Civil War Artifacts?

[Jerem Worgul]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this website so bear with me. I found these artifacts and I think they may be civil war era.
I found them with a friend while metal detecting near an area know for its civil war significance. I was wondering what some of them are and if they are real and not from reanactors. Could you help me identifying them? Thanks

- the long metal ring is 8 in. long
- the shorter ring has a 1 in. diameter
- the horseshoe-like object is about 5 1/2 in. long
- the metal tubular object is 1 3/4 in. long
- the belt-plate looking object is 1 1/2 long and nearly as wide
- the metal plate is 4 1/2 in. long and about 2 in. wide

[NOLA_Ken]

The only ones I can help you with are the percussion caps, from the color, and condition, I'd say they are likely modern. If you have re-enactor groups in the area they'd be a pretty common find.

[Felinepeachy]

Pics 4 and 5 are part of a horse shoe. 6 looks like an eyelet for a tent or something.

[Bridigger]

Could the long metal ring be the tool used to puncture the gunpowder charge through the primer hole in an artillery cannon?

[Felinepeachy]

Maybe that thing in pic 2 is wand for bubble blowing LOL

[d2]

pictures 8-9 appear to be be friction primers. I bet there has been re-inactments there at some time...d2

[Havilah_Springs]

Pics 4 and 5 are part of a horse shoe. 6 looks like an eyelet for a tent or something.

Could be a worn Horseshoe, but looks to me to be an Ox Shoe, as they have cleft hooves and require two pieces per hoove.

H_S

[TheCannonballGuy]

I was a civil war battle re-enactor, doing both Infantry and Artillery, for about 15 years.

The musket/rifle percussion caps and the pistol percussion cap (which is smaller and has no tabs on its rim) are modernday reproductions, based on their lack of patina. I should mention that they are exact duplicates of Originals, and after enough decades in the ground the Repro ones cannot be distinguished from Originals.

The friction-primer is also modernday-made. Unlike the percussion caps, these are not exact copies of any of the various forms of civil war era cannon friction-primers.

The curved iron object is half of a worn-through horseshoe. It appears to be a 19th-century one, because it lacks "cleats" AND lacks a depressed channel for the nail-heads. It's definitely not an ox-shoe, whose shape is similar but much wider-bodied.

[fossis]

Since nobody said (WELCOME), i'll be the one.

Fossis..........

[Jerem Worgul]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. Better luck in the future!

[TheCannonballGuy]

Jerem, I somehow forgot to include the 8"-long wire (with a sharp point at one end and a loop at the other) in the list of civil war Re-enactors' items I identified in my previous post. That wire is known as an artillery Priming-Wire. It was inserted down through the muzzleloading cannon's vent-hole, to pierce a hole in the bag of projectile-propellant gunpowder, allowing flame from the friction-primer to enter the powderbag. Like some of the other items you found, it too is an exact duplicate of a civil war Original artillery Priming-Wire. But the un-corroded condition of your iron/steel wire shows it is a Reproduction, lost by a battle re-enactor.

I did not notice that the ID-request is your very first post here at TreasureNet. So I too will say "Welcome to the forum, Jerem!"

[Breezie]

WELCOME to the forum! I look forward to seeing more of your finds. Breezie

[High Plains Digger]

The good news is, if you can find the reenactment things, you can find the real things. Just have to go to where they are. Looks like you have become one with your machine, grasshopper.