What is it?

I wonder if it could be a small silage bunker and the "soil" could be old decomposed silage.

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bought in a tax sale, I doubt he is very pleased with me.

Ok. Is the back of the wall on the outside also only 2'? or is the hill inside and outside of the area? Maybe was set up for the scouts to practice building a little stove/oven and making a meal or even light/smoke signals?

He shouldn't blame you. I can understand life going wrong and losing your home for taxes, but it isn't the person buying the property who is at fault. And I don't think it really should be the person who lost it at fault either...

Looks like a wood fired Kiln to me. The fire is made up front, sucked heat to the back where the pottery was stacked. Looks AWESOME to me! I would clean it up and rebuild! If it was a wood fired Kiln, local potters would pay you to allow them to fire it.

Or make an incredible wood fired bake oven!

Find out the prior owners name. Then, Google him/her and find their Facebook page. See if there are any "photos" and thus, if it was a Kiln, you might find photos!

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Storage facility for spent nuclear fuel rods

I have a BFA in ceramics and at the very least intend to reuse the firebrick for a kiln. I will be digging it out eventually, will keep this thread updated when I find out more info.

I got a few more pics, I put the kiln back together how I found it and took a shovel to it for 3 seconds. On the outside entrance and within 6 feet of the entrance there are eyehooks, and there are bungie cords attached to the eyerings that line the top about 6 feet down from the entrance.

Maybe it was a place to store haybales, they put them in here with a tarp bungied over it? I know they had a horse.

Don't think the firebricks don't make much of a kiln. Or have anything to do with the structure.

Somebody spent a lot of money and time building this thing.

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probably way off here, but i've seen shelters like this made out of concrete for the making of fireworks.

If there was an explosion it would divert the blast away from the other stuff. Is this the only one around?

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only one, I am in St Louis county, basically it's in a major metropolitian area, I doubt it was used for making fireworks, but it's one of the better guesses.

If it's 25 feet around, that means it's about 8 feet across. I don't know if it would be big enough for much hay storage, but could have been a feeder. It's not recommended to feed horses hay that has been rained on, so they put the tarp over to keep it dry. You said _a_ horse, takes a while for a horse to eat a round bale, so that would help it last longer? The horse wasted a lot, thus the build up inside. The wood bracing only goes back a short way, not all the way around. It kept the front from flaring out and braced for the horse rubbing and/or kept it from cutting itself on just tin sheets there.

The rough cut letting the sun shine under it in the later pics say to me this was cobbled together from tin that was scrounged from somewhere else. Maybe they even originally intended it for a shelter for the horse. Mine never would have tolerated a tarp flapping above her. Then they made it a feed station. Or even was composting the horse manure there. I bet you have some good soil amendment in there.....

Once again, just me take on it

I like your guess, but it is about 25 feet from outside to outside.

Saw the neighbor and asked him if he knew what this thing is. "I saw him building it, for a long time, I have no Idea what it is" asked him if he used it for a burn pile, he said no and then asked "there wasn't no marijuana growing in there?". I have not see any but it is winter, but do not see any evidence of it, and this house is in a school zone, it would just be dumb to grow weed there. But dude did not pay his taxes and may have tried to pass counterfit money at the local grocery store, guessing he was not a genuis.

My friend came over and his mom came with him, she grew up on farms, lived on them her whole life. She said maybe it was used to hold hay for horses, to keep it dry, and to keep the deer out which could have been done with a few tarps.

we figured the hill is there because he ran out of corrugated steel. and that the fire bricks were put it afterwards and have nothing to do with anything.