piece of tank?

[Zeller]

This morning I found this thing in the wood, not far from where last year I found a sherman periscope. The area is near a road, so it could be a relic from battlefield as well as a modern garbage.
It looks nicely corroded though.
Any idea what is it? It's 22 cm tall

[Mat Holloway]

Looks like a brake disc? Four stud holes and 2 little holes for the grub screws, what its from i dont know?

[Justin P]

Looks like a brake disc? Four stud holes and 2 little holes for the grub screws, what its from i dont know?

Def Disc brake,I would be guessing these were not in use untill 1940-50 Maybe latter

[Zeller]

Cheers Guys,
the area where I found it was military since the early 1900 and in more recent times, germans, italians, americans and also Commonwealth armies passed there. Being the location near a main road, it is also infested by garbage.
You could still have some lucky finds though. This thing was pretty deep in the woods ... could it be from a US truck from the late 40's ? (Allies stayed here till 1954)

[jtrowbridge5]

Disc brakes on commercial vehicles is a modern fitting poss: last 25years, they also had at least 6 stud holes
dennis

[jiipee76]

Looks very much like Opel front disc.Definetly not wartime.Actually disc brakes to normal cars started to appear in 1970´s.Only car i know and have seen which had discbrakes in 1960´s was Chevrolet Corvette(i know there were others too).

[Tim G]

Re disc,

This morning I found this thing in the wood, not far from where last year I found a sherman periscope. The area is near a road, so it could be a relic from battlefield as well as a modern garbage.
It looks nicely corroded though.
Any idea what is it? It's 22 cm tall

Can you give a pic of the disc side on ?? Looks well thin, looks to be lacking certain features for a worn out disc as well.
Cheers,
tim

[Zeller]

Hi Tim,

many people here and on another forum told me it was a disc, so I threw it to garbage already...