Dorchester Pot
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The Dorchester Pot was a zinc-and-silver vase allegedly mined out of solid rock in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1851. Reported in the June, 1851 issue of Scientific American (volume 7, pp. 298-299), it was blasted from solid pudding stone (a type of sedimentary rock) found 15 feet below the surface of Meeting House Hill in Dorchester. The bell-shaped vessel had floral designs inlaid with silver.
It was recovered in two pieces.
The object was estimated to be about 100,000 years old, which, if true, would earn its designation as an out-of-place artifact. Unfortunately, the pot disappeared after circulating through several museums.
References
Mystery Of America: Enigmatic Mysteries And Anomalous Artifacts Of North America - A Connection To The Ancient Past, by Tedd St Rain, published by Lost Arts Media in 2003.External links
- [Prehistoric Smelting Technology and Mining Activities]
- [OOPARTS (out of place artifacts) & ANCIENT HIGH TECHNOLOGY --Evidence of Noah's Flood?]
- [Enigmatic Mysteris and Anomalous Artifacts of North America: A Connection to the Ancient Past]
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