Cool Find! Any Ideas??

[Austin50]

Posted on the wrong forum, let me try this one.
I fould this on the edge of my farm field a couple days ago.
I grinded on the back (prob not a good idea) to see what type of metal it was.
Button? Broach? Brass? Gold? Age?
I found it about 10 to 12" deep.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

On such objects, the "form" used for attaching it to something else can indicate the object's ID, and sometimes also indicate its general time-period.

Regarding your mystery-object:

1- It is solid-cast brass (not thin machine-stamped sheetbrass).
2- It has an "ornate" front.
3- It is approximately 1.25-inches in diameter.
4- It had two long-ish, wide but thin sharp-tipped prongs on its back, which were curled over when it was attached onto something else. As shown in your photos, one of its two attachment-prongs is broken off. Being thin, wide, long, and curled is a strong indication it was attached to a piece of leather.

Combining all of those characteristics, in my opinion your object is a decorative ornament used on leather, made sometime in the Colonial era through the early-1800s. It is most likely from leather horse-equipment, such as a saddle or horse-harness or a saddlebag. But it could be a carriage ornament... and there are a few other possibilities. I've given you what I think is the most-likely possibility.