🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Brass Fitting for What?

[pkr1703]

Searched around an old spring house foundation on a neighbor's farm today and dug up this brass fitting. At first I thought it was an old single bulb light fixture - same size and shape but after removing the dirt saw it was not. The small center diameter is threaded for about a half inch pipe with coarse thread. The larger single hole on the side is also threaded. The smaller holes on the side go all the way around the circumference and are not threaded. It weighs probably about 5 pounds and seems to be red brass. The spring house may have been in use from 1850 to 1950 ish. Any ideas what it may have been used as?

 

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[crashbandicoot]

No pic!

 

[HuntinDog]

Maybe a picture of the top and bottom and measurements would help.
I'm thinking part of the water pickup for the pump.

 

[ticndig]

maybe a lamp part ?

 

[Tony in SC]

The pipe thread and being brass makes me think old pump part!

 

[pkr1703]

I'm thinking that it likely had to do with a water pump for the spring.
Maybe the small holes had something to do with a filter cover for water pick up.