✅ SOLVED Unknown Civil War item

[nigelrex]

Fairly sizable iron piece I found in a small creek that is flowing through a valley with civil war campsites on side of hill nearby. Also, this point of the creek is pretty close to the groundwater source (flowing one way) and near a sharp bend (flowing the other way).

Can anyone solve the mystery?

Thanks

 

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[Rookster]

Not saying it's not CW but it could possibly be broken farm equipment etc.

 

[nigelrex]

Could be. There are many acres of farmland nearby.

 

[GoldieLocks]

A bent out of shape anvil?

 

[DCMatt]

Wagon brake pad? Model T drive shaft brake?

Nothing about it says "Civil War" to me...

 

[nigelrex]

I'll go with a big hunk of iron, haha

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Hint: you can have an unknown item. Or a known Civil War item. But you cannot have an "unknown Civil War item" - because you have to know what it is to know that it was war material.

The US has had various metal bits beyond copper for 400 years (1,000 if you include Scandinavian items). But the Civil War was only 4 of those years. 1% chance an unknown item has anything to do with that war.

 

[nigelrex]

Got it. The moral of the story is to be more thoughtful with the subject line of my posts. Thanks