old brass spur ?

[pigeonman]

this was found in a field here in south jersey the other day.was it made for a horse or a person.kinda looks like a spur of some sorts.looks to be made out of brass.in this field i have found colonial and early 19th century items.thanks for any help.

 

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[CoolFrayers]

Yep, a brass spur.
Purty:

old:

That makes it "Purty old!"
nice find!

 

[kldrawdy]

Calvary spur, only western spurs have a rowel or little wheel on the end.

 

[duggap]

Calvary spur, only western spurs have a rowel or little wheel on the end.

Say what?

 

[CoolFrayers]

Calvary spurs did have "rowel" or "little wheel on the end"; such as this picture:

Western spurs would more generally have the spikes on the rowel:

(Duggap, he was referring to the disc on the end of the spurs )
However, there are plenty examples of Calvary spurs with spikes

 

[pigeonman]

any ideal of the time period.i also found a naval button from the 1790-1800 period in the same location.war of 1812?

 

[CoolFrayers]

Could very easily be, the timeframe is about right.
Maybe it was a confederate, say from Virginia that was killed and a soldier stole his boots but had no use for the spurs so he threw them aside; right about the time a horse stepped on them which bent them. Makes a mind wonder what that spur would say it saw if it could talk- very cool.
Here, have a look at the entire uniform including your spurs:
http://www.1stvacav.com/equipment.html
It would be interesting to find out who exactly was involved in the war of 1812, then run a uniform search.

 

[kldrawdy]

My apologies, I got the info about the rowel wrong and spelled cavalry wrong to boot.