✅ SOLVED Fuse perhaps?

[CoilyGirl]

Found this last evening and while I compared it to a Bormann ,it's not exactly like that and the only other fuse I recognize is a Schenkl fuse.It is very heavy brass,a round indention on one side but the flip side is square. It looks like it has been damaged and torn in half somehow.It is threaded like fuses I have seen but I could be totally off too.

 

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[ekeisler]

More pictures from different angles?

 

[CoilyGirl]

Here you go ekeisleror anyone else that wants to take a look. this is just after I washed it off so the dark part is wet. The one side is concave,a circle but when you flip it over its a square,convex.

 

[duggap]

Take your very first picture and turn it upside down. We need to see what the round base looks like from the top.

 

[DCMatt]

Maybe a pipe clean out plug?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry to have to disappoint, but it is definitely not a civil war artillery fuze... nor from a grenade or landmine, etc. A threaded metal fuze typically had some kind of provision (such as slots or a hexagonal collar) for a fuze-wrench to grip the fuze firmly enough to screw it TIGHTLY into the shell or grenade or landmine. There seems to be nothing like that on this object. You say its other side has a square indentation, but I don't see it in any of the photos you've posted. There was a civil war era British artillery shell "shipping plug" which had a square indentation for a tool to screw it into the shell, but its underside did not have a round depression in it, like this object has. I cannot identify the threaded plug you found, but I'm 100%-certain it is not from a civil war era explosive device.

Edit-note:
As the timestamps on DCMatt's post and mine show, I didn't get to see his until after I posted mine. The square projection on the screw-in plug he posted shows what I meant about the need to have something for a tool to grip for screwing the plug (or fuze) tightly into whatever it goes into.

 

[Hangman]

Maybe a pipe clean out plug?

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I'd say your right on, The damage was more than likely caused by a lawn mower, I'll bet there is a pipe sticking out of the ground some place close by.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thanks for the responses guys before I showed up at the metal detecting club meeting and got smirked at,lol. That puppy is going in the trash. Hangman thanks for the picture and DCMatt great ID.

 

[cudamark]

Rather than throwing it in the trash, make a dedicated bucket for brass and copper to use for scrap metal. You'd be surprised how that can add up over the next year or two.