How old is it?

[suberdave]

I found this lead cross at Elysian Park in LA. Is there any way to tell how old it is aside from carbon Thanks for any help.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Elysian park has turned up oodles of old silver coins to the hardcore turf guys in past years. By now, it's been hammered pretty hard for all the classic 4-start deep-turf-silver signals.

As for your particular target: To be honest with you, it looks like just lead slag from some sort of electrical component (ie.: part of an auto battery insides or something). And the appearance of a Jerusalem cross there seems coincidental.

 

[Tpmetal]

i have no idea why it would be there but it reminds me of this, maybe a button though? can we see more pictures of the back?

 

[suberdave]

View attachment 1433740View attachment 1433741View attachment 1433743View attachment 1433744uh I think it's some sort of button or pin. Also found this a few feet away. Looks to be the same time period. Thanks

 

[suberdave]

also found these, which I put in signs and symbols but no one has responded to yet. Any thoughts? Thanks. Dave

 

[DirtyPockects]

Those rock carvings are awesome

 

[Tom_in_CA]

SuperDave, those could be modern (albeit 1, 2, or 3 decades old) graffiti. Yes, even symbols that appear ancient. I remember when I was a kid, during childhood antics, we'd write graffiti on cave walls. Like "Joe was here Jan. 30, 1878". Thinking the next passerby would get excited thinking they were looking at 100 yrs. old graffiti . So too is it possible that symbols you're looking at are nothing more than graffiti. Even old period graffiti might mean nothing, and have nothing to do with any treasure or goodies.