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Found this waiding the river recently. Its an iron ingot used for forging spikes along the rail line (ccc&st.louis) in this case

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Awesome find! I bet that made ya look twice! Congrats and HH! :icon_thumleft:
 
Thanks. yeah I was hoping the magnet wouldn't stick. Oh well I still like it. I've found probably 10 of em still hopin to find some good ones. I pulled about 12 tons of iron out of the river last year. Old railroad scrap and tools mostly.

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That's really cool you found so many! Any idea on the age of those ingots? :coffee2:
 
Circa 1890's

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