✅ SOLVED Buckle & Mysteries - Brandywine Battlefield

[JoshW]

Found this group of items on the Brandywine Battlefield in PA. Anyone seen a similar style buckle on Rev War fields? It is a two piece buckle that interlocks. There is a lead pencil and a small solid square shaped object (maybe a finial?). There is part of a little bell and I am not sure what the item on the upper left is. It looks to be part of a hollow object that would be about the size of a softball, if it was whole, and has a pronounced seam. Thanks in advance for your responses.

Is there a trick to posting the pictures? The site seems to automatically rotate them sideways.

Thanks,

Josh

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

I have enough energy this evening to do a post... maybe two.

Your rusty iron buckle has the exact same form as the 20th-Century horseharness iron/steel surcingle buckle shown in the photo below.

 

[nhbenz]

The chunk with a seam may be from a very large crotal bell? But the one that is bell shaped I think has more the shape of a candle snuffer.
Here’s the general idea behind the chunk thingy:

 

[JoshW]

Thank you very much for the IDs!

Josh