What is it? Contest 3. - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is it? brings us this object. Yes, it's an eagle, but what is it for? More hints (dimensions, another photo) at Rob's blog What is it?

Be the first to answer correctly (in the comment section - please post no URL or link.) will win a free Neatorama T-shirt.

Also, congratulations to Kevin Register, winner of last week's contest.

Update 12/12/06: Congratulations to Mark (#18) who guessed correctly! What is it? Blog has this as their official answer:

According to the book Primitives, Our American Heritage these are called snowbirds, and were anchored by the holes to roof edges under materials as slate or tile, they were meant to retain snow for insulation. Others believed they could prevent a layer of snow from plunging down on the heads of pedestrians.

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Andiron

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a fire place floo

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I think Mark #18 is close but I think it, along with several others like it would be lined up at the bottom edge of a sloped roof--not to keep the snow from falling off ut to help it melt and run off frequently and evenly.

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This is what is called a snowbird, used to keep snow and ice from sliding off the roofs of houses. You rarely see them anymore, mostly on the roofs of old homes with slate roofs. The snow and ice would melt, slide down the roof and get hung up on these where it would melt, not fall off where it could potentially hurt someone below

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It looks like an eagle that would sit on top of a flag pole.

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Very nice! Kudos to Maggie and the rest of the BB gang. I wonder if this is a one-time deal or it'll be something like Neatorama's own Spotlight blog?

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heh. I wondered the same thing. And also wondered if the Spotlight page got leaked before it went live ;-)

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So the picture you posted is to small to see it, but in that image just a little left and up of the left side of last bright white ring is a white dot. That dot is earth. This picture is called pale blue dot reduex.

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Again- This leaves me to marvel in awe and wonder- All that beauty, all that splendor--- What else is out there for us to discover...

...And then to think that some people rally believe that all that immense universe is created just for us puny humans.....

:-P

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