Rowel?

[CoilyGirl]

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Found this at a Civil War site last week,its thin brass and I wondered if it could be a hand fashioned spur rowel? I've seen them made of lead but in a pinch could brass have been used?

 

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[Sheperdess]

Not a spur rowel, sorry.

 

[digging440yrs]

Looks like the top of a can someone opened the old fashion way

 

[BosnMate]

Not a spur rowel, sorry.

No hole in the middle to attach to the spur.
Note the one thing in common with all the different styles is the hole in the middle.

 

[BosnMate]

Looks like the top of a can someone opened the old fashion way

Or a large hole was cut in something by drilling holes in a circle.

 

[JHinPA]

Can you give a reference for size?

 

[Old Dude]

Hope you get an ID, CG. What is your new avatar? Looks like an iron wheeled tractor.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Can you give a reference for size?

I would say the diameter is roughly 6 inches in diameter. I'm thinking it probably wasn't a rowel in the making.Old Dude new avatar is my Minelab and a cool old tractor in Triune Tennessee where we had a club hunt last weekend.

 

[nhbenz]

Oh my, that would be quite a large rowel.
I'm just guessing that it is sheet copper that someone needed a hole in, but lacked tin snips. So, this is their scrap piece rather than the piece they were fashioning into something. Roof flashing for around a vent pipe comes to mind, but makes little sense for where it was found of course.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Could really e anything as there was a creek nearby and stuff could have washed down.

 

[JunkShopFiddler]

I agree with the drill used like a hole saw theory... My Dad always said, "When all you got is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail."
So when all you got is a can, everything else looks like an opener!