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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on November 30, 2014, 07:11:59 pm

Title: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zuma on November 30, 2014, 07:11:59 pm

I took some youngsters metal detecting where
I think there may have been an old time cabin.
Down by the creek bank we found this???
At first I thought it was an old plow share.
It's not, it's cast iron. I'll make some comments
about the piece if some one doesn't recognize it.
I am leaning towards a hunk of a pot bellied stove?
Zuma

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on November 30, 2014, 07:56:23 pm

Cooking or wash pot?

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: DC on November 30, 2014, 08:22:41 pm

Is it a really big atlatl point >:D

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: JoJoDapyro on November 30, 2014, 08:35:31 pm

A toilet?

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: mullet on November 30, 2014, 08:59:36 pm

A cooking or wash pot that has been run over with a disc.

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zuma on November 30, 2014, 09:55:11 pm

 :D great guesses.
Here are some more clues.
The claw marks are cast in the iron and all go in the same
general direction.
The rim tapers from left to right and is overhung a bit.
There seems to have been a hole cast (see half of it).
Perhaps for a bolt.
The circle to the extreme left shows an area where the
thinner side may have been mated to another section.
If it is a weapon DC, I think you would have to drop it
from a tree on an animal's head or backbone.
Zuma

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: bowsandroses on November 30, 2014, 11:32:46 pm

It were a wee leprechauns gold pot the hole was to hold the handle. Then some big bad fella stole his gold and the wee little corker got so angry he broke his pot.

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: osage outlaw on November 30, 2014, 11:38:36 pm

Even though its cast iron I'm still guessing plow blade

(http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/fimage/lincolnimages/ardrey012c.jpg)

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zuma on December 01, 2014, 10:15:04 am

osage, that would be cool if it is a plow share. It would be very old.
I hope I can find more stuff around where I found it.

Humm, there was this the other day bow----

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: osage outlaw on December 01, 2014, 10:15:50 am

Are you the double rainbow guy  ;D

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zuma on December 01, 2014, 08:50:49 pm

Quote from: osage outlaw on December 01, 2014, 10:15:50 am

Are you the double rainbow guy  ;D

insufficient data
Zuma

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: osage outlaw on December 01, 2014, 09:28:03 pm

go to youtube and look up double rainbow guy  ;)   

Title: Re: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zuma on December 02, 2014, 10:24:52 pm

Nope, not me. Although I have many double rainbow videos.
Zuma