🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Crude copper ring or a piece of copper junk?

[perdidogringo]

I dug up this crude piece of circular copper today and am wondering if it is an old ring or something else? There's nothing inscribed on it that I can see. For some context, I was searching in an area that had some native american (for several hundred years) and pioneer (from about the 1820s and on) settlements. Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[perdidogringo]

It's the end of metal detecting season here in Illinois and I still wonder about this find. Is it an old copper ring or a piece of discarded cut piping?

I'm reviving this thread in case there others who missed it before but may have an opinion.

 

[Tony in SC]

I would say old carnival trinket.