Found along River bank... Solid and heavy..

[Slycer516]

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

This is more modern but there are steel wheels for cultivators for marking the next row these look like them.These are just for reference maybe someone will find the style I am thinking about.The type I am thinking about look like two disc blades welded together and the axle is in the center.

 

[Goldiver]

This is more modern but there are steel wheels for cultivators for marking the next row these look like them.These are just for reference maybe someone will find the style I am thinking about.View attachment 1210010The type I am thinking about look like two disc blades welded together and the axle is in the center.

Is this the kind you were thinking of? They are harrow disk blades..... Disc Blades - Tillage Parts

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Is this the kind you were thinking of? They are harrow disk blades..... Disc Blades - Tillage Parts

No the ones I am referring to are solid like the ones I show but are more rounded than the ones I showed.If the OP could let us know if there is farming nearby mine might make sense but if not the wheel idea is out the window because of the weight to get it to a secluded inaccessible area.

 

[Anduril]

Maybe the base for an umbrella stand? (OP said it was heavy!)

Were land mines used in the Civil War?
If so, did they look like this?
How much do land mines weigh?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I saw this item yesterday when he/she posted it, and thought it looked like a landmine, but didn't post because I don't know anything about them except what I've seen in photos. After checking back in tonight, I was shocked to see everyone's post.

Of course, if it is a pot lid, wait until next Spring, bury it in your potential garden, then call the authorities to find it. You should have a nicely dug garden before they leave!

Breezie

Yer kinda sneaky.

Did he ever say it was metal? Could be fired clay?

 

[Jack873]

Maybe the base for an umbrella stand? (OP said it was heavy!)

Were land mines used in the Civil War?
If so, did they look like this?
How much do land mines weigh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellermine_35
This is a wiki article on a German Tellermine 35 anti-tank mine. According to the article, the case is made of sheet steel and weighs 9.1kg(which is about 20lbs.)

As for Civil War landmines, I did find out that the Confederates did, in fact, have landmines called "Torpedoes." They were made of iron with a brass detonation cap. Only thing is that they are more spherical in shape.

Yer kinda sneaky.

Did he ever say it was metal? Could be fired clay?

Object looks like rusted metal to me. Like iron, but I guess steel could become just as corroded.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Civil war didn't employ what we would call a land mine. That is - an explosive buried and designed to be set-off when pressure or other means of trigger later came along.

There were land bombs/torpedoes but they were placed and used burning or clockwork fuses. Water torpedoes were what we now call contact mines. They
went off when a ship struck them.

The shell shown above is a penetrator designed to blow up below the surface and was fired by artillery.

Civil War Torpedo Civil War Mine Land Submarine Sea Weapon

The object may be a circular plow coulter or a harrow disc as BOTB suggested. We need to see an edge-on image for how thick it is.

 

[Jack873]

Thank you for clarifying that for me Charlie.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Did OP say if was terra cotta or metal?

 

[Breezie]

=ConceptualizedNetherlandr;4676206]Did OP say if was terra cotta or metal?

I would guess it's metal since he found it with a metal detector.

Just kiddin' with you,
Breezie

 

[AlabamaRelic]

Slycer was logged in last night so I'm sure he hasn't blown himself up. I believe it is a piece of farm equipment, a disc

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I apologize. There is a case of a land mine from the Civil War - but it was a unique case.

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Regarding Booby Traps and land mines found during Sherman's March to the Sea, General William T. Sherman recorded in his Memoirs: "On the 8th, [of December 1864] as I rode along, I found the column turned out of the main road, marching through the fields. Close by, in the corner of a fence, was a group of men standing around a handsome young officer, whose foot had been blown to pieces by a torpedo planted in the road. He was waiting for a surgeon to amputate his leg, and told me that he was riding along with the rest of his brigade-staff of the Seventeenth Corps, when a torpedo trodden on by his horse had exploded, killing the horse and literally blowing off all the flesh from one of his legs. I saw the terrible wound, and made full inquiry into the facts. There had been no resistance at that point, nothing to give warning of danger, and the rebels had planted eight-inch shells in the road, with friction-matches to explode them by being trodden on. This was not war, but murder, and it made me very angry. I immediately ordered a lot of rebel prisoners to be brought from the provost-guard, armed with picks and spades, and made them march in close order along the road, so as to explode their own torpedoes, or to discover and dig them up. They begged hard, but I reiterated the order, and could hardly help laughing at their stepping so gingerly along the road, where it was supposed sunken torpedoes might explode at each step, but they found no other torpedoes till near Fort McAllister."[/FONT]

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

I would guess it's metal since he found it with a metal detector.

Just kiddin' with you,
Breezie

How do we know that? Are you guys having a private message affair?

He is a man of few words ... and I can't even be sure about the man part, I didn't see him claim that either

 

[Slycer516]

sorry guy I've been on vacation.. Def not a mine but thanks for your concern, here's the other side and flat around the edge maybe a centimeter thick

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looking more and more like a disc from a disc harrow or a circular plow coulter.

 

[ARC]

Agreed... Plow cutter wheel.

PS> Deleted my mine post once you responded.
Sure did look like one.
Thankfully it was not.

 

[Slycer516]

sorry I was on vacation, def not a mine but seems to heavy for a lid,about a quarter inch thick and flat around edge

 

[Roff]

I dunno. Disc harrow blades are concave/convex, have sharp edges, and a hole in the center.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I'm just happy to see you didn't blow yourself up! Some of the posts had me worried!