Heres the next guy to ask if he has a CW bullet

callmez

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Here's the next guy to ask if he has a CW bullet

I dug this on a farm in East Tennessee, less than 2 miles from the site of the Battle of Campbell's Station and roughly 1/2 mile from the road that troops of both sides took to get there. Have never found a CW relic before and am hoping this is the first so I can cross it off my bucket list.

It's pretty deformed... the diameter ranges from about 0.30 - 0.35 and it's about 9/16" in length in its present form. Two visible rings and a concave base.

Have yet to dig anything particularly old on the property but I can trace its ownership back into the 1820s and maybe further.

Any help would be appreciated!

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goldnrelics

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I say modern, my vote is in. Thanks for sharing

oh and modern by not civil war.
 

fyrffytr1

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I believe it dates no earlier than the 1870s. In the last picture you can see tiny lines in the groove. They are called canelures and first showed up in the 1870s.
 

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callmez

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Thanks to both of you -- I can see the cannelures in the bottom groove (better than the picture shows) and did a little more reading about them online. Guess I'm still looking for my first CW relic... they're around here!
 

Davers

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Yeah I'd say it's a Early Cast Pistol bullet .
but
Don,t Give up They are out there. Just getting harder to find These Days.

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