Springfield?

[iukams]

Dug this piece the other day and trying to identify it. I know it's a musket lock plate. Just trying to figure what brand.

 

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[NOLA_Ken]

It's the right shape for an 1861 or 63 Springfield, are there two screws broken off behind the hole where the hammer was?

 

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