Certainly Smellymarkfive - This was recovered from a Britishicon army dump site. I have been digging this site, (with landowners permission of course), for more than 5 years and one of these first appeared a couple of years ago. Since then I have had lots more, most beyond saving, but a few are 'intact'. They always come from within the dump layer containing recognisable WW2 relics so it will be from WW2 or earlier. The dump is full of weapon and tripod parts from numerous weapons used by the British, (LE, Sten, Bren, Vickers, Browning M1917, Boys.....), along with armourer tools as well.

So, this could be part of any of these items but is certainly military in origin. Every single item found in this dump is just that, so we know it isn't just some random crap. Along with the number of these recovered, it is obvious it has something to do with a weapon, but what......is the question!

The relic itself is roughly four inches long by 2 inches wide so seems far too big to fit inside a rifle, but could feasibly be from within a larger calibre weapon or MG.

I thought for a short while it maybe a gauge square, but I don't know enough about armourers tools to try and track it down.

More pictures below. Markings read .......

6163511B
C.F.S. Co.
LH


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