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Hello Tnet friends.
I need some help on an item I found about twenty years ago,,,,,,, We used to cave or Spelunk the caves on Lookout Mtn Tn. The main one we did was the water run off from Ruby Falls. The cave was called Mystery cave and at that time had the 3rd highest underground water fall in the world. Of course we did not know that but we repelled it many times. Little do people know that Lookout mtn in Chattanooga is riddled with caves. We lost our access that we were using when the city fixed the water drainage system off the roads. We knew after our long accent in the cave we were about to the River level of the Tennessee. So we decided to tackle it from the river. Around the base of the mtn are several caves with large openings near the rail road that circles into Chattanooga. While in one of the caves I climbed a crack up towards the ceiling.I placed my hand in the crack for a hold and felt a stick. It was not a stick but this metal thing with wood in the middle. I felt it was used as a torch and crammed into the rocks for people camping in the cave opening . The wood is burned on the end up to the metal. The wood is hand carved at the end.
Now that I am enjoying looking for relics again I found this site and pulled it out for" the what is it" area. Maybe some of these Civil war pros will help with identifying it.
I found this around the early eighty's I guess and I know that the Military Park has since then been able to acquire that area and a lot of Wauhatchie right by it a few years ago. Oh yeah out of those lower caves came Saber tooth Tigers which were sent to the University at Tennessee. The cave bears were to embedded in the drippings from the stalactites (sp?)... Sorry for the long history of the item.
Is it part of a flag staff some kinda ram rod or what
? It is Brass with a plating on it.
Thanks,
TnMountains
I need some help on an item I found about twenty years ago,,,,,,, We used to cave or Spelunk the caves on Lookout Mtn Tn. The main one we did was the water run off from Ruby Falls. The cave was called Mystery cave and at that time had the 3rd highest underground water fall in the world. Of course we did not know that but we repelled it many times. Little do people know that Lookout mtn in Chattanooga is riddled with caves. We lost our access that we were using when the city fixed the water drainage system off the roads. We knew after our long accent in the cave we were about to the River level of the Tennessee. So we decided to tackle it from the river. Around the base of the mtn are several caves with large openings near the rail road that circles into Chattanooga. While in one of the caves I climbed a crack up towards the ceiling.I placed my hand in the crack for a hold and felt a stick. It was not a stick but this metal thing with wood in the middle. I felt it was used as a torch and crammed into the rocks for people camping in the cave opening . The wood is burned on the end up to the metal. The wood is hand carved at the end.
Now that I am enjoying looking for relics again I found this site and pulled it out for" the what is it" area. Maybe some of these Civil war pros will help with identifying it.
I found this around the early eighty's I guess and I know that the Military Park has since then been able to acquire that area and a lot of Wauhatchie right by it a few years ago. Oh yeah out of those lower caves came Saber tooth Tigers which were sent to the University at Tennessee. The cave bears were to embedded in the drippings from the stalactites (sp?)... Sorry for the long history of the item.
Is it part of a flag staff some kinda ram rod or what
? It is Brass with a plating on it.Thanks,
TnMountains
