✅ SOLVED Help ID decorative piece

[Ed_DE]

Found this decorative piece today at a 1700"s homesite. It's heavy, metal could bo copper or brass? Small glass stones in it. Two sides are curved. Two sides are flat.

 

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[Gene Mean]

Found this decorative piece today at a 1700"s homesite. It's heavy, metal could bo copper or brass? Small glass stones in it. Two sides are curved. Two sides are flat.

Buckle shape.

 

[Ed_DE]

Does have the size & shape to be a large buckle. Added some more pics of back. Thought it might be to ornate to be a buckle?

 

[invent4hir]

Nice find! Looks like there might be a pair of broken attachment points at 6 & 12 o'clock - so could be a brooch. It reminds me of an oval-shape brooch I found a few years ago that had colored glass "gemstones" that dated to the 1920s-30s. That said, your find is pretty thick for a brooch.

 

[pepperj]

I would guess buckle then a brooch.
Then again there was some big heads of thick hair, possibly a big hair barrette.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I think thistle plant is the plant depicted.

 

[Ed_DE]

I think thistle plant is the plant depicted.

I had to look up thistle plant and it does look like one. I found a lot of Scottish thistle plant brooches when I did a search.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I looked up Antique thistle buckle and it came up with a lot of Scottish thistle buckles and brooches.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I had to look up thistle plant and it does look like one. I found a lot of Scottish thistle plant brooches when I did a search.

I was typing out almost the same post. LOL

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It could be a Scottish kilt buckle.

 

[Ed_DE]

Thanks everybody for the help in the ID. It does seem a little to heavy & thick to be a brooch. The shape is that of a buckle & the plant is a thistle plant. I'm going to put this down as some type of a Scottish Thistle plant buckle.