Fragment of what

[dirty digger dude]

I have no idea what this is...any guesses?

 

[wstgo]

what is it made out of?

 

[dirty digger dude]

well it's not steel or steel alloy. not aluminum, the oxidised color does not look like pewter. It looks old and thats all I can say.

 

[Breezie]

It looks like the top area of a mortar as in mortar and pestle. Breezie

 

[dirty digger dude]

the neck is a little narrow for a mortar.

 

[Breezie]

the neck is a little narrow for a mortar.

What would be the diameter of the neck if it were complete? They came/come in all sizes, and many were small since the nature of use was generally medicines. Here is a website with some modern wooden ones where the Mortar is only 2 5/8" in diameter x 2" to 2 1/4" deep.
http://www.crafty-owl.com/mortar-and-pestle.htm

Breezie

 

[JT]

It may be part of an old tee that fit into piping, the fitting may have split or broke..

http://www.pipetubefittings.com/pipe-fittings/gifs/tee-standard.jpg

 

[Silver Searcher]

Looks like a fragment of a small Bronze Cannon

SS

 

[dirty digger dude]

not a piece of pipe..it has no threads. looks like if you followed the contours it formed a complete container. With out having it here with I am going to guess you could put your thumb in the top with no problem but certainly not much else.
I am not claiming it's a relic but a civil war battle did occurred in this area. I originally though it may have been a grenade but the shape did not match anything of that era so I am sorta stumpped as to what its from. I also searched a civil war re-ennactors supply web site and again nothing ever came close to this. Again - I am stumpped.

 

[DCMatt]

Pewter teapot spout?

Then again... I'm American. What could I possibly know about tea...

DCMatt

 

[Monty]

Half of the neck of a wine bottle that split long the seam? Monty

 

[flinthunter]

Is the inside burnt? Sort of reminds me of a broken smoking pipe bowl.

 

[Tnmountains]

Maybe the bottom piece of a stool or leg that fit over the wood. Kinda similiar to the ant trap ones on my hoosier. May have had a caster in the other end?