Possibly part of a back/culet mid 16th c.
Possibly one end of a waist lame from a backplate with a broken culet section. Extensively damaged. For scale, I can place it on the back of my waist, and it does curl around appropriately. So it could work. If the guess is right, then there is a small piece of the corner of the backplate on a rivet at the top, the waist line is cracked and the culet lame also cracked in half and mising a section. The bottom of the culet lame with inward turned roped border and a tapering recess.
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