The place where this was recovered from was orchards and vineyards until 1945 ish, it was cleared from scrub around 1920, but was bush until then.
Photographs of the area in the late 1800's have pretty much just got a pub in the middle of an intersecting roads that are still existing today, just not
wide dirt roads with scrub either side and horse rails to tie up to.
The first housing was not until 1950's when it was surveyed and broken up into average 1/4 acre blocks when they were first sold and built upon.
The person I wrote about in the OP of this item has recently sold his Great Grandfathers house site that he lived next to behind it.
It is a good 300 meters from this demolished 50's house and the only other tenant on the land lived in a shed (Sword owner) near the house,
apparently the Grandfather just let him reside there, the Sword was left to his Grandfather before the old fella died.
It was a German Officers Cavalry Sword, for field use, made by Wilkinson in England probably under contract supply to the German govt.
The clincher is that Kato has been pounding the dirt in several yards with the neighbours permission, her Grand Parents live in a house in the same street
on the same side 3 doors down from the leveled house, a north to south orientation on that side.
She has found projectiles and a coin with what looks to be a large caliber hole in it on her Grandfathers land.
All the houses but one in this row are still owned by the original purchasers, and they are all Italian immigrants after WW2.
So we have a good lineage of history and living knowledge still present.
The last owner never had horses or cubby house according to the son.
Kato's research discovered the "picnic" that was written up in the Adelaide News paper of the time.
It spoke grandly about a picnic of where the employer had invited staff,family and friends and paid for it all, a very good time was had and the article
was submitted by a staff member.
The businessman owner a Tailor (his name was Taylor from England) shop at the corner of Rundle and King William Street Adelaide, an expensive site even then in the 1850's.
I would suggest that he would have possibly catered to the Governor of the day, wealthy and political, police and gentry as this position is in easy reach of
the "HUB" of these people, a very short walk from Parliament, Banking, Governors House, Police Barracks etc.
It is the artifacts that are spread across the zone of 100m of 4 house blocks that pull it together for us, may be totally wrong, but it all dates in the same 10 yrs
and the projectile was from a Snyder .577 which was SA Police issue 1860-1866 smooth bore, fly button dating same period military or police contract,
coins, coin with what looks like a bullet hole large cal.
All this makes us think we may have a horse shoe that could have been on a childs pony at the picnic, maybe a wealthy family? or entertainment for the kids?.
I have sister that has horses and watched them being Shod, never seen a brass nail used, always steel and square, but doesnt mean I am right and brass was never commonly used.
The thought is also the cost, steel was cheap then and blacksmiths would use the cheapest malleable material, brass is brittle when bent and copper too soft.
That and Clydes Dale shoes we have found had steel nails too, that was also very local.
Even new shoe nails now are steel.
So there we have our best guess as to its origin, son of the owner of the block has no recollection of the item being brought there, and coins in the footpath date back to early 1900's
as well as Decimals.
Hopefully we are lucky.
