Odd Field Finds

[Old Dude]

Hi all. Got out this morning in a new corn field. The farmer is working his way up the river planting, so I had to do a quick search hoping to find the hot spots in this new field. Found these oddities. Any help with ID's would be appreciated. I thought the little disc shaped items were silver dimes when I first saw them in the hole. They are 17.5 mm ( .690 in ) and I think made of lead. A magnet does not stick to any of the items. Thanks for looking.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

The rectangular-bodied curved brass object looks like a broken shackle from an antique padlock.

 

[Subterranean]

Your brass or copper flattened piece looks like the rear half of the bowl of a spoon, with the handle broken off right at the edge. Could the round lead objects be shotgun slugs of some sort? Sub

 

[bigfoot1]

the round slugs may be a form of hem or curtain weights...a simple guess

 

[Old Dude]

The rectangular-bodied curved brass object looks like a broken shackle from an antique padlock.

Thank you. That may very well be it. The pin would be what it pivots on, I suppose.

 

[Old Dude]

I don't think the lead disks have a lot of age to them. Not sure if you can see in the first pic, but one set has 2 sections and is bent while the other ( the one in the second pic ) has 3 sections as seen in that picture. I thought I had 2 dimes stuck to each other when I found the first one. Thanks for your replies.

 

[rick67]

The first pic is Steve of P.A.'s avatars.

 

[Old Dude]

The first pic is Steve of P.A.'s avatars.

Lol, Rick. I suppose it does look like his avatar.

 

[Old Dude]

Your brass or copper flattened piece looks like the rear half of the bowl of a spoon, with the handle broken off right at the edge. Could the round lead objects be shotgun slugs of some sort? Sub

The brass or copper piece looked like it had the shape of a shield when I first found it, Sub. I was hoping when I rubbed the dry dirt off to see letters or some numbers on it, but there were none.

 

[Old Dude]

the round slugs may be a form of hem or curtain weights...a simple guess

When I googled hem weights, the pictures certainly did look like these except they all had either 2 very small holes or 2 half moon-shaped holes on either side of the solid center. Other than the 2 holes instead of one, they were identical, so maybe you're right BF.