Unknown find in Winder, Georgia

[tjspringfield]

Hello everyone. I found this a couple months ago about a foot deep with my metal detector behind a buddy's house. Nobody was ever able to identify it. does anyone know what it is? its pretty heavy and I think it is iron

thank you

 

[Brian C.]

It looks like it was some part of a weight, the shaft would have slid down the opening, just a wild guess.

 

[tjspringfield]

everyone who has guessed has said something similar to that, it being some kind of weight. how old you think it is?

 

[Scrappy]

Scale weight from an old commercial balance scale. Had one in a commercial fish house I worked in in Massachusetts

 

[tjspringfield]

How old are we talking do you know?

 

[tjspringfield]

How old are we talking do you know?

 

[Scrappy]

Those balance scales go pretty far back. I would think the late 1800s is plausible but that's just a guess. Research and let us know!

 

[jhumbert40]

Nice find....Nothing like finding things that are old....

 

[GaRebel1861]

Have you found anything else nearby that can be dated? May give you an idea of a possible age.

 

[GA_Boy]

It looks something like this. See the big weight under the OTO. It could have been from the JUG Tavern.

http://www.cityofwinder.com/index.aspx?page=41

 

[tjspringfield]

Oh yeah that looks like what it could have been definitely. and who knows, maybe it was from jug tavern. I didn't find anything else nearby it