✅ SOLVED Hut site find needs ID

[HutSiteDigger]

Hey guys I was out hut digging today and dug this about 2 feet in the ground, Im thinking it is some sort of pencil holder with the pencil still inside it, I have never come across this before , it is about 2 inches of brass tube with a wooden pencil like thing inserted in the tube, you can see the a wooden pencil like thing @ the end there, the top of the artifact is wooden and came off while I was cleaning it which then I saw the pencil or whatever it is inside the brass tube, and on the side of the artifact is something wooden with a hole in it almost as a keyring type thingy, at first I thought it was a medical syringe but I do not think so, the camp I was hunting in was visited a lot by news reporters and photographs in 1862 and this union hut may have been where a reporter or photographer stayed during the winter months since this camp was more healthier than most regiment camps. Any ID please? thanks... I have video and photos.

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Hello HSD,

Could that be a slate pencil?

Pencils

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Hey I think your right on the slated pencil... So what i have been researching it would be a slated pencil with the metal holder still attached I found one link with this photo and it saying:

This Slate pencil found in Paradise. Slate pencil excavated from a Paradise home, complete with metal holder. Such pencils were found at virtually every Paradise site during an archaeological dig, evidencing the town’s enthusiasm for education. Photograph by Kate Quirk