Found this near a cellar hole in the berkshires. I was wondering if anyone knew how to date it. Weve found stuff as old as revolutionary war but this seems newer. The arrowhead shaped arms attached to the tread made me think it would be easy to identify, but nothing. Im pretty sure its brass.
>>2867188yeah, the ovoid foot is meant to have a rubber pad inserted, which was a mid-20th century and later thing
>>2867188Fellow metal detectorist here, hello! A local museum has a collection of these. These were used from around 1780-1860 and came in many different designs, made of bronze or brass. While the date of manufacture is not known, this stirrup was probably used by an officer in the Revolutionary War as you suggested.>>2867231Yes, modern stirrups use these rubber pads, but what OP posted isn't made for them. They didn't used those pads yet.
>>2867188>>2867209looking at this hurt my neckreverse image search corroborates >>2867235's info, either Revolutionary War (or Civil War)
>>2867235>>2867239Thank you for your input! I had one other guy from this area say possibly civil war era. It was actually found on a rock wall and hit so hard on the detector I thought it was probably trash and almost didn't bother digging it. Same thing happened with this brass boot buckle I found by the CT river.
>>2867280I put it on the dollar bill for scale, its larger than most of the buckles ive seen pulled out of the area.
