✅ SOLVED key from colonial cellar-hole

[jude061]

Hi, I'm trying to get an age range on this key found in a cellar hole occupied from c. 1700 to 1814.

 

[jude061]

key -- cleaned up a bit in WD40 and scrubbed with a bronze brush

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Below are pics of some keys from one of my reference books that were found in Rev War camps. Yours certainly appears to be similar so I'd say mid-to-late 1700s which agrees nicely with the occupancy of your site.

 

[jude061]

thanks bill