🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Belt buckle part of kettle point?

[Glen's Loyalists]

So I was going thru some the the bits and pieces of items I have found and came across this, which I found on the farm last year.

The cut outs on the wide top end looks like it it would have been tied to something, similar to a kettle point. However, it has a curve more like a buckle pin. As you can see it is fairly thick, pointy but not sharp.

Any thoughts?

 

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[pepperj]

So I was going thru some the the bits and pieces of items I have found and came across this, which I found on the farm last year.

The cut outs on the wide top end looks like it it would have been tied to something, similar to a kettle point. However, it has a curve more like a buckle pin. As you can see it is fairly thick, pointy but not sharp.

Any thoughts?

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Seems to have some thickness to it also.
I'd vote for a Kettle Point.
Nice save.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Yeah I'd vote kettle point that hit something hard to cause it to bend. Super cool find.

 

[smokeythecat]

Well it's thicker than most kettle points. It may be the older copper culture. What state do you live in?

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

Well it's thicker than most kettle points. It may be the older copper culture. What state do you live in?

This was found in Nova Scotia, Canada. The The Mi'kmaq live here.

 

[smokeythecat]

There are numerous copper occurrences in Nova Scotia, so I'm going with copper culture which predates the kettle points by a lot.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

There are numerous copper occurrences in Nova Scotia, so I'm going with copper culture which predates the kettle points by a lot.

Okidokie smokey. I think you are onto something here. It certainly does look like float copper now that you mention it. It has that thickness and texture of natural copper. Even cooler than a kettle point. Great something else to add to the bucket list now.

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

There are numerous copper occurrences in Nova Scotia, so I'm going with copper culture which predates the kettle points by a lot.

Really! Wow, I am surprised. I am going to have to dig through all my unidentified relics, thanks.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Really! Wow, I am surprised. I am going to have to dig through all my unidentified relics, thanks.

Let us know if you find anything interesting. If you look at my avatar Pic, those are my copper culture relics. The small one in the center is a dart tip that I miss identified as junk initially. Turns out it's thousands of years old. So glad I didn't toss it and later found it.

 

[smokeythecat]

The MAJOR copper mines in Nova Scotia occur in Halifax County, at Argyle in Yarmouth County, in Cumberland County and in Digby County.