Help with Identification???

soky72 · Mar 3, 2012

Finally got to go metal detecting for first time in a long time and I hit a well worn civil war battle site and found a few items. I was curious if any of the iron in the picture is period or modern such as the wrench? The items are just as corroded as shell fragments I find at the site so they are all old just not sure how old. I don't know what the trigger looking item is but it doesn't appear to be broken.

CoinandRelicMan · Mar 3, 2012

The quarter is probably for size reference. That wrench looks like one my dad has in his misc tools. So doubt it is over 60-80 years old. But I am not expert so just another opinion :BangHead:

RFrady · Mar 3, 2012

The center piece looks like a suspender catch, and beside it is a standard heavy-guage cotter pin like for the center of a wheel.

lost hunter · Mar 3, 2012

oldsalty19 · Mar 4, 2012

CSA2K · Mar 5, 2012

Wow you've really jogged my memory (not an easy task these days). After cleaning does it a a groove running along the top and a hole in the middle? Reference the one on the left in my pic. I found these when I was a kid and assumed they were pistol hammers or triggers of some sort. Never had them properly ID'd. I'll post my pics too..