For any novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses, see potboiler.
Two incomplete fire-cracked cobbles of unknown date which have been subjected to high heat causing them to crack and break. Date from: Circa 800 BC Date to: Circa AD 1800 (Iron Age to Medieval). Found by fieldwalking on cultivated land near Goole in Yorkshire, England.
In archaeology or anthropology, a pot boiler or cooking stone is a heated stone used to heat water - typically by people who did not have access to pottery or metal vessels.
