It was metal, and she explored it with her foot and found that it was an iron bucket.
This has an unusual external iron undershot wheel, thought to be of the Poncelot type, complete with iron buckets.
It was installed in about 1830, but by 1972 the 72 iron buckets had failed and were replaced by fibreglass replicas.
Her pistol was beneath, concealed from sensors by the galvanized iron bucket.
It was serviced by a large iron bucket operated by a gasoline winch.
At least fifty men worked at repairing the earthslide, using shovels and iron buckets, most of them already slimed in thick mud.
Just in a galvanised iron bucket nearly full of water.
Then she saw that she had fallen over something not unlike a great iron bucket.
A second man sat with his neck trapped between the rungs of the ladder and his head covered by the galvanised iron bucket.
The weight was a big, rusty iron bucket which Willis had found and filled with stones.