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Crampons are good for mountaineering, but are overkill for around here. There are much cheaper options that you can attach to your boots that will let you walk on ice. REI has something called Yaktrax that work great. Here is a link:http://www.rei.com/product/760281

I agree with Dave, it looks like it is from a turtle. It is very flattened and has the pattern of the shell on one side. Sea turtles are found along the Jersey coast, so this may have been from one that washed ashore.

Sorry, I was replying to the original post, I wasn't disputing your id. Actually, the speciman does look very similar to a crinoid calyx (such as those pictured in Steve's post), but shape and large number of the columns suggest a tabulate coral. Also, end shows the honeycomb pattern that...

These fossils are Devonian in age, about 400 million years old. The barnacle shaped ones are horn corals. The shell is a brachiopod. The last is a honeycomb coral called Favosites. They have eroded from hills in New York and north Jersey, and were washed down by ancient streams, or pushed...

Although it looks a bit like a marl pit, it is a natural spring. Here is a quote from a Garden State Environet article " One spring-fed pool in the Winslow Wildlife Management Area, a short walk from the Egg Harbor River, was famed throughout New Jersey as the mysterious Blue Hole...