✅ SOLVED Found this and dont have a clue. Help Please!

[Retired Fire]

I found this buried on an old farm. Approx 6 inches deep. I thought at first it was a weight from a scale but then I saw the holes and thought it could have been part of an old electric motor except there are no windings and now I rinsed it off there is nothing electrical looking about it. This is heavy and has a steel core and rod, a steel middle and some sort of non metallic brittle materials on either end. It looks like granite but it chips off in small granules. The land has history from the Civil War up to the early 1900's. Then the land went unoccupied until this day. I am at a loss. Help? Thanks.

 

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[Tony in SC]

Armature/stator for an electric motor.

 

[azdirtdigger]

Armature/stator for an electric motor.

 

[worldtalker]

I found this buried on an old farm. Approx 6 inches deep. I thought at first it was a weight from a scale but then I saw the holes and thought it could have been part of an old electric motor except there are no windings and now I rinsed it off there is nothing electrical looking about it. This is heavy and has a steel core and rod, a steel middle and some sort of non metallic brittle materials on either end. It looks like granite but it chips off in small granules. The land has history from the Civil War up to the early 1900's. Then the land went unoccupied until this day. I am at a loss. Help? Thanks.

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Those holes were drilled for balance.

 

[Retired Fire]

Thank you!

 

[Retired Fire]

Thanks for the fast and helpful replys! I will mark this solved! You all are awesome!

 

[tokameel]

Perhaps an old hand-held siren. But it reminds me of my mother's bread crumb roller.

 

[VA Redneck]

Rotor out of an AC motor. An armature would have ‘windings’ and a commutator and be from a DC motor. The holes are for air flow to cool the core iron of the motor.