Help ID this lead trinket

[thumperjones]

Found this in a median in the middle of the street. Looks to be a lead pendant of some sort. says "363 A" on one side, and "SAY" or "SRY" or something on the other. The lettered side looks to have had a ferrous wire loop folded into it at one point.It was about 6 inches deep, and in a spot where I've found a few Civil War buttons at about the same depths. Also right next to a railroad that was destroyed and rebuilt in the 1860s. I'm not thinking this thing is that old, just throwing out any info I can think of. Never seen one before, have you got any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[Oldguy]

Lead seal from a trucking or shipping company.

 

[RustyNTX]

n/t

 

[407floyd]

It's old enough to be from a railroad car. "S.RY." may be a railway in the area where you found it.

 

[1859large]

Lead seals have been around for hundreds of years and where used on many things, bales of wool, cotton, etc. They where used to indicate that a bale or sack has not been tampered with or pilfered from, the number of items that might have used seals is endless. They existed long before trains and as other have said are still in use today to ensure electric meters have not been tamper with. A search of American railways from the 1860s might turn up which railway it might have been.

HH