clay "stones" fused with glass

[naturegirl]

Hi y'all! It's been along long time since I posted, and this isn't metal detecting related, but it's a puzzle to me. so I came to brightest minds on the internet!!! ...Kansas hillside, "dump" area, 1920-1950. At first we thought sandstone with a melted window pane from a wildfire, but we kept finding more..So we decided clay, like the firebrick kind with glass fused around it for some reason. Also found a crudely constructed well or cistern looking concrtet pad, but didn't try to uncover pipe or hole...so don't know it it was a well or not, but nearby the glass/clay chunks. any ideas? I think it's some kind of vintage industrial type element that busted into pieces when toss over the bluff...thanks for looking~~ng

 

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[kcm]

I read somewhere recently how Kansas is situated on a lot of, I think it was Limestone, but might have been Sandstone. They used to make fence posts out of the stone as there were no trees.

Looks to me like you found what is left of an old building; maybe a Frontier home? Maybe the chimney from a house burnt down? The stone could have been cut, then a sort of mortar made to "glue" the blocks together.

Can you tell us anything more about the surrounding area? Was this a private dump or city/public dump? Official dump or where people would just go and throw their trash? Is it near town? Did there used to be a town there?

The pieces in 067 look like they could be exterior trim, like up under the eaves of a building. Maybe could check old photos of the nearest town and see if anything might match the shape in that photo (or any of the others).

If sand is heated, it turns to glass. So maybe it IS sandstone, and went through a fire.

 

[naturegirl]

Hi kcm,

This is in a pretty rural location, and pretty sure it is not sandstone. The dump area is not very big, and mainly household items. We've checked old maps, and found no dwelling, but it is near an old road, and I know it was common practice to just dump unwanted stuff over a hill. This glass had to have been cast onto the clay somehow, but it being some kind of trim is an interesting thought, I'll pursue that line. In my searching online for information made me wonder if it is some kind of glazing that was applied, the glass does not even want to pry off.

thanks!

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Might have been from a pool or fountain? Being where it is,Is the true mystery though.

 

[bradyboy]

Kiln or burn pit?
BRady

 

[tamrock]

Indeed most of the bedrock of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and even Weeping Water Nebraska is sedimentary rock and Limestone. I've been in the Limestone mines before and they make a great place for underground real estate after they mine out the high in calcium limestone seams. I herd that some of the companies that mines the limestone now make even more on the property rental market in the mined out square footage as storage for many things. I herd even the Mormons mined out caverns to keep things in I'm told by some of the tramp miners I've come to know over the years who were hired to do the work. Who knows what they store in those? Maybe they have some gold stashed away ??

 

[kcm]

WOW!! That'd make an AWESOME workshop!!!!

 

[kilocycle]

Hello,

I am not the oldest Stationary Engineer I know, But that kind of looks like a lining out of an Old,old boiler, or possibly Slag from an old boiler, I will show these pics to an old 2x retired Navy Engineer, and see what he says.