✅ SOLVED Broken clamp

[Icewing]

I found this within a few feet of where I found some dropped civil war bullets, and it was just as deep, but I don't know what it was.

 

[nhbenz]

Hmm, a lot of kitchen gadgets that clamped to a table; apple peeler, cherry pitter, etc.
It looks like there may be some text on it which might point us in the right direction if it can be cleaned up further?

 

[releventchair]

Table clamp grain grinder maybe.
There were coffee substitutes used during the war in places too.

 

[Icewing]

Close enough, thanks guys.