Trash or treasure?

[Jcostin]

I was at a local park this morning/afternoon looking for enough change to buy myself a new digger since the one I have from Garrett isn't all it's cracked up to be when I passed over this item about 8-10 inches down...almost knocked my headphones off! I'd love to hear it's part of a cannon...but I can also take the news if it's part of an old sewage system!

I have this posted on another forum too, but no luck so far. Air tests 85-87 on my AT Pro.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Jcostin wrote:
> I'd love to hear it's part of a cannon...but I can also take the news if it's part of an old sewage system!

Sorry to have to say, the perfectly-flat areas on one of its "axial" edges means it is not from a cannon's tube.

Still, it's one honkin' hefty piece of solid-cast brass/bronze! That, along with the presence of the large raised lettering indicates it's not a piece of a "common, ordinary-everyday, low-value" objext. I'd go back and hunt that site hard, because there ought to be more such pieces there. I can assure you, it is not from a sewage-system.

 

[recondigger]

I think it's part of a pipe

Dig until your arm falls off

 

[cudamark]

Maybe part of a bell?

 

[lab rat]

Maybe part of a steam boiler?

 

[Jcostin]

I'm trying to find out if the old school had brass/bronze lamps or something.

 

[surf]

Last time I sold brass, I got $1.45 a pound. What's it weigh?