For your viewing pleasure: some sort of broken cast iron plate.
Context: Found a couple inches down in the front yard of a rural West Virginia farmhouse built in the 1900-1910 timeframe. There was also 19th-century activity at this location--the story goes that a cabin stood on the same site before the current house. I have found an English-made flat brass button and numerous cut nails in the yard, which seem to validate the claim of a previous structure (current house constructed using only modern wire nails).
Pictures, inch ruler for scale.
This side has four ridges running across it.
Ridges traced in red
Other side. There is a lip along the vertical edges
Thickness
Anyone have a guess as to what this cast iron chunk was part of? My suspicion is that it's part of a stove, but let me know what you think.
Context: Found a couple inches down in the front yard of a rural West Virginia farmhouse built in the 1900-1910 timeframe. There was also 19th-century activity at this location--the story goes that a cabin stood on the same site before the current house. I have found an English-made flat brass button and numerous cut nails in the yard, which seem to validate the claim of a previous structure (current house constructed using only modern wire nails).
Pictures, inch ruler for scale.
This side has four ridges running across it.
Ridges traced in red
Other side. There is a lip along the vertical edges
Thickness
Anyone have a guess as to what this cast iron chunk was part of? My suspicion is that it's part of a stove, but let me know what you think.
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