🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Late 1700’s cellar hole find...

[canes2016]

Found this squarish object under a big maple root growing out of corner of a cellar hole. What’s interesting is it has a hole on the top while at the bottom, there are similar sized holes opposite of one another. Not much bigger than an inching length or diameter. Any thoughts?

 

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[creskol]

It is a cup off of a chair leg.

 

[canes2016]

Many thanks, never would have thought of it. They actually had chairs with rollers in the late 1700’s?

 

[creskol]

Many thanks, never would have thought of it. They actually had chairs with rollers in the late 1700’s?

That would be a good research project.

 

[pepperj]

Many thanks, never would have thought of it. They actually had chairs with rollers in the late 1700’s?

Casters are a much less modern invention than most may expect. Charles Darwin is thought to be the first person to use casters when he added wheels to his traditional armchair to make it easier to move around his study in the 17th century. However, chair casters weren’t patented until nearly two hundred years later in 1876 by African American inventor David A. Fisher, who recognized the need for workers to be more mobile and comfortable in the workplace at the height of the Industrial Revolution.

Remember cellar holes were just that, a hole in the ground for the perfect makings of a trash/burn pit for the later generations.