belt plate

After a stressful week at work and more than a month with the ground covered in snow, I took the day off today for some swing therapy. My first permission was an absolute bust so I door knocked a stately house on the drive back home. The owner said there had been one others detectorist on the...

Found this today at my house from the mid to late 1800s wanted to know what it is and what you all know about it!

I dug this (?) Belt plate about a year ago, but have yet to find another example with no designs or markings. I was just curious if anyone else might recognize it?

I found this old belt plate(?) today at a very old log cabin site. Didn't find much else to help date the place, so don't know how old this might be. It is brass, long and narrow, and has two holes where I assume some numbers, insignia, symbols, etc. may have been attached. There is a faint...

Pretty proud of this find considering I just started a few weeks ago. Is it as rare as it seems to be on-line? I can't find a lot of information on these and would appreciate any help I can get! It's brass, rectangular, it's in pretty great shape, found on private family property that we've...