✅ SOLVED Probably farm related.

[Blackfoot58]

40 minutes free this afternoon; decided to swing. Found shown items at the farmstead: part of broken tractor/planter seat, carriage bolt w/ Square nut and the item I’m asking for help IDing. Initially I thought possibly another iron piece from the riggings of a plow horse. Any idea welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

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[cajundetector]

40 minutes free this afternoon; decided to swing. Found shown items at the farmstead: part of broken tractor/planter seat, carriage bolt w/ Square nut and the item I’m asking for help IDing. Initially I thought possibly another iron piece from the riggings of a plow horse. Any idea welcome. Thanks in advance.

I believe it’s a horse stirrup. Could be wrong. Found this one a couple years ago.

 

[ticndig]

part of a single tree. see center piece

 

[Fishin-4-a-Livin]

I will be standing by for an answer on this one.

I recently found something very similar.

Found on an old plantation in Mississippi.

 

[ticndig]

I will be standing by for an answer on this one.

I recently found something very similar.

Found on an old plantation in Mississippi.



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see above.

 

[Fishin-4-a-Livin]

see above.

Yep, I saw.

Glad I tuned into this thread!

Thanks.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I believe it’s a horse stirrup. Could be wrong. Found this one a couple years ago.

I messed up. I forgot to put something in the photo to show scale/size. It does look very much like a stirrup, but is actually quite small: 4” long with 1-1/2” opening width. Thanks

 

[Blackfoot58]

I love this site. That was way too quick and easy. Thank you to all!

 

[carnage1on1]

I live in Mississippi as well. I also have dug a few of those. I always thought they are related to logging. I think they are used for cinching logs with a steel cable. It allows for the cable to cinch down on the logs when pulled and releases when cable tension is loose.