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[jeff of pa]

Another site along my Search area.

Notice the large Rock with the Hole Drilled through it ?
Sits in front of a Stone Foundation

Any idea of Purpose ?

 

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[Jeffro]

I don't know about your area, but out here sometimes they use stones like these for anchors for different purposes. One is to winch small logs uphill with. Another use is for a boom dam, although yours looks like its nowhere near a creek.

 

[jeff of pa]

I don't know about your area, but out here sometimes they use stones like these for anchors for different purposes. One is to winch small logs uphill with. Another use is for a boom dam, although yours looks like its nowhere near a creek.

Definately no where near water

 

[relic lover]

I have seen a few used as decorations on lawns before, I always assumed they were the result of quarrying in an area that was previously drilled for whatever reason.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I used to visit a park that had a rock like that on either side of the road and they'd slide a big log through to bar the road when the park was closed. Wouldn't be something you'd do at a house with only one, though. Hmmmm.

BIG trace fossil.

 

[dano91]

HOW OLD DOES IT LOOK TO YOU IN PERSON?

 

[jeff of pa]

HOW OLD DOES IT LOOK TO YOU IN PERSON?

Very

as menrtioned above it's in the front yard of a Stone Foundation,
of something. I think a home, but not sure.
It's definately home size not a Mill size Foundation.

in the 1870's the houses there were Railroad company homes

 

[MD Dog]

maybe a poormans crane counterweight ?

 

[dano91]

I would guess that the hole was drilled for blasting, then the rock was cut for foundations.
Is the site within say 10 or 20 miles from a major road?

Dano & Yogi

 

[jeff of pa]

it's along a secondary road.

My Father worked in the mines.
I'v seen Blasting holes, & the Cores
From drilling.
I'm not saying your Wrong, Because
it would make sense. However, I could Probaby
fit 6 or more Cores in the hole.

It's close to the size of a Telegraph pole in width.

 

[MD Dog]

The size of the hole is why I said a poor mans crane. I've seen something like this used over seas where they would drill a hole big enough for a large log then place a fulcrum mid length or less on the log and then use the stone as a sliding counter weight that allows the user to lift fairly large loads with very little effort.

 

[Bassfish]

Hole from a water well being drilled. Somtimes they lift them up over the casing if they drilled rock. Just a guess.

 

[dano91]

The size of the hole is why I said a poor mans crane. I've seen something like this used over seas where they would drill a hole big enough for a large log then place a fulcrum mid length or less on the log and then use the stone as a sliding counter weight that allows the user to lift fairly large loads with very little effort.

I would tend to go along with Hobo on this one.

 

[MD Dog]

saw something like this in the middle east for irrigation and contruction.

 

[lonesomebob]

tie your horse or rig to it? see you still have my ring. Bob

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

it's along a secondary road.

My Father worked in the mines.
I'v seen Blasting holes, & the Cores
From drilling.
I'm not saying your Wrong, Because
it would make sense. However, I could Probaby
fit 6 or more Cores in the hole.

It's close to the size of a Telegraph pole in width.

I would agree. Hole is very big. Rock is not easy to drill. We used to drill just big enough for the dynamite.

 

[savant365]

Hi Jeff,

Do you know any history of the location? Could it have been some type of military fort or something along those lines? I was just looking at the pictures and thought that a hole that size could be used to observe a large area from cover. It looks like it is on a hill, does it look down on a valley or in the direction that people would approach the site from? I am totally guessing here but could it have been used as a look out post of some kind? It looks big enough for a man to hide behind and fire a weapon through.

Charlie

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It must be something because this is not natural. Could it be part of some kind of cannon?
A thought I am having is that it is part of a bridge somehow.

 

[dano91]

Well the only other thing I could find resembling your stone would be the stone anchors found at the Bimini road site near Bermuda [possible Atlantian site] I couldn't bring up a pic of them, but they looked very similar to yours.
Dano & Yogi.

ok I found a pic

http://www.mysterious-america.net/bimini-caysal200.html

 

[privet12]

Top cover for a water well the hole is for one of the old long water buckets to go thru. How does that sound.