✅ SOLVED Found this iron object today, any ideas?

[DarthYoda333]

 

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[DizzyDigger]

Know what it is, but not what it's called.

The two little wings fit into notches, and a screw/bolt goes down the middle.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Your find is part of a Model-P1853 Enfield Rifle-Musket. It is #29 in the diagram below. Some were made of iron, and some are brass. As the diagram show, there were two of them, located directly opposite from the lockplate on the gunstock's right side. Dizzydigger is correct... it was "inset" into the left side of the wooden gunstock, and a long screw ran through it into the backside of the lockplate. I do not recall its specific name... it MIGHT be called a lockplate escutcheon.

I should mention, because most of these I've seen dug from civil war sites were brass and yours appears to be iron, it MIGHT be from some other type of rifle-musket.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Here's the brass examples on my P 1853 Enfield.