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Hello! Someone from r/metaldetecting on reddit pointed me to this site. I've only gone treasure hunting a few times and only found some old clorox bottles from the 50's, but today I was merely cleaning up around my property and found something by accident.
The object is heavy, hollow, no apparent threads. It could possibly be cast iron and seems like the object is made up of two pieces of metal. There are 8 straight grooves on the rounded side and the other side has 3 feet and there is a point in the center that extends longer than the feet. There are also what might be 3 vents underneath the tip of each foot.
Someone on reddit said it could possibly be a UXO which has me a little concerned, but it doesn't look like what I would expect to be civil war era. But like I said, I am the noobest of noobs.
I live in a subdivision in the piedmont in the U.S. I was picking up trash in a wooded lot by my house. I found some old glass mountain dew bottles, beer bottles, car parts, and lawn mower parts along with this thing that was in the wet dirt. I've lived in this house for less than a year and the only thing I know about the subdivision is it was made in the late 1980's.
Thank you in advance!
https://postimg.cc/gallery/1kimd3lmw/
Hello! Someone from r/metaldetecting on reddit pointed me to this site. I've only gone treasure hunting a few times and only found some old clorox bottles from the 50's, but today I was merely cleaning up around my property and found something by accident.
The object is heavy, hollow, no apparent threads. It could possibly be cast iron and seems like the object is made up of two pieces of metal. There are 8 straight grooves on the rounded side and the other side has 3 feet and there is a point in the center that extends longer than the feet. There are also what might be 3 vents underneath the tip of each foot.
Someone on reddit said it could possibly be a UXO which has me a little concerned, but it doesn't look like what I would expect to be civil war era. But like I said, I am the noobest of noobs.
I live in a subdivision in the piedmont in the U.S. I was picking up trash in a wooded lot by my house. I found some old glass mountain dew bottles, beer bottles, car parts, and lawn mower parts along with this thing that was in the wet dirt. I've lived in this house for less than a year and the only thing I know about the subdivision is it was made in the late 1980's.
Thank you in advance!
I agree it appears to be made of 2 separate pieces. Almost as if one was meant to rotate inside the other. I know you said it is hollow, but it would be interesting to clean the gunk out of the 8 straight grooves and look inside from that end. Might find something that helps ID the find further.
