Tin can or fruit jar lid ?

[deenodean]

I found this zinc lid on top of a rock pile I was digging yesterday. It measures 2 3/4 " across , it has no threads, only a ring indicating it would snap over a metal can or jar! No embossing. It is showing it's 100 + year age.
Any thoughts if it is for a known jar or is the mate a metal can?
Thanks in advance.

[attachment=image(MH).jpg]
[attachment=image(AQ).jpg]
[attachment=image.jpg]

 

[cowseatmaize]

Lid like on a shoe polish or any number of other products is my guess.

 

[CanadianBottles]

I'm almost positive that it's a small tin of some sort. The bottom half of one, that is. The lid would have been a thinner piece similar to that. I've never dug a rock pile before although I see them quite often. Do the ones worth digging usually have pieces visible? The rock walls (if you can call them that - they're basically just rocks piled in rows) around here sometimes have pieces of glass here and there but never concentrated in one place.

 

[hemihampton]

I've seen & dug a few like this. I'm pretty sure it contained womans make up. LEON.

 

[deenodean]

Thanks guys,
I accept it is a cover for a metal can..
Canadian Bottles.. Most dumps here are rock piles filled with broken glass, the only thing, if anything , that survives are small bottles, like meds or inks.. I generally don't sift thru them because they are LACED with CRIERS !! The only thing I have ever found whole is an olive / Amber cone ink , my favourite find, it was thrown but managed miraculously to survive !!!
HEMI-- thanks for the info. Your info adds to my suspicions !!

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yeah dumps around here are similar. They aren't usually rock piles per se, but they are a bunch of shards scattered on the surface and then once you start digging you hit a rock every couple inches, and again everything's smashed. Farm dumps that is; industrial-scale dumps are of course the same as anywhere else.

 

[andy volkerts]

Also could have been a cap for a cardboard style baking powder container kinda like the old oatmeal cardboard containers were closed with.