Some sort of cast iron plate

[Chroma]

For your viewing pleasure: some sort of broken cast iron plate.

Context: Found a couple inches down in the front yard of a rural West Virginia farmhouse built in the 1900-1910 timeframe. There was also 19th-century activity at this location--the story goes that a cabin stood on the same site before the current house. I have found an English-made flat brass button and numerous cut nails in the yard, which seem to validate the claim of a previous structure (current house constructed using only modern wire nails).

Pictures, inch ruler for scale.

This side has four ridges running across it.

Ridges traced in red

Other side. There is a lip along the vertical edges

Thickness

Anyone have a guess as to what this cast iron chunk was part of? My suspicion is that it's part of a stove, but let me know what you think.

 

[hoser]

My guess is an old iron cook stove. Cool.

 

[stetam]

It's something I would have left lay.

Steve

 

[HuntinDog]

Cast iron griddle

 

[Chroma]

It's something I would have left lay.

Steve

I would have left it if circumstances were different, but this a family house whose yard I can detect whenever I want, and I was specifically trying to remove iron targets, especially large pieces. I have run out of audible nonferrous targets after detecting the yard from multiple angles with a very slow swing speed, so I'm running an experiment to see if removing iron will unmask some previously inaudible nonferrous items. Could be a completely fruitless endeavor, but I'm having fun.

 

[wolf-n-wa]

From the civil war. Level IIIA body armor!

 

[BeardedRelicHunter]

It's something I would have left lay.

Steve

scrap iron is free $$ lol