Will you play "What the hell is it?!" with me?

A lamp shade or a wasp nest.

Wasps nests? Do you have a better picture?

Lamp shade is a good guess! No, that’s the only pic he got of it.

I don’t think it’s a wasp’s nest. It looks more man made to me. I’ll try to get a hold of him and ask him were on the 5 acres he found it.

It reminds me of the hide of an armadillo. You can even see the bands around its middle.

It’s very interesting. Do you have anywhere around there where you can take it to?

a degraded flower pot or something.

Some type of disintegrating fabric.

Those tiny holes are from thread pin holes. The thread was the first to disintegrate. Looks like what’s left may be some type of plastic-like fabric.

@snowberry has it. Here’s another picture.

@snowberry @thorninmud I thought it looked like an armadillo but do they live in her area? and aren’t they nocturnal?
<== too lazy to wikipedia “armadillo”

@drhat77 Yep

Yeah, we have armadillos. They started showing up a few years ago, making their way north from Texas. We often see them smashed on the roads. I think people hit them on purpose. Sad. Sick.

HOW interesting though. I would have never guessed. It’s strange that it’s so white. I have GOT to go find it now!

They may be nocturnal @drhat77, but that one would be daid so…..permanently nocturnal.

Looks like a ceramic beehive.
[oh well, I should read more carefully. but it still looks like a ceramic beehive, especially rotated pointy side up.]

It doesn’t appear to have a short enough radius curve to be either a lampshade or a basket (that can be carried easily), so my guess is going to be “part of the end of a baby’s bassinet”.

@CWOTUS it looks like it could be! But I don’t know how big it is. I think the consensus is that it’s a degraded armadillo hide. I’ll try to find it today and get a different perspective.

It’s a shoe lace cover flap from an old golf shoe.

I dunno WTF that is but holy moly there’s an entire online community dedicated to vintage golf shoe flaps!

Armadillo? I was convinced it was something sewn on a Singer sewing machine, which just goes to show that a) I know nothing about arnadillos and b) I wonder if the singer was a tenor . . . .

I vote for armadillo too.

It looks to me like something constructed with needlework of some kind. Very interesting.

Oh! You found my old chicken chasing helmet! Thanks!

I am still amazed how @snowberry made that armadillo connection.

Thanks @Dutchess_III

@drhat77 I thought it looked like an armadillo but do they live in her area? and aren’t they nocturnal?

You think that looks like it’s still alive…?

@FutureMemory I was looking at it on my phone. I thought it was burrowing into the soil or something.

From the color it looks like a decomposed armadillo hide, probably a nine-banded because the alternative is a three banded one, and there are more than three bands.

The key to the three-banded armadillo’s defense mechanism is in its shell. A combination of bone and a tough tissue coating, its shell is called a carapace (which, by the way, is the same term for a turtle’s shell). About 2,000 tiny scales, or scutes, are composed of the protein keratin and make up the carapace. The carapace is divided into the anterior scapular shield over its forequarters and the posterior pelvic shield over its hindquarters. Between those two shields are a series of bands that vary depending on the armadillo species. These softer bands look like an accordion and allow for mobility. In most armadillos, the two shields are attached to the skin on all sides.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/mammals/armadillo-ball1.htm

Maybe it’s a dead early white people.

Sorry about the above. Tried to edit it away but no longer can. Sometimes my fingers have no filter and type what they want.

@Sueanne_Tremendous lurve for the no filter. You should see the eyebrow raises I get at work

I thought is was great @Sueanne_Tremendous! :)

I suddenly have the urge to play soccer.

*football