Help! What Is This?

[twalton]

The body looks like brass or bronze with some iron pins or rivets. I was relic hunting in a wheat field earlier this spring, near an old farm house that's falling down.
Planning to go back once the wheat stubble is mowed down. Thought I would ask the experts what it might be.

HH, twalton

 

[brnn53]

Hmmm.... I have no idea. It is interesting though. Keep hitting that site. Something good will turn up. HH!
Mike

 

[d-2]

I'm gonna guess it's the top to a powder flask, thats what it looks like to me...d2

 

[Macaco]

If so then it is ooooooold.

Could be though if you're finding really old stuff in the same area.

Wikipedia-Wheellock

Ha! The board software scrambled the word 'cocking'. That's idiotic.

Ok. A mechanism that you pry back with your thumb in order to prepare a firearm for firing.