Help identifying please

[Meldal68]

I dug this item very close within 100 yards of The Battle of White Oak Road in dinwiddie, VA. Can anyone help me identify is?

 

[Bruce R]

Trace chains from a spring wagon.

 

[Meldal68]

Civil war era?

 

[Bruce R]

Well.......... The civil war era was what, 4 or 5 years ? The horse- drawn era was decades and decades. Without military insignia present its impossible to nail down, sorry !