🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Metal detector find at the beach metal thingy

[rickertmork]

What could it be? Nothing too important perhaps.

 

[Gare]

Robert when i was a kid we had a few of these and yes we used them for opening bottles. The flat spots on the loop were for opening bottles. If they took off the crust i bet there would be flat spots like on my bottom picture

 

[Gare]

Can you knock the built up crude off the bottom of the loop ?

 

[rickertmork]

Can you take the heavy stuff off the bottom of the loop?

I think so , should I?

 

[cajundetector]

It is wrought iron you can tell by the linear striations that is the grain of the material. That outs it at about earlier than 1910.

I agree that it is wrought👍. Looks like horse tack to me, like part of a hitching post. May be wrong though.

 

[Gare]

Yes gently break the stuff off.

 

[rickertmork]

Yes gently break the stuff off.

Ok and what should expect to find

 

[Gare]

Ok and what should expect to find

What the rest of the item looks like

 

[k0bgalan]

I got this photo off eBay, as it was the only one I could find. Nonetheless, it fits the bill.

 

[Gare]

Not all those type openers had the little flat piece at the top either

 

[rickertmork]

I tried smashing it a bit the material is really caked on there and very dense, I will try a more aggressive method suppose

 

[rickertmork]

Smashed it some more

 

[Gare]

WEll I do not think you hurt it. I do not think it is a bottle opener now. What about a small tent stake ?

 

[rickertmork]

Just took a Dremel to it. So I originally found this in an area on the beach where a storm piled up piles of dirt, and I was detecting the piles, so I do think it’s old, Idk tho.

 

[Gare]

When i was kid i was a boy scout. Some times we would use a pup tent to sleep over night. We some times used something similliar to this . We puit them in the ground at an angle to hold the tent in place