22 round disks found in Hole on disused colonial Road

[Wild Colonial Boy]

I found the copper disks each 3/8' or 6mm and 1/16 thick

20 of them came from same hole on a colonial trackway through woods /old colonial farm fields, and Two in the field next to it

what is interesting is each have been cut off something as shaft has cut marks and burr on one edge
, the outer rim is grooved like a dial or something

anybody know these this are?

 

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[Tommybuckets]

They look like weights for a scale. Are they lead or brass? Brass could be a scale weight. Lead maybe bale seals ? Just guessing around.

 

[Hawks88]

I thought maybe a dial or knob of some sort. Interesting.

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

They appear to be copper or bronze

They look like weights for a scale. Are they lead or brass? Brass could be a scale weight. Lead maybe bale seals ? Just guessing around.

 

[A2coins]

Im stumped

 

[Red James Cash]

They look familiar.maybe snaps to carriage,wagon that had a removable roof,cover.

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

Thank you, thats a possibility, they are heavy little disks,

what puzzles me is why somebody in the past would sit by the side of the road
and cut them all away from something?

each has crude saw marks on stub, and an extended thin burr when it broke free

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

The knurling on the edge suggests they were something you could unscrew or grip with your fingers.

 

[Bruce R]

The fact that they are all the same tells me they’re from well into the industrial revolution, having been mass produced, probably on an automated machine.

 

[ticndig]

I'm watching this one , I have a bunch of those too.

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

I'm watching this one , I have a bunch of those too.

was the find circumstance similar?


all together in same hole or area??

 

[Anduril]

They look very similar to the set screws on a pair of calipers.

 

[coinman123]

It could have been some stock that a hardware store owner bought, maybe in small cloth bag that long since deteriorated. Probably second half of the 19th century.

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

Thats a good example

 

[DCMatt]

6mm is pretty small. That's about the right size for thumb screws to hold the globe on a light fixture.



Why were they cut off? Who knows? People do odd things for strange reasons...

 

[Hawks88]

Whatever they were on they were probably cut off because that part was the only piece that would be worth collecting for scrap money.

 

[ticndig]

all the ones I found were in a civil war era dirt path at the bloody angle. Spotsylvania va

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

very interesting as its the same along a path, what is the bloody angle?

 

[Wild Colonial Boy]

6mm is pretty small. That's about the right size for thumb screws to hold the globe on a light fixture.

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Why were they cut off? Who knows? People do odd things for strange reasons...

great

maybe they needed only the screw part and the head was in the way of something

 

[SeabeeRon]

Thats a good example

great

maybe they needed only the screw part and the head was in the way of something

They also may have been "frozen/corroded" and the heads cut off to get something taken apart.