Charleston SC Fnds

[smittyman1956]

I found these in an two areas just south of Charleston. I've been told that the item with the 3 circles is a variation of a Celtic Trinity knot . It and the cross were found in an area where there was a Confederate encampment and a small abandoned community. They seem to be made of thin brass or bronze or maybe copper. I've propped them up on a pice of gum and it may be hard to compare to the quarter but the cross is slightly larger than the quarter and the knot is slightly smaller. The center of the back of the knot seems to have been broken and it looks as tho the front may have a piece missing from the center(possibly jewelry?) No markings on either.
The third item was found on Edisto Island in a farm field where there was a house at one time. No ideas of the date of the farm but in the same field one of my buddies found a shield nickel and another a seated dime - the green on my face isn't a patina just envy. This item is flat and heavy like lead and is broken off on the bottom. ( I'm thinking some kind of key?) It's also slightly larger than the quarter.

 

[1859large]

That pumpkin shaped green thing looks like something from Mexico, like a Aztec skelletal head, The eyes nose and teeth look like some kind of scary deaths head type thing. They celebrate the dead there with things like that.

The other thingslook like some sort of jewlery. I have found small pieces of similar brass jewlery here on abandoned farmland which had been settled in the 1800s and abandoned after the Great War. (WW1).

Just a guess.

HH