✅ SOLVED Detecting at an 1850's stage stop

[Matten138]

Is this just a reins guide or something else? Cast iron, couple makers marks, no rope wear. How would it mount securely with the taperd stem? Is it even that old?

 

[pepperj]

Rein guide or an oar lock.
Thinking more on the oar lock thought as some rein guides had a threaded stem.
Though if the site is totally away from water, a rein guide would be the choice.

Nice recovery BTW.

 

[creskol]

I think it is a repurposed terret with the threads ground off.

 

[Gare]

I am voting for what PepperJ said . i think it is an oar lock

 

[Blackfoot58]

The inside diameter seems small for most oar locks, IMO.
I think a rein guide that had been modified.

 

[Gare]

Well i just do not see a way to attach it to a yoke . Creskol maybe be right and part of it ground off. But if there is no way to attach it to something then it would have to slip down in a small hole

 

[Gare]

There has to be a way to attach it to a collar or part of a wagon or carriage. I see NO indication of any way to hold it in place. It may not be a oar guide but i am sure it slips into something that turns (swivels)

 

[Matten138]

Looking like it's probably an oar lock. The stage stop is on a lake and k found a few pictures of oar locks online (see below) that are very similar. Thank you!

 

[cudamark]

All the oar locks I've found are made of brass.

 

[Almy]

Does look like an oarlock, but an oar that small in diameter would be pretty "whippy".