🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Part of a lantern?

[savinghistoryalway.s]

What’s the age? I dug it in a mid 1800s property house

 

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[giuhalftrack]

looks like the part of a tripod for survey instruments.. the part on the bottom is to attach a plumb line for mark the point on the ground, the screw is where the plate rotate to measure azimuth angle...
The school of mines that I attend here in Italy was founded in the 1849 saw a lot of that tripods in the museum. maybe the legs was of wood.