✅ SOLVED Cast Iron Ashtray, is it possible?

[Organicseekers]

Well this thing weighs 3 pounds and looks like a cast iron ashtray, any other ideas would be most welcome.

Found in a field about a foot down. Nothing else around it.





Underneath

 

[kingskid1611]

Looks like a "foot" off of a piece of equipment.

 

[Organicseekers]

Looks like a "foot" off of a piece of equipment.

I thought that at first but can see nothing that would suggest it attached to anything other than the "teeth" inside it.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Maybe a foot from a bumper jack.

 

[HuntinDog]

Do some electrolysis on it and use it for an ashtray.
No one will steal it.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Kind of looks like the bottom of a crankcase off a tractor?
More than likely farm machinery related considering where you found it.

Dave

 

[A2coins]

foot for equipment sounds right

 

[Dzrt1st]

It is the base to a raised pavement marker from the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker

 

[Doubter in MD]

It is the base to a raised pavement marker from the UK.

Great ID!!

 

[Reanm8er]

Welcome and well done, Dzrt1!

 

[ripvanb]

I wonder how it got out in a field? Any roads nearby?

 

[A2coins]

Good ID Ive been watching this one!!!!!

 

[Organicseekers]

It is the base to a raised pavement marker from the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_pavement_marker View attachment 1668508View attachment 1668509View attachment 1668510

What a brilliant ID. Thanks so much for that.

Now I just have to figure out how it got into a middle of a field that is nowhere near a road. The nearest tarmac road is 3 miles away.

 

[Organicseekers]

I wonder how it got out in a field? Any roads nearby?

Nothing nearby at all so now thats the next part of the puzzle

 

[Dzrt1st]

My initial guess would be that it was dug up and hauled away along with the dirt and debris during a road reconstruction project which was then dumped or used as fill dirt.

 

[50bmg]

My initial guess would be that it was dug up and hauled away along with the dirt and debris during a road reconstruction project which was then dumped or used as fill dirt.

or possibly plowed up with snow during a big storm and then hauled away and dumped in the middle of the field during the snow cleanup