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[Older The Better]

found at 1820's campsite, a few inches long, has a pattern along the rim, made of lead or lead like material very flexible. any insight would be appreciated

 

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[Old Pueblo]

1820s is pretty far back for Kansas history.

 

[Icewing]

Plumbing lead

 

[Tony in SC]

Without knowing the size, it kinda looks like a wornout Babbitt bearing?

 

[creskol]

Without knowing the size, it kinda looks like a wornout Babbitt bearing?

Agreed .. good call Tony!

 

[rick67]

Looks like part of thimble.

 

[pepperj]

Without knowing the size, it kinda looks like a wornout Babbitt bearing?

I can't concur with it being a piece of babbitt bearing as bearing are/were smooth and don't/didn't have decorative design along the edge as this piece has.

Turn the piece 180 degrees and it's the lip/edging off a bowel/cup/vase would be my guess.

 

[tamrock]

Could be lead, could be pewter, could be pot metal? As for what it could be? Who can really say other than it could be a piece of lot of things

 

[Older The Better]

I know 1820's is waaay back but its found among flat buttons and flintlock parts and round balls all of it points towards the 20's conservatively, flint locks and flat buttons could be earlier. no plumbing or evidence of any kind of building within a half mile,

 

[Old Pueblo]

I know 1820's is waaay back but its found among flat buttons and flintlock parts and round balls all of it points towards the 20's conservatively, flint locks and flat buttons could be earlier. no plumbing or evidence of any kind of building within a half mile, View attachment 1517699

Yes, I heard you found round balls and flat buttons and so forth. It just makes me wonder who left that stuff there. Maybe the Native Americans? That doesnt seem quite right though. Back in the 1820s, Kansas was a wild frontier. Im not sure when the first American settlers arrived, but I know they were there by the 1840s and 1850s or so. Very interesting finds! And I hope you find more! These kind of relics are not as common West of the Mississippi as they are to the East of the river.

 

[Older The Better]

and on queue I find this button out there. its easy to fall in love with a theory but I try to remain fluid in my interpretation. it is marked L & Kendrick and dates 1829 to 1835 so I guess that shifts my time frame a bit, looking like the 30-40's now still early for Kansas but encroaching on the date of early 1840's for the first known white settlement in the area and the mission was founded in 48'. I still think somebody had to leave in a hurry to lose so many buttons (11) and important things like a bullet maker and a gun. I go back and forth with it being native American there are indian artifacts all along the top of the bluffs so I find the occasional flake and arrowhead but the metal artifacts seem more European... just going to keep looking and trying to piece it all together that's why I ask about some of the long shot objects

 

[bradyboy]

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