Oxbow Pin Fragment
Component, Vehicle
Fragment
Linchpin
Tack, Animal
Yoke, Animal
Yoke, Neck
1849 – 1860 (Earliest/Latest dates)
1850 (Beaches)
1850 (Date manufactured/created)
1850 (Beaches)
1850 (Date manufactured/created)
Wrought Iron
An oxbow pin with small circular pincers with a metal pin running through the center of the circle made by the bowed pincers. This metal pin extends past the circle made by the pincers. Recovered from the 1974 A. A. Hotchkiss & Sons excavation site in Sharon, CT.
An oxbow pin with small circular pincers with a metal pin running through the center of the circle made by the bowed pincers. This metal pin extends past the circle made by the pincers. It was removed from the A. A. Hotchkiss & Sons excavation site in Sharon, CT. An excavation of this site was conducted in 1974 by Mark Cohn. Almost 74 other objects were uncovered at this site.
An animal yoke is placed over the shoulders or neck of a tack animal to allow people to attach rope or chains to the yoke in order pull a heavy load. The yoke is held in place by two bars looped around the neck of the tack animal. These bars would have a hole bored through the sides of the end of the bars. When fed around the neck of the tack animal the bars would fit through holes in the yoke. Once fed through the oxbow pins would be put through the holes on the ends of the bars. The bowed pincers would wrap around the yokes bars and be held in place via the bowed shape. These particular oxbow pins have a mechanism that allows someone to remove the pin by pinching the end of the oxbow pin where the pincers and bar meet.
An oxbow pin with small circular pincers with a metal pin running through the center of the circle made by the bowed pincers. This metal pin extends past the circle made by the pincers. It was removed from the A. A. Hotchkiss & Sons excavation site in Sharon, CT. An excavation of this site was conducted in 1974 by Mark Cohn. Almost 74 other objects were uncovered at this site.
An animal yoke is placed over the shoulders or neck of a tack animal to allow people to attach rope or chains to the yoke in order pull a heavy load. The yoke is held in place by two bars looped around the neck of the tack animal. These bars would have a hole bored through the sides of the end of the bars. When fed around the neck of the tack animal the bars would fit through holes in the yoke. Once fed through the oxbow pins would be put through the holes on the ends of the bars. The bowed pincers would wrap around the yokes bars and be held in place via the bowed shape. These particular oxbow pins have a mechanism that allows someone to remove the pin by pinching the end of the oxbow pin where the pincers and bar meet.
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