🔎 UNIDENTIFIED FOUND IN FIELD NEAR RIVER.

[jrwill56]

FOUND WHERE THERE WAS ACTIVITY SINCE TH

E LATE 16 TH CENTURY IT IS COPPER AND SHAPED LIKE A FISH . HAD THIS NAIL IN CENTER HOLE

 

[PetesPockets55]

Neat and congrats.

Haven't a clue but seems like the nail may have been bent over to keep from getting things caught on it.
The other 5 holes seem to have been created from something being driven into the opposite side of the piece. Wonder if it could have been a primitive "coat" rack?

With only one nail it would have pointed down unless the five holes were what attached it to a horizontal surface.

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a strap to hold pieces of wood together, maybe from an old chest?