The Dorchester Pot

"The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase-like object that 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 from theBoston Transcript, a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, the two pieces were found, 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. The story has been used by creationists and fringe theorists as evidence that conventional models of geology or the length of the human presence on earth are wrong. Mainstream commentators identify it as a Victorian era candlestick or pipe holder."

• Text from Wikipedia entry for "Dorchester Pot" (accessed 11/12/2015) [links added]
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Blog Posts and Articles

• "The Dorchester Pot: New Questions about an Old OOPART" (Jason Colavito, 12/22/2014)
• "The Dorchester Pot" (Le Site d'Irna, 12/14/2014)

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Related Topics

• OOP-Arts
• Young Earth Creationism