Copper disc 11 inches wide but thin.

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I have been working some old logging roads in a big plot of private forest in the Adirondacks. Sparing you guys all the nails, broken hitch pins , chain links etc !

I came across this big hunk of copper. It has a hole punched in it from a punch or bullet. Looks like it had something iron crimped into it. It's 11 inches in it's present kinda wadded up shape. Very thin resembles a lid , a plate or barrel seal from a container not sure but it's a fine hunk of copper. Looks like a horse stepped right square on it.

 

[MasonDixonMding]

Could it be half of a canteen? That’s the only thing that comes to mind.

 

[spence]

It could be ! Would have been carried by a timber harvester . Might be older than 1880 but I'm skeptical. 1850 key date for floating softwoods like pine to downstream mills. 1850 up to 1940 . Half horses later on I suspect mechanized logging but horse tack has prevailed.

 

[spence]

It could be ! Would have been carried by a timber harvester . Might be older than 1880 but I'm skeptical. 1850 key date for floating softwoods like pine to downstream mills. 1850 up to 1940 . Half horses later on I suspect mechanized logging but horse tack has prevailed.

Half horses half mechanized , the hardwood would sink so the mechanized half took care of land transport of logs to mills.

 

[hoser]

Well not sure, but given its thin and round, found at an old logging site, it may be a copper rupture disk from a steam logging locomotive. Other than that, possibly a pot lid.