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This is a very interesting bead, but I cannot help identify anything about it. I am not familiar with the material, and it has evidently been out in the weather for a long time. So I cannot say that the 'ironstone' reddish appearance is its original color or not. The bead hole is large in comparison to the thickness of the bead walls, but the bead does not appear to be made of glass -- or is it? The hole is irregular as if made by drilling from one end and then from the opposite end, as in hand-drilling a stone bead. Glass and clay would not have been drilled in that manner.
To me, it looks like the stone from Petra, but I doubt that it came from the Jordanian desert. I am just no help on this. I hope someone else can identify it.
Anna.Thank you . it is a stone. i wrote agate but i think it is bauxite or firestone, semilar to arrowheads in sahara. the work technic i know it too. the hole is large because it is made traditionaly, to go inside the stone, the hole has to be bigger in the beginning. thoes kind of stones could be 10 or 1000 ds of years. all is original, i even did not wash it and sand is still on it.
thank you for your help. maybe someone als can help us too
I noticed immediately the resemblance to my hand axes and other Stone Age tools from the Jordanian desert. It is more damaged by the weather than the chert or quartz from which the ancients made their tools 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. So yes, I agree that it may not be agate.
If you post a question and a photo on beadcollector.net someone might know.