WOW first Butt Plate

[gunntekk1]

OK this is a good day, first I drop My little girl (16 yrs old) at school, and all these ideas go flashing through my head. So i stick with the MDing idea and I get to the place I have never been to. I start Walking around and I notice a wooded area so what the heck, I head down there and I see a yolk for a horse with some of the leather still in it. So i keep on going and I get a hit I look down and there is a butt plate. Now i need you guys to please try to identify this thing Thanx

 

[Steve in PA]

Nice find! Check the area closely, there may be other gun parts in the area.

Don't have my books here with me at work, but it looks like it could be off a Brown Bess. Does it have any makings - like the British Broad Arrow?

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice haul!

 

[gunntekk1]

I don't see any markings

 

[lost hunter]

Cool find

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[HomeGuardDan]

very nice and off an early gun for sure. Nice one! I would suspect early flintlock.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I think Steve in PA is on it, it looks like a second model Brown Bess plate. I'd keep looking for the rest of it, it might be there.

 

[Ifoundit69]

Nice score !

 

[LAdigger81]

cool finds! ! i found my first artillery shell 2 weeks ago it is a hotchkiss. this is it after cleaning. you can see this and other relics being dug on yutube. at LAdigger81

 

[LAdigger81]

sorry about all the pics messed up

 

[steelheadwill]

Long Land

Looks like it could be a Bess piece...
compare here Bess
I gotta thank the experts here at Tnet for saving my triggerguard fragment from the scrap pile
I only posted a pic because of it's 'familiar' shape

Neat find, Congrats
!

 

[mentalcase222]

Really nice find but i have no idea to identify it.

 

[steelheadwill]

Have you looked in the link I supplied? check the measurements.
details don't seem to match BBs, it's early though

Get back there and find the rest !!

" The 1730 and 1742 Long Lands (No. 2) introduced a 6" stepped brass butt tang and had a thick comb. By the time of the 1756 pattern, (No. 3), the beavertail carving was established and the comb narrowed."

 

[timekiller]

I'd be thinking more like a fowler myself.Here's one I found fits the style better (pic. below).
Take Care,
Pete

Hunting Guns in Colonial America

englishfowler2

 

[gunntekk1]

well Steelheadwill none of those examples match the top of the plate. This one comes to a sharp point, I might have to go with a fowlers rifle but I will check fowler types to be sure and it has the interlocking mechanism on the top

 

[lost hunter]

Very interesting

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[steelheadwill]

Great web page Pete, gotta love 6 foot muskets...
interesting out of 9 examples, only two share the same bore diameter

 

[Gunrunner61]

Cool find, Look good the rest is probably laying there too...................HH

 

[got2dig]

Nice hunt keep it up .