🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Tinned iron something

[Older The Better]

I found this thing today at a site that tends to date from 1860 to 1870. I think there’s a Homestead there that was later burned and then subsequently added to a farm field and just farmed over for the next 150 years so it could’ve fallen off of any number of pieces of equipment, but assuming it’s original to the Homestead area… I’m Kind of curious if anybody has any idea what it is. This is basically how it came out of the ground and all I did was take a toothbrush and brush the dirt off underwater. clearly whatever is around the outside doesn’t rust and it appears to be an iron core judging by the rust on either side. That’s why I don’t really have a good VDI It gave me a mid tone, but it was probably reading both metals. It’s got a groove in the middle with I think a couple smaller grooves and it’s just the right size for a pencil eraser type deal except for if it’s filled with iron. I know it’s not exciting, but I’m still trying to put together all the pieces of this site in this feels like it could be helpful. It’s definitely unique to the site oh, and also no seam that I can make out

 

[Jack873]

Lead solder?

 

[JCR]

Looks like a roller bearing but the plating is odd.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

That is most definitely a something

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Identify the silver metal in the outside and the inner material. That will help with the identification.

 

[robertk]

It looks like an old capacitor to me. Even has what looks like the two electrical connections on one end.

 

[creskol]

I think it is a hinge pin, or perhaps a damper pin from an early cook stove. Also, it looks more like nickel plating.

 

[Older The Better]

Thanks for looking I could see the capacitor. I’m not sure of material but I know the nickels I’ve found at the site get toasted red, and I assume you wouldn’t put silver over iron… if it is from 1860-1870 it’s probably not aluminum, that leaves tin or pewter that I can think of. The stove angle is a strong possibility too, i definitely have an old stove on site… that was a day… strong signal and I dug and it was deep and when I finally hit metal I had to expand my little hole into a 4’ wide crater. Then when I pulled the remains of a stove out I had another predicament, I couldn’t just leave it in the field so I had to haul it home… but anyway stove part would be plausible