Horse Tack... CW?

[TKinVA]

I found this on a staging ground for the Battle of Cedar Creek. Got some confederate bullets, Gardiners and Enfields. Any idea if it is Civil War era

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Cry Of The Eagle: History And Legends Of The Cherokee Indians And Their Buried Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice relic recovery, congrats!

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap, what you guys call a horse rosette. Not sure on the time period other than 19th C.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Nice looking horse rosette.
Based on the fact that the back is iron, I'm thinking late 19th - early 20thc.

Dave

 

[TKinVA]

THank you all! When I saw the star.... well you know what I was thinking!

 

[A2coins]

Very cool old relic

 

[RVRoamer74]

Nice dig on the Rosette. Cool design. Congrats!
Was at the 153rd reenactment at Cedar Creek which was when the IED was planted. Crazy weekend.

 

[Davers]

Nice looking horse rosette.
Based on the fact that the back is iron, I'm thinking late 19th - early 20thc.

Dave

I found a couple that were very similar in a late war Calvary Camp some years ago.

The thin Brass faces were mostly gone ( but could see a piece of a star on 1 & think 1 was a bulls-eye design . )

That has always made me wonder if they were period , but Dozens of Spencer's , Sharps , Burnside's , pistol bullets & Coins from 1829 -1839 & 3 Civil War Patriotic Tokens & 1 ( my favorite A OVC Store card . & Regular modern SGB & 45 acp's 22 lr & shorts were all post 1900 IMO.

So in shorter no relics were found that dated from 'what I think ' was the late 1800's; 1870 -1900 's . in particular.

IMO You have a Civil War Rosette , BTW I've never dug one with a Lead or Solider Back ..:
Happy hunting .
Davers

 

[Davers]

THank you all! When I saw the star.... well you know what I was thinking!

Texas or Mississippi ?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I found a couple that were very similar in a late war Calvary Camp some years ago.

The thin Brass faces were mostly gone ( but could see a piece of a star on 1 & think 1 was a bulls-eye design . )

That has always made me wonder if they were period , but Dozens of Spencer's , Sharps , Burnside's , pistol bullets & Coins from 1829 -1839 & 3 Civil War Patriotic Tokens & 1 ( my favorite A OVC Store card . & Regular modern SGB & 45 acp's 22 lr & shorts were all post 1900 IMO.

So in shorter no relics were found that dated from 'what I think ' was the late 1800's; 1870 -1900 's . in particular.

IMO You have a Civil War Rosette , BTW I've never dug one with a Lead or Solider Back ..:
Happy hunting .
Davers

Great background info my friend.
Dave

 

[HI-McDunnogh]

Cool find!

 

[Wildcat1750]

Nice rosette!