Metal bar of some sort

[nowforever13]

Hi I'm blade. Kinda new to the hobby anyway I found this metal bar on a colonial era slave and civil war hospital house here in tn. It is ferrous and has what looks like gray lead oxide on it but also red rust Please help me identity this material as there are no metallurgist near me and I am unable to upload a picture as my phone makes them to big

 

[brianc577]

Cannot help with out pics

 

[BillF]

Get Photo Resizer.

 

[nowforever13]

here is the bar ( sorry i work alot)

 

[HuntinDog]

Thanks for the picture, but I think we are going to need better ones.
One showing the full piece and some showing all sides and with something for a size reference.
that being said from the picture I think it looks like a broken off end of a lawn mower blade.

 

[nowforever13]

2 inches tall, by 4 inches wide, by 7 inches long. it could be steel... it is really heavy

 

[Silverleen]

have you looked up the size of shells during that war?

 

[Woodstock]

It looks like iron maybe a iron ingot with some of it removed by a Blacksmith ... it's hard to see how this was ever utilized or it's purpose by it's shape ... my best guess is iron ingot ... Woodstock

 

[nowforever13]

It is flat on the bottom. And rustic... Not a shell and its not a piece of farm equipment either

 

[HuntinDog]

Thanks for the new pictures. They are great.
Sorry though, after seeing these pics I have no clue.
Good luck

 

[nowforever13]

I found it on a revolutionary homestead... By a slave hut

 

[Elton]

End loop broken off for window rope attachment..There were some big windows in the plantations homes..and of course the slaves would have to change them if they broke...

 

[nowforever13]

Can we assume that is what it is lol.. It is heavy and was found by a slave hut also I found a coal pit directly behind the hut the current owner had no idea it was even there found aabout 4 inches under ground... Those weights worth anything?

 

[Elton]

Can we assume that is what it is lol.. It is heavy and was found by a slave hut also I found a coal pit directly behind the hut the current owner had no idea it was even there found aabout 4 inches under ground... Those weights worth anything?

Not sure about value....if you could prove what it is for sure..and how old it is..Might have a small relic value to someone ........... Coal pit might be where heating stove and cooking stove coal was kept.the building rotted away over the years or torn down...or it might actually be a coal dump ...some pieces didn't burn in the stove while using it...

 

[nowforever13]

Interesting to say the least... I'll go back up there and search around the hut and barn... The barn was used to form the state of franklin and was built at the exact time of the house and then used as a church for a few years in the late 1700s been searching that area but thanks
Any tips for a beginning detectorist lol

 

[copper kidd]

it could have been a gate weight , used to shut the gate automatically after walking through it.

just a thought.