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[fishinmcc]

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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[FriscoT06]

Awesome find! I bet that made ya look twice! Congrats and HH!

 

[fishinmcc]

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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[FriscoT06]

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

 

[fishinmcc]

Circa 1890's

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