Interesting Discovery yesterday

[axelrich]

Looks like old drilling marks, similar to what was used to set a charge with. Dynamite or black powder? I can't tell by the detail but it could be air-chisel or jack-hammer marks as well. I would guess without context of the surrounding area that it would be more modern than the latter 1700's. Maybe from a previous searcher? The color running vertically down out of the hole in the cracked rock in the first photo resembles aluminum oxide. I heard back in the late 19th and early 20th century that blasting was not uncommon in rock houses on private land. Folks either quarrying their own rock or trying to make use of the natural shelter and make it safer for their live stock to be kept in by blasting out what looked to be loose rock. I guess a Swift Silver Mine searcher could have done the same kind of damage as well. Kind of hard to tell anything without a larger scope picture of the rocks together, if they were together.

That's a good info..

 

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