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Title: Brass item. Post by: Greg on June 19, 2018, 09:16:57 AM Found yesterday, before the rain, looks equine?
Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Val Beechey on June 19, 2018, 03:35:59 PM Sorry Greg, I haven’t got a clue. Nothing like I’ve seen relating to modern day riding or driving.
Designs don’t change much in the Equine world and it doesn’t look that old. Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Greg on June 19, 2018, 04:48:17 PM Sorry Greg, I haven’t got a clue. Nothing like I’ve seen relating to modern day riding or driving. Designs don’t change much in the Equine world and it doesn’t look that old. Thanks Val, agree it’s fairly modern. Possible identification on another Detecting site, side piece of a Liverpool driving bit and the reversible sliding mouth bit (missing) is the thing that broke it in half, after 1800. Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Val Beechey on June 19, 2018, 07:28:46 PM Absolutely spot on Greg. As soon as I read that it clicked.
I must admit that’s not the first time I haven’t recognised a ‘bit’. My very first decent find was a copper bit with one side ring. I was convinced it was buckle till I showed it to one of my riding friends. She, of course recognised it immediately. Doh :-[ Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: TrefnantSail on June 20, 2018, 09:07:53 AM Liverpool driving bit is spot on. There are an identical pair on some tack in one of the stables at Erddig Hall near Wrexham.
Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Greg on June 20, 2018, 09:24:26 AM Thanks Val and Trefnantsail. :)
Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Resurgam on June 21, 2018, 04:54:34 AM Absolutely spot on Greg. As soon as I read that it clicked. I must admit that’s not the first time I haven’t recognised a ‘bit’. My very first decent find was a copper bit with one side ring. I was convinced it was buckle till I showed it to one of my riding friends. She, of course recognised it immediately. Doh :-[ Wouldn't a copper bit have put a nasty taste in a horse's mouth? Title: Re: Brass item. Post by: Val Beechey on June 21, 2018, 07:03:21 AM Don’t know about the taste Chris but the thinking is the copper has a calming effect.
You can buy bits today with copper rollers on middle part. I never had one for my horse. Didn’t need any calming. If he’d been any calmer he’d have fallen over ! ;D |