✅ SOLVED Not sure what this is

[TA Roop]

Hi folks...
Hoping someone can help me identify this.

My wife found this last night with my equinox at an old home site we have been hunting. Rang up a 20 on VDI at about 7 inches.
Any ideas?

 

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[Toecutter]

I think its a butt plate for a gun...

 

[TA Roop]

I think its a butt plate for a gun...

Thanks Toecutter...
I was thinking something similar because of the rounded part but I was thinking more along the lines of a handgun and it wasn't making sense to me that a handgun would have that much angle where it rounds off. However, I was not even thinking about an old rifle!! This makes more sense...

 

[Toecutter]

Hopefully one of the experts will chime in and tell us what rifle it was used on...

 

[TA Roop]

Hopefully one of the experts will chime in and tell us what rifle it was used on...

That would be awesome if someone could identify and date it.
I did some more looking and that is definitely what it is (off a rifle or shotgun). Wife is pretty stoked now that we know what it is...

 

[Plug N Play]

Late civil war, post civil war ?
Henry or Winchester.
These two seem close ?

 

[A2coins]

That's a nice relic did you look for the rest of the gun ya never know. Well done. Tommy

 

[TA Roop]

That's a nice relic did you look for the rest of the gun ya never know. Well done. Tommy

Thanks Tommy...
Have not looked that close yet but I have a marker in the field on where we found it. Most of the large signals we end pulling heavy iron scrap so I am a little pessimistic.

Tim

 

[TA Roop]

Late civil war, post civil war ?
Henry or Winchester.
These two seem close ?

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Thank You!!
This is definitely right time period for some of the other artifacts we have found in this location.

lamp fineal
1852 Large cent
1881 and 1900 IHPs
3 old harmonica reeds
a couple of flat buttons