Copper circle with heart in middle

Yup! Pictures would help.............HH
 

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Sweet find. You can go to your county arcaives to find out if they have an old Map that may help you on the road.
 

That is a rosette .. cool find.
 

Creskol what you think maybe 1840's early 1900's rosette
 

Ornamentation on horse tack. Common in mid to late 1800's. ........Try Google Earth on the old road. Sometimes the view will show hints of the old road bed. Often you may see it then loose it in a turned field and it reappears in an adjoining field etc. Put the 2+2 together and you will get a good idea where it ran between the two visible sites. certainly not a sure thing but works for me occasionally.:icon_thumleft:
 

That is a mid-1800s bridle rosette. Great find! Is it lead filled on the back?
 

BuckleBoy said:
That is a mid-1800s bridle rosette. Great find! Is it lead filled on the back?
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Just for curiosity sakes, how do you know that it dates to that time frame? I have seen them in catalogs much later.
 

creskol said:
Just for curiosity sakes, how do you know that it dates to that time frame? I have seen them in catalogs much later.
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I dug one like that at a CW site last October. It was affixed to the head stall of the bridle near the horse's eye. Mine had a tin back. I was told the lead backed rosettes were CW period and the tin ones were considered post CW. However, a local relic dealer and 40 yr. relic digger told me that a family of a CSA Cavalry Soldier (their ancestor) brought in their ancestor's horse tack USED in the CW. He bought the bridle from the family and said the rosettes on that bridle were also tin vs. lead backed. Another relic dealer says he is sure the tin rosettes were available in the war. These were civilian purchase items and available before, during, and after the CW. Whether they were used by CS cavalry, unless you find them on a bridle identified to a CS Soldier, you can't be sure. I recovered a CS Militia plate and numerous other relics in the immediate area of the site where the heart rosette came from and I'm still not sure it was used on a Confederate horse. Since this was the exact route Gen. Morgan's CSA forces used to escort their 1,400+ Yankee prisoners from a battle where they crossed the Cumberland River after the Battle of Hartsville, that enhances the chances of military use but we can't actually say that it was. The U.S. issued heart rosette had no rim incidentally so yours was civilian. Nice find & HH, Quindy.
 

creskol said:
Just for curiosity sakes, how do you know that it dates to that time frame? I have seen them in catalogs much later.
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Was thinking it was likely lead backed, which would certainly lean towards that time frame rather than late 1800s. It'll be interesting to see what the OP says about the back.
 

TNGUNS said:
Ornamentation on horse tack. Common in mid to late 1800's. ........Try Google Earth on the old road. Sometimes the view will show hints of the old road bed. Often you may see it then loose it in a turned field and it reappears in an adjoining field etc. Put the 2+2 together and you will get a good idea where it ran between the two visible sites. certainly not a sure thing but works for me occasionally.:icon_thumleft:
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Thanks I'll give it a try.
 

Sounds like a tin back if it is rusty.
 

So the earliest it could be is CW era, might date later with the tin back. :)
 

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