Plugging drill, Hancock, MA

Object ID:

1959.11298.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Description

Iron octagonal rod with flattened end and sharpened curved edge. Used to drill holes in rock in which dynamite was inserted to split off blocks of rocks.

Massachusetts Hancock

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