Any Ideas???????

[PrairieView]

Dug this out of the soybean field. What is it? Old?

 

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[ticndig]

it's a lynch pin still made and used today .

 

[Plug N Play]

Neigh ... Bit

 

[desertexplorer]

Plug n play is spot on, definitely a horse bit.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

PrairieView wrote:
> Dug this out of the soybean field. What is it? Old?

Plug N Play is correct... it is a horse-bit. More specifically, it is a variety of bit called a Snaffle-Bit. You also asked "Old?" Snaffle-bits date from the early-1800s (and perhaps a bit earlier) all the way onward through the decades up until today. You can buy Snaffle-Bits which look exactly like yours at horse-equipment stores. So, unfortunately, there's no way to accurately date yours, except to say, it is most likely from the time before the tractor replaced the plow-horse and horse-drawn wagons in farmfields like the soybean field you dug your Snaffle-Bit at.

 

[ticndig]

Ok I see the remains of one of the little loops now. and agree it's a bit.

 

[KyCreeker]

Agree with Plug N Play, most definitely a snaffle bit. I have dug several full and partials off farms here in eastern Ky. No way to really date them that i know of.
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