✅ SOLVED Mystery Items 1770's - 1820's

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Among the 50 or so flat buttons, that I've found recently, were these mystery items.

I'm most curious about the domed piece. It's about 1.25" diameter, and has a repeated relief of an allegorical figure of "Plenty," a woman holding a cornucopia. We've found numerous pieces of small-swords in this area, and I was hoping that it might be some sort of pommel.

Another piece has a circular hole running through in one direction, and a rectangular hole running through in another direction. Furniture pull?

The last piece looks like a buckle fragment, but I haven't seen another, at this site, that has an oval outer edge and rectangular inner edge.
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The domed piece definitely is from a sword pommel. Very cool find.
 

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Sword pommel base & an 18th C Shoe Buckle bit.
The other piece I forget what it was for, but its a kind of moving joint/hinge.(Half of)
 

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Cool finds whatever they are
 

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Sword pommel base & an 18th C Shoe Buckle bit.
The other piece I forget what it was for, but its a kind of moving joint/hinge.(Half of)

Thank you for the ID's, Crusader! I was hoping that dome-shaped piece could be part of a pommel. We have found parts to three different small-swords in this field. Now, we need to see if any of the parts go together.
 

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