Talk:Dorchester Pot

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message: A Relic oF a BY-Gone Age. ' On Thursday last a powerful blast was made in the rock at Meeting House Hill in Dorchester, a few rods south of Rev. Mr. Hall's meeting house. This blast threw out an immense mass of rock, some of the pieces weighing eeveral tons, and scattered small fragment*s in all directions. Among them was picked up a metallic vessel in two parts, rent asuuder by the explosion. On putting fie two parts together it formed a bell shaped vessel, 4 1/2 inches high, 6 1/2 inches at the base, 2 1/2 inches at the top, and about an 1/8th of an inch in thickness. The body of this vessel resembles zinc in color, or a composition metal, in which there is a considerable portion of silver. In the top there is a hole for a handle, and in the bottom opposite a'larger hole b filled with lead, soldered up close. The inside is considerably corroded, but the outside is smooth and free from rust.
On the aides there are six figures of a flower, or bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver, and around the lower part of the vessel a vine, or wreath, inlaid also with silver. The chasing, carving and inlaying are exquisitely done by the art of some cunning workman, and when new must have been very beautiful. This curious and unknown vessel was blown out of the solid pudding stone, 10 feet below the surface. Bow it came there, or for what use it was made, no one can imagine. It is now in the possession of Mr. John Ketlell, at his mansion house, opposite the ledge from which it was blown. It has been examined by nearly 300 persons, many of whom were scientific men, but no-one has yet beenn able to say what it could have been made for. Dr. J. V. C. Smith, who has recently travelled in tht East, and examined hundreds of curious domestic utensils, and has drawings of them, has never seen anything resembling this. He has taken a drawing and accurate dimensions of it, to be submitted to the scientific. There is no doubt but that this curiosity was blown out of the rock as above stated; but will Professor Agassiz or some other scientific man please to tell us how it came there ? The matter is worthy of investigation, as there is no deception in the case. As Pope says of the fly in amber:
"Tis not because the thing is rich and rare; The wonder is. how tbs devil it got there.*  From here. Doug Weller talk 12:30, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for finding this.--Auric  talk 14:08, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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