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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[Mike in Berks]

i just read this and it reminded me of a day i was searching an 1850's stone farmhouse
Searching the back yard i got a loud,big reading i dug an it's a cast iron skillet
upside down 3 inchs deep I searched some more an i found an 184? lg cent then
the owner asked if i could locate his ground cellar vent pipe i said shur will
i got a reading and he started digging with a shovel nope not there sooooo, he gets
a long metal rod sticks it up the vent pipe and the ground is rising with every shove
up comes the rod wellll, the > vent pipe < was right under the > skillet < i dug earlier lol
there's 1 reason iron was placed in ground hmmm i hope ya find a cache near that

HH 4/DB

 

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[hmmm]

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

the bolder is huge, 2.5 feet wide. definatly not kids, more likly militia. very odd place, i think it is marking something. hmmm

 

[TheYAK]

You are at the end of the rainbow, and someone beat you to it

 

[Harry_Morant]

I take it that the find was nowhere near the coast. Sealer and whalers used to use large pots to render down the blubber into oil. On occasion these render pots would burst due to the prolonged high temperatures. Because they were often temporary structures they often used local rock to build an over up around the pot. The attached picture is of a sealers oven on the coast not far from where I grew up in Western Australia -

 

[ivan salis]

uh plain OLD SALT EXTRACTING kettle (salt was vital) --or a salt peter cooking kettle or group food cooking kettle -- or for clothes washing (boiling to clean em) -- or fat rendering ----big iron kettles had many uses -- they were only used by and large in "set camp" areas -- long term type camps ---many cuz they were dang heavy to tote around -- so union troops if they found one would busted it up -- and hide the iron scraps to keep the metal from being "reused in any way" by the confederate forces

 

[kuger]

I hunt gold rush camps and find the same broken cast iron shards,dutch ovens kettles pans etc.I have often wondered myself why?They are always broken and I dont think it was on purpose.It was hard to come by another one.I was thinking whalers as well.I have seen them 4' tall and wide before in coastal sites.

 

[hmmm]

I FOUND A CAMERA.

 

[hmmm]

WE SAW 2 WHALES, 1 BEAR AND FED THE eagles.

 

[Montana Jim]

Good pics... love the eagles!

 

[cwdigger]

liquor still??

 

[diggergrl]

Reminds me of a book I loved as a child...

 

[hmmm]

liquor still??

I think you may be right, there where many stills hear, rum running to the states from the rugged west coast of British Columbia. hmmmm

 

[CoolFrayers]

"If I had a large enough pry bar, I could move the world."
Pry that sucker off of that pot and see what ya got
(my daily attempt at poetry)

 

[NGE]

Didja ever think that just maybe, the rock rolled, or fell into the pot? T see many other rocks around in that picture.

 

[GL]

Move the rock.
See whats under it.

 

[CoolFrayers]

Move the rock.
See whats under it.

Again:
"If I had a large enough pry bar, I could move the world."
Pry that sucker off of that pot and see what ya got
(my daily attempt at poetry)

 

[hmmm]

i have had experience with the scientific approach.
i have found 32 caves with bones, there is only 1 fully intact body, he got caught behind the blast rock used to secure the contents did not get affected by ocean waves. the rest have been placed, skull and cross bones and leg bones placed on compass bearings.. the scientist say. it is Indians who died of small pox and where tossed in the caves. acums razor, the simplest is the most likely explanation.
a friend found a coin that should have been proof,Francis drake came hear. the heritage branches response was, "had to have fallen out of a coin collection." for 23 years i have been waiting for the scientists to come see what i found. still waiting. yesterday i was told where there was chinese coins found, ill go check for more, if i find a coin older then 1800 , i assure you the heritage branch will just shrug it off.
I went to look for the coins, they where found in a midden behind the winch shead at the old fish camp, the kid of the family found them in the midden. a few years back a developer bought the site, he put in a gas pump and buried the midden, this was a important clue to the history of the area and now its gone..
another example, the last spruce grove on south vi was logged, there was endangered red legged frogs, i filed a formal complaint, the scientist said , they never saw one when they visited the site, so there for they are not there. this site had 400 culturaly modified trees, many where white, Ship masts, old logging ect. the indians said, log it, there is only our heritage there , no heritage violatiion's where lodged, it was probably not even investigated.. I find burial caves and suggest they are not indian and suggest pirates from the 1700's, the indians file a complaint and the gov, Parks canada and the rcmp has spent thousands and thousands investigating me for heritage violations.
I was told by this old story teller the solstice caves where made by the white people who where hear before the indians, there is cave paintings of these people , yet i was told by the cops "stay away from the aboriginal solstice caves".
http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa208/atochaspictures/?action=view&current=willyshort_0002.flv
from a scientific point, where does it end.

 

[ghost_rider]

I would have to agree that they are the remains moonshiners or rum runners. During prohabition the agents would go into these sites and bust up and destory everything, you were asking why they are broken. If from rum runners they are busted up by the agents that found the site. Try checking in the local 1920s newspapers, many times they agents would report their finds to the newspapers who would run stories of the agents making a bust, this was to discourage others from taking up the business.

In our area the agents did just enough work to make it look like they were doing something, meantime the sheriff was operating his own stills!!!!

 

[hmmm]

the pot is better left as is, it looks cool. this handle should be enough for a SOMEONE to figure out who made it. I am going with rum runners, i know where there was one of there still's, still have not gone there with the mxt. its just another adventure, and i am interisted in pre 1849. to find the still it you need to look exactly where it is, you can look every where else, if you dont look under the rock you will not find it.

 

[Old Dog]

Well You will think I'm nuts ,
But a lot of a certain kind of treasure hunters will tell you to photograph it, GPS it, and get a compass bearing on the main pieces.
Check for other metal pieces and do the exact same thing with them.
All this Before you move anything on the location.

They could be KGC cache locators.
Move them without the exact info and a treasure can become a lost treasure.

See,
Told you... you think I'm nuts.

LOL
Thom