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Went on a kayaking adventure today and discovered a new location chock full of historic artifacts.
Here's a stoneware mystery artifact I spied in the riverbank. I thought initially that it could be a jug or crock, but it turned out to be something much more unique:
It is a Victorian-age stoneware poultry fountain or "chicken waterer". These devices were developed in the mid-19th century by farmers to allow their chickens to drink. The jug was filled with water and then placed in a shallow dish. As the chickens drank the water level would slowly go below the hole relieving the water pressure and refilling the dish up to the level of the hole but not higher. Modern devices of plastic and glass are still used today and operate in much the same way.
Here are some of the other artifacts, note the early brass camera aperture and 1883 pattern glass insulators:
Here's a stoneware mystery artifact I spied in the riverbank. I thought initially that it could be a jug or crock, but it turned out to be something much more unique:
It is a Victorian-age stoneware poultry fountain or "chicken waterer". These devices were developed in the mid-19th century by farmers to allow their chickens to drink. The jug was filled with water and then placed in a shallow dish. As the chickens drank the water level would slowly go below the hole relieving the water pressure and refilling the dish up to the level of the hole but not higher. Modern devices of plastic and glass are still used today and operate in much the same way.
Here are some of the other artifacts, note the early brass camera aperture and 1883 pattern glass insulators:
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