✅ SOLVED A little help please.

[Ism]

I found these in a ghost town I have been searching off and on. A homeowner let me search the corner lot near his house and says a livery stable used to occupy the site back when the town existed.
I placed the Indian cent in the pic (dug at the site) for dating and size reference. I know what the buckle is, but I'm mostly curious if anybody knows what the ID tag was used for.
I was guessing the tag was attached by a leather strap. I did a search but the results were overwhelming and most of them had nothing to do with brass id tags.

As you can see, it has V. S. 25 stamped into it. There was a U.S. post office across the street. I know there was a time when V was used for a U, but I'm guessing that practice died out long before the civil war.
The other is a copper/brass ring. Horse tack?

Sadly the site is blanketed with large iron and soft sand. I found a 1960 Canadian at 8 inches so most good targets are probably really deep mingled with the iron.
The targets in the photo were intertwined with tree roots which could be part of the reason they were held near the surface.

TIA,
Ran

 

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[pong12211]

Almost looks like a tag that would have been on a leather belt or bag of somesort.. That would be my guess for the tag and buckle.. Also kudos on the indian head..

 

[olroy70]

the oval looking piece is part of an old rope halter.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The object on the right in the photo is an 1879-Patent horseharness buckle-shield, also called a buckle-cover. See the photo below, which shows one marked "Pat. Dec. 16, 1879." The information in that US Patent says it is a horseharness buckle-shield.

 

[Mekong Mike]

Maybe from the pony express days.

 

[Ism]

Thanks everyone for your replies.
The tag I thought might be a saddle/saddle bag I.D. Or something similar but am hoping it can be positively ID'd.

I knew about the "buckle cover" through other ID's over the years. I have found a couple solid ones, this was my first "hollow" one.
And thought I saw the tag style ID'd but just didn't know what "tag" words to use in my search to narrow it down to a couple thousand posts.
The oval piece "rope halter", was my guess also but at the time of my post I didn't know what to call it. Must have been a nice polished brass in the day.
Thanks about the Indian, my first fatty!

If not ID on the tag in next day or so, I will mark solved.....