Interesting find - glass in furnace slag?

[TMM]

i doubt that this stuff would knap well, there's too many inclusions, holes, etc to make it fracture well. there's a couple partial fractures on a piece or two, and you can see that it's not an even, smooth, "clamshell" like fracture.

hmm, if only the local historical society wasn't "closed for the season"...

griz, i'm looking forward to seeing pics of the stuff you found.

tmm

[280plus]

Did they mention which season? 

They may be opening soon.

Library is next. Most libraries have a local history section.

[TMM]

haha, this is true. though, if it isn't open tomorrow, all bets are off, because i'm going back home after graduating tomorrow. (i'm at vermont tech in randolph, home is CT)

TMM

[280plus]

Where CT?

[TMM]

guilford.

tmm

[280plus]

One of these days Hawkmoon and I are going to do some shooting at Chris' Guns in Guilford. We'll keep you posted. I've pushed for a few APS meet & greets in CT before but nobody wants to travel. I'm in Hebron myself. There's a few others floating around in here too.

[griz]

Here is one of the pieces we found:

[Lee]

We found similar stones at this spot: [ http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=15892 ], which is an abandoned iron furnace from the Civil War.

I knew that looked familiar.  It does look like the stuff I used to find around an old Civil War Iron furnace site here.

[Perd Hapley]

Could be scrap from glass making even but there is some potentialy nasty stuff to be found in any old industrial waste like that.

And if you're in California, it could cause cancer!

[TMM]

280, awesome! i know exactly where chris' guns is located. i don't have any pistols though, i could either use my .22 rifle or borrow something of yours... (i don't think they rent there do they?)

griz, that stuff looks cool! kinda striated. i guess it must be from impurities and sand and stuff that came with the coal. and luckily for me, i'm not in kalifornia, so i'm safe!

i drove past the factory one last time, i thought it had the name of the place on the smokestack, but someone painted on it the name of a different business  that took over a nearby building.

tmm

[280plus]

PM me when your in the area