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[DirtDigginJunkie]

I found these two metal o-ring like objects at a mid to late 1700’s dig site. I have found over 30 buttons and 6 coppers, along with other odds and ends but have no idea what these might be.

 

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[HuntinDog]

There is a possibablity they are (jewelry)rings.
Can you tell us what metal they are?
and maybe a closeup pic

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

Not sure of the metal unless you can suggest ways of finding out. The second pic is of the stuff I have found there along with it, hope that helps.

 

[rick67]

I find them also. Still no solid ID.
Before some says it. There not compression rings for spark plug.

 

[HuntinDog]

Not many sparkplugs in then1700s

are they magnetic?

They look brass or bronze so I'm still thinking Jewelery

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

Not magnetic

 

[nsdq]

Pulls for curtians ?

 

[Fourman110]

Stealth Diggers CCR, extra small!

 

[nsdq]

Hose gaskets old school styles

 

[jeff of pa]

Early spark plug Rings

Not everything on a 1700's Site will be from the 1700,s
unless the site has been in a Vacuum for 300 Years.

sorry ! my uneducated opinion

But I do find allot of Them, & That was what I was originally told they were.

I hunt allot of picnic groves and ball parks, not from the 1700's

 

[Icewing]

Copper Seal / Ring Gaskets

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[jeff of pa]

I to Icewing

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

The site WAS in a vacuum seal, [emoji38] I found all of this within 100 sq ft area. Plug rings or copper gasket was my first thought when I pulled them out of the dirt but it just doesn't fit in with the elements of the site. Thank you for your suggestions though.

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

Only this stuff, by the way, nothing else was found so far.

 

[smokeythecat]

Also, back in the day, 18th century day that is, brass rings like that had thread woven through these like spokes in a wheel. They were used to hang curtains.

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

That, I can believe Smokey

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

I just find it hard to believe that out of the fifty or so items I found in such a small area, all be 18th century except for those two rings.

 

[DirtDigginJunkie]

 

[CRUSADER]

We call them 'Ring Things' we find them everywhere. Had 2 today. Some of ours go back the the Roman period, but most are Medieval / Post Medieval. They had turns of uses including horse harness rings & suspension loops on the persons belt etc... Some where thought to be the basis of a cloth button in the 18th C.

 

[DCMatt]

We call them 'Ring Things'. Some where thought to be the basis of a cloth button in the 18th C.

Sometimes called 'Dorset buttons' - made from the early 17th C to mid 19th. Buttons made by weaving yarn or thread around a metal ring.



You can still find supplies and instruction for making them today.