🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Lead something

[grins]

Found this on a multi component site. It is one millimeter thick. Wondering if anyone has run into something like this.

 

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[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

It could be almost anything. Lead has been in use for millennia. How old are the other things you find there?

 

[Blackfoot58]

Possibly part of a lead seal.

 

[Tpmetal]

Lead was sold in strips or bars for use in anything from making pipe seals to casting fish weights and bullets. The only thing I question is if it was sold like this with the textured surface or if that was from being already used on something.

 

[releventchair]

Looks like a single cut file pattern.
Two files togethers width would create a width to dress a groove/kerf accordingly. A shim between them would create a wider groove. Tighter making for a more accurate straightness and keeping an end or ends from being wider than near the center.

IF only one side shows pressed file mark; a piece of harder than lead flat stock could have sufficed for the other side..

Not saying that is what your lead piece had going on.
Someone could have been building a surface up and grabbed a file as a shim. Then needed greater dimension and used the lead with it. And who knows what else?

 

[grins]

It could be almost anything. Lead has been in use for millennia. How old are the other things you find there?

I have found artifacts from the 1860s forward. I did find a knapsack hook in close proximity.