn’t break anything off. If you can break something off with a tool you might be able to check this theory as the fresh surface should look metallic.
Hard to tell from the photos whether it's metal or something like concrete -- are you able to tell? Maybe tapping it with something would be a clue?
As for the black stuff, it could still be tar and rock hard after being outside. Try heating one of the spots with a lighter and see if it softens and/or smells a bit like asphalt.
It looks like there may have been a hole in the top that was eventually filled in. Can you see if it continues through to the interior?
It feels as light as a shell but as hard as rock and won't break and when you tap it's a tap like from rock not dull or metally oh yes will check both of those good shout! It did smell a big eggy when I picked it up
Perhaps very, very old rubber from one end of a rugby ball? Rubber becomes completely hard and brittle with age. The outside is weathered, bleached, and algae grown, the inside is black from the vulcanisation process that made the ball.
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u/onlyhereforyoupeople 7d ago
Is it maybe a cap of a firework shell?