huge cooking pot

[hmmm]

for some reason the pot was smashed and placed under a huge bolder, i'll take a camera out there and photo it, the big question is , who did it.
any one know how long iron will last.
i took this piece to try get it dated,I will bring it back to the site. the pot would be about 3 feet wide and 3 feet high, it has no legs but has the spot for the handle.
funny thing about Canadian heritage laws, this will never be a heritage object, a heritage object needs to be older then 1849. that means in 100 years the pot would be about 150 years old and still not a heritage object.. if it where 150 years old now, it would be a heritage object. but in 100 years from now , it will have to be 250 years old, to be a heritage object. 8)

 

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[duggap]

I have hunted civil war artifacts for over 25 years and I have found lots of pieces of cooking pots over the years. The mystery was how or why they broke them. Often times, in winter quarters, they would put pieces of iron pot in the bottom of the fire pits to hold heat and allow for baking bread. But it is almost like they broke them on purpose. Maybe they used them for artillary practice.

 

[Ammietuar]

maybe the boulder was "placed " on top of the pot.. like "hey Bill, lets see what happens when we cook dinner under this unstable looking overhang!?".. maybe who done it is still there sitting under that rock waiting on their dinner to be done...find any bones?

 

[jopher]

In my part of the globe, folks used to (and might still) take a large cook pot into the woods in the early spring to boil down maple syrup ??

...Maybe witches...........Eye of newt....wart of toad.....thousand pound boulder??
Whoa! Ill have the Biggie size Stone Soup!

 

[BuckleBoy]

I have hunted civil war artifacts for over 25 years and I have found lots of pieces of cooking pots over the years. The mystery was how or why they broke them. Often times, in winter quarters, they would put pieces of iron pot in the bottom of the fire pits to hold heat and allow for baking bread. But it is almost like they broke them on purpose. Maybe they used them for artillary practice.

I've dug many cooking pot fragments during my housesite hunts over the years... This wasn't just a CW thing, for sure. I have no idea how or why the pots were broken. Most of the pieces are hand-sized or palm-sized.


-Buckleboy

 

[flyinguy]

i have theories. possibly they left them with water on a very cold nite. ice will break any thing it is confined in. or maybe they did what i did. i put a 12" c.i. skillet in my wood stove to clean it. clean all right. in two pieces. probably un- even heating. well, duh! i knew that. i'm an o.k. welder. or, the husband didn't like the possum stew and smashed the damn pot!

 

[Montana Jim]

It is odd to find such pieces... odd to me anyways.

I find broken chuncks of pot-bellied stoves like that. Is it the plow that breaks them up? What about where there were never any plows? Could it just be extream temps?

 

[BuckleBoy]

It is odd to find such pieces... odd to me anyways.

I find broken chuncks of pot-bellied stoves like that. Is it the plaw that breaks them up? What about where there were never any plows? Could it just be extream temps?

Yeah. It's a Really good question! I've dug them out of wooded sites that have been wooded for a Very long time... That stuff don't break easily--and especially into such small pieces.

 

[hmmm]

It's very odd, all the peices are there , most are bigger then the one i found, all are placed under the bolder, locked in for ever. it could be from the 1800's logger/prospectors. i would say they broke it on purpose ,stacked them and put the bolder on the pile.

 

[stefen]

Work crew got pissed off at the cook

 

[Monty]

Possibly remains of an old still that was wrecked by Revenooers? Or, if Civil War, maybe they just had to move fast and light and didn't want the other side to get it? Monty

 

[ivan salis]

look about as money was often stashed in old iron pots when hiding it

 

[sniffer]

just to let you know cast pipes like skillets and crocks are easily broken with a hammer. That's how plumbers remove cast pipes to replace them or add on to them. I'd imagine extreme changes in temperature would do the same

 

[EDDE]

old bent iron pots

 

[PBK]

Are there any caves in the area? I've seen a number of very large iron kettles that were used to extract saltpeter from cave bat guano for use in making gunpowder during the Civil War. In particular, I recall several around Boxley, Arkansas, and some were said to have been broken up by invading troops. Note the size of the kettle in this photo.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-9445

 

[Montana Jim]

He's prolly finding this stuff near his caves... British Columbia. Think "Dem Bones & Boxes".

 

[Gypsy Heart]

 

[bill gent]

depending on how big the rock was perhaps vandels or bored kids

 

[Findone]

Where I was raised, there was an old lady that live down the road from us, that would wash her clothes in a big cast iron pot, that was sitting on a bed of hot coals. She would stir them with a big stick that was shape almost like a boat paddle. Every kid around thought that she was a witch.
The pot was just the right size for cooking children. LOL
Leon

 

[flyinguy]

funny!