[Renfield]

I am acquainted with Dr. Dillehay. Before I got my current job, I worked as a research analyst (fancy name for a principal lab tech) at the University of Kentucky dept. of Forestry. One of my duties was identifying samples of obscure wood. Dr. Dillehay sent over a very strange object that he found at the excavation site at Monte Verde. It had the structural features of a fine-grained softwood, but appeared to me made of lead sulfate, or some other dense, dark metal or metal ore. I never could identify it satisfactorily.

[blam]

"It had the structural features of a fine-grained softwood, but appeared to me made of lead sulfate, or some other dense, dark metal or metal ore. I never could identify it satisfactorily."

Was this a natural or man-made object?