What is this? How old is it?

[bartshop62]

Found metal detecting in the site of an mid 1800s farm. In picture 6. i stick a tooth pick in it lots of sticky smelly black dirt came out. What could that be. I wonder how old could it be.

 

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[GoldieLocks]

A metal piece that holds a tire into the back door of a Jeep?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is probably a component of the "arm" of a wall mounted natural-gas lamp fixture... similar to the images below. As the filename on one of the images says, from the Victorian Era (mid-1800s-to-very-early-1900s).

 

[dozer dan]

Found metal detecting in the site of an mid 1800s farm. In picture 6. i stick a tooth pick in it lots of sticky smelly black dirt came out. What could that be. I wonder how old could it be. View attachment 1917102View attachment 1917103View attachment 1917104View attachment 1917105View attachment 1917106View attachment 1917107

From your description it sounds like you’ve found ye olde outhouse plunger handle