Dragon Scale Stone
Measures: 5" Long
Weighs: 0.10lbs
 
"Dragon scales is a trade name for iron nodules with polygonal patterning found in the Hell Creek formation of North Dakota. These stones form alongside of Dinosaur Fossils from the Cretaceous era that include powerful animals such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex & Triceratops. Often times they are found lying right up against these extinct giants.  They are primarily iron oxides with a siderite core and a limonite skin colored darker by manganese oxides. When trying to decipher the metaphysical properties of a new stone, we look at similar historical uses, energy signatures, and the experiences of those first working with it.
Although they form alongside fossils, they are not fossils. Concretions and nodules often resemble shells, scales, or bony plates and are commonly confused with them. These body parts are all used by animals for protection. Traditionally iron rich rocks were given qualities culturally associated with the masculine like security, confidence, and vitality because of the metal's connection to tool and weapon making.
Historically people believed that the meanings of stones were encoded on them symbolically. Many of the dragon scales are covered by a polygonal patterning with an eye like center. Eyes usually signify warding away negativity and both spiritual and psychic development.
The iron nodules form individually and in beds between layers of sediment. The polygons inside are revealed when the outer skin around them bursts forth exposing this unique natural pattern. While the signatures for spiritual protection are more obvious, individuals who tested the dragon scales expressed similar themes around revealing connections. Their experiences ranged from modulating their sensitivity, changing how they were connecting energetically to the world around them, to an awareness of damage in the energy body from inappropriate connections with other people" - Christopher Matthews (Stone & Metaphysical Specialist)
 
Concretions and Nodules in North Dakota
Siderite or "ironstone" nodules are heavy, dark brownish black nodules that occur as small isolated spheres, through complex rounded forms, to thin beds tens of feet long. They often form an erosion-resistant armor on badland slopes, where their black color contrasts sharply with the gray, clayey, eroded sediments out of which they weather. Siderite nodules are typically found in lignitic bentonitic, sediments and are often concentrated along certain horizons. They are especially common in the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.