A flat, brass key-like object pierced at one end (length 1.4 in.) may prove to be an identification tag for a surveying chain. Surveying chains typically consisted of steel links 1ft. in length. Each fifth, sixty, or tenth link was marked with a pin or tag held in place by a small steel link.

 

 

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