🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help Identifying Buckle And Button?

[Mr. Sausages]

Found These Two Artifacts In Oregon, On Some Farmland Dating Back To The 1800's. I Believe It To Be A Buckle, And A Button But Not Sure. Can Anyone Help Identify Them Please?

Front side of buckle. The buckle is 2 inches in length and 1 inch 5/8 in width.

When My Nokta Makro Simplex+ detects it the id number shows up as a solid 90. It's not magnetic and appears
to be silver. (the artifact is still dirty and needs more restoration)

Top side of button. It's about a size of a pea and when detected by my Simplex+ the id jumps around 55 and 60.
The button is also not magnetic.

 

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[GlowingArtist]

The "Buckle" looks like a piece of machinery to me. Might be for a belt?

 

[Mr. Sausages]

The "Buckle" looks like a piece of machinery to me. Might be for a belt?

Yeah it could definitely be a machine part of some sorts, I have been finding a lot of tractor parts and old farm tools around where I found so called "buckle". The "buckle" though through further speculation may not be silver but of some other metal(s). Which I believe mainly because it appears corroded in certain areas and silver doesn't corrode.

 

[ColtsPop]

The button, or earring, could date to the 18th century, probably no later than 1870 based on motif and construction

 

[Mr. Sausages]

So FYI the button and "buckle" were found by an old Douglas fir tree dating back to 1785. The area I found these two artifacts was in the Willamette valley in Oregon.

 

[GlowingArtist]

So FYI the button and "buckle" were found by an old Douglas fir tree dating back to 1785. The area I found these two artifacts was in the Willamette valley in Oregon.

Hum, when I lived there we just referred to it as the Willamette river. I have an AA from the local Comm. Coll.