verification please on an item

[funkman]

due to the amount of rain that fell the past two days I figure, and I was correct, that my house site would be too muddy to dig in somdecided to detect instead. Found a few relics like an old electric plug, part to a lantern, shotgun shell (UMC Co), a clay marble and I think a buckle and 4 memorials. Went back up to the button bush and pulled another tombac out. Tiny like a cuff button.
My son decided to sift through the mud anyway and came up with what I think is a stirrup. Is that what it is? It has "41" stamped on it. Not sure what that means. No other markings on it. The other item he found was a metal "4". Possibly a house number?

anyway please verify if it is a stirrup or not. Hope you all got out today and hunted your coils off!

Funkman

 

[goen 4 gold]

kinda looks like a old mop head, cool finds.

 

[d2]

Perhaps a handle to a shovel with the dowel, that you grip, rotted away...d2

 

[Plumbata]

Perhaps a handle to a shovel with the dowel, that you grip, rotted away...d2

Yes, that is exactly what it is.

 

[funkman]

Yep. I see it now. Thanks all for clearing it up. Would have been nice to find my first stirrup. Its still out there just waiting for me

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds! Thanks for sharing...