🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Stirrup?

[ncsuwolf]

Finally getting around to giving my iron finds from the past 6 months a nice electrolysis bath. Found a few months back near Richmond Va on a site dating to at least the mid 1850s (mid 1700s within 1/2 mile). Only thing I can come up with is a stirrup, but have never seen/found one like this. Thoughts?

 

[cajundetector]

Finally getting around to giving my iron finds from the past 6 months a nice electrolysis bath. Found a few months back near Richmond Va on a site dating to at least the mid 1850s (mid 1700s within 1/2 mile). Only thing I can come up with is a stirrup, but have never seen/found one like this. Thoughts?

I would definitely vote stirrup 👍

 

[Sandog]

Hard to imagine using those on a horse. Maybe for oxen?

 

[ticndig]

it reminds me of an antique hula hoe

 

[WoodsDigger]

it reminds me of an antique hula hoeView attachment 2200704

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[Gare]

I am NO EXPERT but i do not believe that is a stirrup. On the second thought if it was inside a leather covering then possibly

 

[Rmeav8r]

It could be part of a set of leather covered "buddy stirrups" for a child.

 

[Gare]

I just can not imaging them using a metal stirrup with sharp edges that could injure a horse

 

[Gare]

I think the ones Rmeav8r posted are wooden

 

[ncsuwolf]

I’m thinking Gare is on the right path. They are western style stirrups which may have been leather covered.

 

[Sandog]

I am NO EXPERT but i do not believe that is a stirrup. On the second thought if it was inside a leather covering then possibly

Agree. Way to sharp on those corners. Possibly a frame for a stirrup. OR, something else entirely. Could be a stirrup for something entirely unrelated to animal tack.