✅ SOLVED 1st find, to big for pocket!!

[ga/digger]

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Holy crud that's a monster you must have dug all day to get that out. Sorry no info on what it is though interested to find out.

 

[taz42o]

Nice pot. Do they make maple syrup in your area?

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[Tony in SC]

This is not your average wash/cook pot! Very early 1800's? Going by the size and the fact that I don't see any handles, it was built into a brick cooker. On large farms/plantations the kitchens were seperate buildings and would have a pot like that built in. Would be used for rendering, cooking and sometimes laundry. Usually a syrp cooker would be shallower. Tony

 

[ga/digger]

three days! had to float it out of the hole.

 

[ga/digger]

thank you tony. Found it in my back yard near a creek. The hole was over 4 ft deep! Waiting for the water to drain out before i check the hole.

 

[releventchair]

Looks to have been in good shape when buried. Hmmm.
Neat find!
Hope it had real expensive company .

 

[ga/digger]

I'm in NE ga. we have pine trees.

Nice pot. Do they make maple syrup in your area?

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

But you do have corn mash to boil? ;-)

 

[BosnMate]

Might be a hog scalder. When a hog was/is killed, they are placed whole in boiling water, and scalded, then the hair is scraped off rather than skinning it. Or your find could be for making soap, in fact it could have been used for a lot of things, but there is one caution. Most of the old hog scalding pots have the bottom broken out of them. That's because water freezes in the winter, ice expands and bingo, your pot is ruined. So it needs to be cleaned up and put somewhere that it won't get water in it and freeze. The first photo shows a syrup boiling, hog scalding setup:
Next the hair is being scraped off.
And finally, the knife or scraper used to do the job.
On additional caution. It doesn't take a lot of freezing water to ruin your pot. Just a little will freeze and take the bottom out of the pot. I've seen it happen.

 

[ga/digger]

Looks to have been in good shape when buried. Hmmm.
Neat find!
Hope it had real expensive company .

I found it right side up and it was within a half inch of level. how would it get that deep and stay level?

 

[taz42o]

I'm in NE ga. we have pine trees.

I looked to see where you were from but did not notice the ga. in your name.
I guess sugar kettle or crawdad pot would be more likely in your area, but tony is probably correct.
I like charlie's idea though.
I would make a fire ring /stand for it. Something like this one...

 

[Mastiff4me]

Whoa! Nice pot.

 

[olroy70]

They used pots like that for making soap, rendering lard, and many other things. They also washed clothes in them. be sure to leave it upside down, because a freeze WILL knock the bottom out.

My mom used one like it for years, when we were on the farm. She passed at 95 in Sept., but I remember helping her almost every fall. Not much wood to heat with, here in West Texas!!

Great find whole!!!

 

[pescadore]

That's a whopper !!! Congrats on the find !!

 

[DCMatt]

Wow! How cool is that!?! Never seen one that size come up in one piece. I'd like to nominate you for banner just for the effort to get it out of the ground.

DCMatt

 

[ga/digger]

thank you all for the great support. now for the bad news...... I found another one 8 feet away. Anyone know anybody in the athens ga area that likes to dig?

 

[olroy70]

I used to live NE of Atlanta. As they were developing the area, they did uncover a few stills. My kids playing in the woods found one that was pretty fresh. Find 2 or 3 more, and start looking for copper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ga/digger]

Wow! How cool is that!?! Never seen one that size come up in one piece. I'd like to nominate you for banner just for the effort to get it out of the ground.

DCMatt

I really need to work on my plug cutting technique.

 

[cw0909]

i think thats the type of pot, used by some of those roadside stops, that had the boiled peanuts
cool find, wonder why bury it instead of scrap it