Self explainatory

[Reanm8er]

Do any of you folks know at what period of time these brass cattle tags were used?



Used very little.
Dug on Civil War battle site. Perhaps a friendly fire incident, LOL!

 

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[smokeythecat]

Cow tag. They have been used 100 years and occasionally you still see one being used, most now are plastic. Yours is probably 1940's or so.

 

[Gilligan]

I have found an identical tag in a field. Now I know what it was.

 

[smokeythecat]

I have seen numerous tags dug, but have never dug one myself.

 

[RustyRelics]

Sorry about hijacking, here is one my dad found at Brandy Rock farms. I would guess it's about the same age as yours. I'm not sure what kind of metal this is. What kind of signal did you get?

 

[Fullstock]

I have seen numerous tags dug, but have never dug one myself.

I dug one in a Union camp once (I’m sure it had also been used as a pasture at some point) and just KNEW I was digging a plate. It was oval and that confirmed it! Then I wiped off the dirt and....[emoji12]

 

[Reanm8er]

Thanks Smokey I think maybe when I was young they hadn't started using plastic yet but then I
can't remember brass either. That would be a considerable cost today to put one on every animal
in a large herd.

It's probably been 20 yrs since I dug this Rusty. This is one of the few times I used my Fisher CZ 20
on dry land. I didn't find anything else that day but a knapsack button and a bunch of plow parts.
Needless to say, it got my attention! A road construction crew had cut this path through the bush
to make a new entrance to a Firehouse and they hadn't been able to take much of the overburden
away. There were so many limestone ledges that they broke steps and such off the heavy equipment.
I couldn't make sense why any one would have taken a plow in there anyway. This was on part of the
McKay plantation. They were the first actual settlers in our area. They built a log cabin by a spring
a proper stone fortress on the hill behind it and another stone home just north of there. There I found
a picket pin still in the ground just 5 ft off of US rt 340.

Thanks for reading folks!