Unidentified Man Made Artifact

Sometime around the late 1840's early 1850's a mysterious bell-shaped metallic vessel was unearthed(blasted)out of an immense mass of solid pudding stone that was ruffly 15-feet below the surface, by workmen in Dorchester Massachusetts.

The metallic bell shaped vessel is 4 1/2 inches high, 6 1/2 inches at the base, 2 1/2 inches at the top, and about 1/8 of an inch in thickness. The color of it resembles blackened zinc and is thought to be some unknown amalgam of brass,zinc,iron, and lead. On the sides of the vessel there are six figures of a flower or bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver and around the lower part of the vessel there is a vine or wreath also inlaid with silver. The workmen ship on the vessel is exquisite.

Through the years it has been examined by experts, more recently(last 30 years or so) by the Museum of fine Arts in Boston, which operates a state-of-the-art analysis laboratory built in cooperation with M.I.T. It was run through a thorough battery of tests for 2 years, which failed to confirm it's origin. However, geologists dated the rock matrix the vessel was found in to one million years old and acid testing on the vessel confirms these could be credible time parameters.

One scientist is quoted as saying "there is no doubt that this curiosity was blown out of solid rock, no one has ever seen anything like it."

The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase, which was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1852. [source]

Dorchester Pot {according to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categoryorchester_Pot}

Dorchester Pot article in 1852 Scientific American

{Close-up of article}

what I found relating to the topic..

looks like a bell to me..

I would have guessed candle stick holder from the shape and small size

The stuff that gets dug up in the future that was lost around this time is going to be so lame compared to the stuff we find now

Some workers claimed they found it after they exploded the rock. No actual proof that it was imbedded.

Now that we have ways to test the thing, it's gone.

The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase, which was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1852. According to text reprinted by Anonymous (1852) from the "Boston Transcript", a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, the two pieces of the Dorchester Pot were found, not in situ within local bedrock, but loose among debris thrown out by the explosion. Apparently, it was inferred from the locations of the two pieces of this pot among the explosion debris that this pot had been blasted from solid puddingstone (conglomerate), which is part of the Roxbury conglomerate, from about 15 feet below the surface of Meeting House Hill (Anonymous 1852).

The bell-shaped vessel about was described as being about 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) high, 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) in diameter as the base and 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) in diameter at the top. The body of this object was said to resemble zinc alloyed with silver in color. It reportedly exhibited floral designs on its side and a wreath or vine design around its lower part, which were both inlaid with silver (Anonymous 1852).

PureInsight (2006) also provides, without any attribution, a picture of an unknown object from an unknown source, which is used to illustrate what they apparently believe the Dorchester Pot looked like, as well as an age of 100,000 years. Anonymous (1852), the primary source of information about this object, provides neither any picture of nor age estimate for the Dorchester Pot.

A web page created by archaeologists Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser with the stated goal of examining fringe archaeology identifies the object as "clearly a candlestick of obviously Victorian style" [http://www.badarchaeology.net/data/o...orchester.php] ; they presumably base this identification on the unsourced photograph of the Dorchester Pot mentioned above.

So what we're looking at here is a metallic, bell-shaped bell.

I am interested in knowing what this artifact's intended use was, but what I am really interested in is how it got to be in and under 15-feet of solid rock. I thought that logically there would have to have been an old well on this site, or maybe a natural crater that the artifact was thrown or fell down, but even if this was the case it does not explain why it's maker or origin can't be identified.
Also, all accounts are that it was blasted out of solid rock.

It seems to me then, that this could be an artifact from some ancient lost civilization.

My guess would be Atlantis.

Well that roxbury puddingstone was deposited sometime between 570 and 600 million years ago and was exposed when the last ice age receded some 10,000 years ago

If it was embedded nothing short of a star trek like transporter could have buried it so deep within the bedrock



Hotwater

Chuck Norris put it there