Help! Anyone know what this is?

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cheetah4570

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• Oct 17, 2020

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Found this item fairly deep in a field near Catlett, Va. Field is pretty historical, with Civil War and earlier activity. Iron, measure 2.5 inches wide by 3 inches tall. Seems to have had an edge on the top.

 

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• Oct 18, 2020

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cheetah4570 said:

Found this item fairly deep in a field near Catlett, Va. Field is pretty historical, with Civil War and earlier activity. Iron, measure 2.5 inches wide by 3 inches tall. Seems to have had an edge on the top.

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My first thought when seeing it was that it was a wind up key. Perhaps from an old mantel clock?

 

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• Oct 19, 2020

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Almost reminds me of a broken foot peddle off of a piece of machinery. No clue???

 

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• Oct 19, 2020

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hoser said:

Almost reminds me of a broken foot peddle off of a piece of machinery. No clue???

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Yeah, me too. Brake or clutch peddle off a circa 1935 tractor.

 

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• Oct 20, 2020

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tinsmith said:

Yeah, me too. Brake or clutch peddle off a circa 1935 tractor.

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Could be. Hoping someone has seen something similar before. Or, hoping it was the edge of a homemade hatchet carried by a Confederate soldier riding with Mosby.....

 

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• Oct 21, 2020

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It's an example of the fun it is trying to figure out what the find is. Silver n gold is nice but I've found more "Whatzits" in the past 5 yrs detecting. Its a cool find even if its an old tractor peddle. Hey it may very well be an old Confederate hatchet? Keep it.

 

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• Oct 21, 2020

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Telecom chipping tool end to open up lead-sheathed pulp cable. Still used today.

 

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• Oct 21, 2020

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It is scrap iron.

 

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• Oct 26, 2020

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Kel said:

My first thought when seeing it was that it was a wind up key. Perhaps from an old mantel clock?

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Definitely too big and heavy for that, but that's hard to tell from the photo.