✅ SOLVED Is this a caltrop? some kinda effigy? plz help

[Steeltowndigger]

Found this magnet fishing, is it a caltrop? basically a spike strip for horses. or some kinda effegy?

it was found at a very old site at one point was the only way from one town to the other before a much larger bridge was built

 

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[Retired Sarge]

It's some sort of media for a tumbler....There's a post somewhere in a deep dusty corner of TNet about them.

Edit to add:

Scroll down to response 5 from TheCannonballGuy in 2016, where he gives an explanation on these being media (Tumbler, mill).

Caltrop, Scrapnel, Slug?

Can anyone confirm and identify the two items? Are they Civil War era artifacts? Is it a caltrop? Or used as scrapnel? Or neither? The Caltrop looking item is magnetic. The slug is not. The slug has a brass look to it. Both items were found in Tuscaloosa County near the city of...

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[ARC]

 

[Nathan W]

Almost looks like it’s a piece from a very early game of Jacks

 

[CaptEsteban]

Looks like it could be a " Caltrop."

Caltrop

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[creskol]

Nope .. not a caltrop.

 

[ticndig]

I'm not saying it is or isn't a caltrop, but if you look at google images there are many for sale described as such offered for sale.

 

[creskol]

I'm not saying it is or isn't a caltrop, but if you look at google images there are many for sale described as such offered for sale.

That's why they say, "know your relics, buy you relics, but don't buy the story."

 

[ticndig]

as far as practicality of the item being a caltrop , it doesn't seem any more dangerous than stepping on a stone. it would seem the very sharp pointy ones would do much more damage.

 

[Steeltowndigger]

It's some sort of media for a tumbler....There's a post somewhere in a deep dusty corner of TNet about them.

Edit to add:

Scroll down to response 5 from TheCannonballGuy in 2016, where he gives an explanation on these being media (Tumbler, mill).

Caltrop, Scrapnel, Slug?

Can anyone confirm and identify the two items? Are they Civil War era artifacts? Is it a caltrop? Or used as scrapnel? Or neither? The Caltrop looking item is magnetic. The slug is not. The slug has a brass look to it. Both items were found in Tuscaloosa County near the city of...

www.treasurenet.com

awesome thanks for doing the digging, that was very informative.

 

[Retired Sarge]

awesome thanks for doing the digging, that was very informative.

Glad I could be of help. I fell for the Caltrop identity back then, as that was what every site I found called them. TCBG's research/knowledge put that rumor to bed.

Took a few minutes to find the original post, but it did bring it back to the top for future needs.