The Mysterious Spirit Stone

 

This is called a Spirit Stone and it is an excellent example of such. See the round thing in the center and knob at the bottom?

Spirit stones are said to be formed as mineral laden water runs through sandy ground and forms around a grain of sand or small object.

From a web site: "The stones are concretions, rocks that form in layers around some object, like a grain of sand. The stones are over 10,000 years old . from quaternary sediments, which means less than 2 million years old."

Rather like pearls, a beauty formed around a grain on sand. In this case, it might be a grain of volcanic or glacial origin.

This particular stone was found on an Alaskan beach. Sorry, but that's all the information as to location that I will give because I have seen photos of people removing buckets full of them.