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Found in the floor of my basement, about 10 inches down. House was built in 1954. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by Xyphius@lemmy.ca to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world

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No idea what this is or what the letters might be.

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[–] Xyphius@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

it actually was a street prior to 1954

[–] athos77@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Okay. You said it was like ten inches down, so I'd guess it's probably not something related to your house, it's probably some bit of infrastructure from the old street. Which means we should be thinking in the realm of "outside municipal access covers", and not "something installed to make my house better".

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

10” isn’t all that deep. 4-6” slab with some subgrade. That’s 10” and would be about the depth for backflow preventers. Which that likely isn’t. But depth means nothing.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Uhhh was it a bombed out one?