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I am going to try to post multiple pics...
I recently stumbled across an area which I believe to be a Union cavalry officers' mess site. Nearby I have found eating utensils...<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10754/928resize.jpg" alt="" />
Any help with proper identification would be much appreciated.
Thanks and Happy Hunting!
Kent in Memphis
and various other items including a tin "match safe" some small caliber pistol bullets, a .69 calliber minie, couple of rivets, grommet, a watch/clock key, harmonica reed, and various iron rings.
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10754/927resize.jpg" alt="" />
What is the shield looking item from?
Any ideas on the slender item? It has small rings that rotate as if something were threaded through them to make movement easier.
A closer look:
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10754/926resize.jpg" alt="" />
I am uncertain what the item in the center of this next pic is...the rivets on the side make me think it was used with leather...from a saddle or horse harness of some sort, the circular top piece for rope?
<img src="http://findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10754/924resize.jpg" alt="" />
Finally, various iron rings and such, as well as a broken axe head.
<img src="http://www.findmall.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10754/921resize.jpg" alt="" />
 
Thought I'd reduced it enough, until I looked on a dial-up machine at work. Sorry, for the inconvenience, but at least my first multi-pic post was successful. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
luv2croon: very nice stuff. First thanks for putting a scale in the picture. Could be you might have gotten into a trash pit but if you didn't, then you are probably right about being a mess area. I think your "loop with rivets" is homemade and went on a bucket or more likely the handle end of a large spoon or pan. There are a lot of examples in Phillips' old relic book if you can find someone with a copy. The double loop also looks homemade and is a hanger for spoons,pots etc. The grommet is too large for a poncho or rubber blanket and my partner has found several of this size in 1861 camps. we believe it goes to the top of a wedge or wall tent to hold the pins on the vertical poles. Hatchets were also common around mess areas for cutting wood maybe even meat. If the two small bullets are resting on a tin food can (I can't tell) but might be a sardine can which also points to officers as does the stoneware. Next to the key looks like the end of a powder flask. Don't know what your "roller thing" or "shield thing" are. Anyway lots of nice stuff.
Hope some of what I speculate helps you.
Dave Poche
 
The upper left of the safe has a hinge with pin still attached...you can't tell in the pic, but there is a very small floral pattern and what tipped me to it being a match safe was the ridged striking area on the bottom.
Thanks for the insight...you may be right about trash pit, but items have been quite spread out, and I have actually found a few things less than an inch and a half in a area that has had some erosion. Most of the iron has been found about 20-30 feet from where most of the "mess" items were found. Unfortunately, the area I believe to be the tent campsite area is under a parking lot and a building (which is located on a nearby hill crest). I use your techniques, Dave, and envision the topography as it once may have been, and try not to get sidetrack by what's there now.
I will be digging all signals and will keep you posted. Thanks for reading.
BTW, will you be at the Shiloh hunt in May? Am thinking about it and would like to meet you in person.
Kent
 
Kent: Thanks for saving a little CW history. I really hate it when paradise is paved by a parking lot. Wish I could be at Shiloh in May. I had a direct relative in the 18th LA. who received a field commission after the battle also several other family "cousans" in the 18th. Keep up the good battle. Dave
 
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