✅ SOLVED Found at at an old farm/house site....

[Jaysix]

Any ideas on what this could be? I thought it was a crotal bell when I got down to it because all that I could see was part of the round end bit then this thing came out of the ground.

 

[diggummup]

It's a harness hame.

 

[creskol]

It's a harness hame.

Diggummup got it .. It is a hame topper. Nice find!

 

[Jaysix]

Thanks everyone!

 

[old digger]

Polish it up and use it as a nice walking cane handle.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Just confirming for you what Creskol's photo of a Hames shows. Image showing variations of harness hames brass toppers for sale in an Eilers & Company horsegear catalog from the very early 1900s.