Farm Site Find

[redlined]

Anyone got any idea what the three copper pieces are? They came from an 1800's farm/barn site last week. All three seemed to have been rolled to a point, when I found the first one I thought it was simply discarded scrap, after I found another two, I'm thinking they served a purpose. FWIW, there are no Copper Culture type sites around so I don't think they have any indian origin. Any thoughts?

 

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[CRUSADER]

pieces like this were often hammered into trees to poison & kill them off.

 

[woody50]

Cru is right about people hammering pieces of copper into trees, however the metal in these object are just too thin to hammer into a tree, most of the time I have seen copper rod used for that. I myself would think that these were some left over metal from a repair or something like that. Its just too hard to imagine what some pieces of copper metal were used for, there could be millions of things....

 

[seger98]

I don't believe they are from the Old Copper Culture either, they don't look nothing like the copper I find in Northern Wis. I would agree with Woody above!

 

[vhs07]

Could be whats called "tinklers", made and worn by native americans. Once they made contact with europeans, they had acces to all sorts of metals.

 

[randazzo1]

i'm gonna second vhs07 on that. looks exactly like tinklers.

 

[woody50]

i'm gonna second vhs07 on that. looks exactly like tinklers.

Thanks vhs07 and randazzo1 ! Even at my age I keep learning...! Congradulations redlined, I believe you got yourself a bunch of Tinklers!!! The second photo proves it!

 

[Angelo]

NICE ID vhso7

Beats me how you were able to come up with the name TINKLERS.

Tony

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Tinklers or janglers. They were called that because that was the sound they made when there was movement. I would search that site some more. There could be some great Native artifacts there!
Dave.

 

[dozer dan]

what part of kentucky are you in? they could be parts someone used to build a still.

 

[Old River]

I find thin copper every time I go out to my site. I just though it might be something used around the house, or farm. I have found shees of it, and lots of little pieces.