✅ SOLVED Unknown items

[nigelrex]

I'm curious about these two items were found next to each other (plus a rusted coin) under an uprooted oak tree in a known civil war camp area. An SNY buckle was found in the creek a couple of hundred feet away. It is in a farming area.

 

[Noah_D]

Looks like some buckles, other than that I can't be of any help. Was the coin rusted (refers to ferrous metals only) or just corroded real bad?

 

[nkellam22]

Pry horse tac buckles, 1800s

 

[Peyton Manning]

Do you mean you don’t know they’re buckles?
Or that you want specifics on them?

 

[nigelrex]

Corroded bad with rust.

 

[smokeythecat]

I dug a lot of these in Union CW camps over the years. I believe most were used either on haversacks or horse leather.

 

[nigelrex]

Corroded bad with rust.

 

[nigelrex]

I had Kepi buckle in my head, so helpful to hear horse buckles. Also found a horseshoe recently, so interesting to see a picture of the unit starting to form.

 

[nigelrex]

Thanks

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I had Kepi buckle in my head, so helpful to hear horse buckles. Also found a horseshoe recently, so interesting to see a picture of the unit starting to form.

Kepi buckles didn't have hinged tongues.

For reference: it is very helpful to include a ruler or something common like a coin in the images so viewers have some idea of size.

 

[CRUSADER]

Common 19th C horse harness buckles.