Timekiller said:
Just trying to make lite of the silly mess.But will say this none (that means 0,zero) of those type rings ever show up on my colonial type sites.The only time they start showing for me is when I get into the sites that are late 1800's-early 1900's.And as soon as they due all I have to do is look around a little and I start seeing old engine parts rather it be from old tractors,cars,trucks,boats or what have ya.I'm going to leave the copper bronze statement alone.So you can feel good about yourself.
I have no idea why my statement of trying to separate 2 distint types of ring would cause such a fuss. Most of us must know by now that the thin brass ones are more modern & the heavier bronze/copper-alloys ones with the circular cross-section are older. My point about them being 2000 years old clearly doesn't cover the modern flatter copper/brass types (and has nothing to do with the US found examples).
Plus, I made a simple point, that the older types did not have 1 single use, that was all.
What doesn't help this post is the
mixture of BOTH types in 1 photo...