Does anyone know what this is?

[grnlin]

I saw this on the side of the hill close to a old homestead and a old mine. Stumped me on what it is. Please help me identify this.

 

[LP13]

Well I have seen similar things in Colorado when I lived there. They were used to bake bricks. However that looks too small to bake many bricks, so I am going out on a limb here and say it's a kiln for smelting precious metals. Maybe there was an assay office there? Can't tell if there was a building there or not.

If not that then my second guess is that was part of the mine's kitchen and it was an oven perhaps used for baking bread for the miners.

 

[PA.Hunter]

Maybe a old coal forge? What are those black things going up the stones are they metal?

 

[Reed Lukens]

Looks like a foundation from a 3 to 5 stamp mill.

 

[LP13]

Looks like a foundation from a 3 to 5 stamp mill.

Wow. Good guess! I hope that the OP can find out for sure what it is so we get to get out of our mystery!

 

[mattfink]

its a monument to the metal gods

 

[419GottaMinute]

Roman bath house

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

It looks like a tailling pile there .

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Smelter would be my guess, I've found a couple like this in my neck of the woods...