✅ SOLVED Brass piece, deep near bronze spikes ?

[Trimbaker]

This one is really puzzling me. Almost looks like a percussion hammer from a rifle, but looks like it would hold one end of a handle to a chest. There seems to be a countersunk hole showing at the broken end, where a screw may have been. Anyone up for a guess? Thank you for your thoughts, George.

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a hinge for a toilet seat?

 

[Joe hunter]

Looks like it’s off an instrument,clarinet key?

 

[creskol]

Looks like a hinge for a toilet seat?

Agreed

 

[Trimbaker]

Looks like a hinge for a toilet seat?

OOO...it does. hmmm, from the depth of the dig and the proximity to the 1700-1800's bronze ship spikes, I am going to think it was not from a toilet seat. I do not think this island had any plumbing, as it is still uninhabited. This stuff is coming from deep in the clay out a few yards in the water. I do not find any modern-ish material in the depth of this and the spikes.

 

[Trimbaker]

Looks like it’s off an instrument,clarinet key?

It does, (I used to have one) but it is built really heavy. Not delicate like an instrument. I thought that too when I first held it. : )

 

[HuntinDog]

If what you say is true... It was most likely from the ship you are finding the bronze spikes from.

 

[ticndig]

maybe it's from the ships toilet seat ?

 

[Trimbaker]

maybe it's from the ships toilet seat ?

I really hope so. It makes me think I need to look about fifty feet from that spot to find the good stuff...That must be it.

 

[Trimbaker]

maybe it's from the ships toilet seat ?

It must have been a catastrophic moment that destroyed the ship if way down in the captains head, the hinges to the seat were blown apart! : ) I will expand my search.

 

[Trimbaker]

solved. toilet hinge piece. Thank you each and all. George.