Piece of Flintlock Trigger Guard?

[FoundInNC]

Brass, thick, dug alongside early 1800s late 1700s buttons etc. Is it a piece of a trigger guard from a flintlock musket? A flintlock frizzen was found twenty feet away.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Can't say "no". It does look like part of a brass triggerguard, and could have been a flintlock (they were around longer than percussion rifles).

Here is a kinda.

 

[l.cutler]

Possible. but not enough of it to say one way or the other.