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Yep, just decking the top to make it smooth and flat. Had been forgotten in a barn for 30 years.
It's looks like it's in remarkably good condition for 30 years in a barn!
What comes next after machining the top?
Anvils last a long time even in the shittiest conditions. They're blocks of iron or steel and it's hard for rust to really penetrate deep
Also I'd already attacked it with a flap disk to get most of the surface rust off, it was pretty fuzzy when I started.
Is it branded on the other side?
I flipped it over actually, try to get the bottom parallel but I gave up after a few passes, it would have taken more than I was willing to cut.
Should put some nice chamfers and radii on the edges, you use the edge of an anvil a fair but, and being able to select a radius, chamfer, or square edge is nice.