Late 18th Early 19th Century Brass ornamental things?

[Lost Signal]

Found the bottom one, with the maker's mark, about a year ago. Then, found the upper one, yesterday. Pretty much everything on the site is late 18th early 19th c. The first one I thought might be like an ornamental brass from a musket, but the new one shows that there were two rectangular voids or notches, and now I can see they were on the first one, as well.

I did't lose any sleep pondering the first one, but now that I have found two, I'm curious.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

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[nkellam22]

Top photo could be a buckle fragment.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

The top relic looks to be furniture hardware of some sort, due to the nail/screw hole.
It also looks to have suffered surface damage due to fire... did the house on site burn?

The bottom button fragment looks to be cast tombac, probably dates to the early 19thc.

Dave

 

[Lost Signal]

The top relic looks to be furniture hardware of some sort, due to the nail/screw hole.
It also looks to have suffered surface damage due to fire... did the house on site burn?

The bottom button fragment looks to be cast tombac, probably dates to the early 19thc.

Dave

Thanks, Dave! I was wondering about the construction of that button. "Cast tombac" makes sense. I've never found another one like that, so it kills me that it's broken.

The other things remain a mystery (there are two of them). But, I think you are right. They're probably backing plates or something like that. I'll look at some furniture pictures.

I don't think the house burned, but the fields have had burn piles over the years and if the object had been near the surface, it definitely could have suffered burn damage.

Thanks, again.