Mystery lid

[JM1184]

I dug this earlier from about 10" behind a cellar hole dating from the 1690s, the entire site is heavily contaminated with early 1900-1920s railroad debris, bottles, spikes, cans etc. This was the only interesting item I found other than some early 1900s local beer bottles and a few medicine bottles. I can't find any info about the item on the Internet. It appears to be tin, some type of lid or cover.

 

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[jewelerguy]

I believe this was part of brooch. I would date it to somewhere around 1900 give or take a few years

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The figure on it is Athena, the Greek goddess of Wisdom, of Courage, and of War. She is typically seen wearing a Greek military helmet atop her head (not, of course, covering her face). The photo below shows a 2,000-year old statue of Athena, with helmet as usual. If you want to learn more, go here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena