plumb weight
I did find it in a civil war area. My dad had found a union button about fifteen feet down the fence a month or two ago prior to this dig. I thought maybe game piece. It would be cool if it was to the top of a flag. What u mean by plum wait. Like how much it weighs?
I did find it in a civil war area. What u mean by plum wait. Like how much it weighs?
I would say it looks like a carved game piece. Did you find it in a Civil War area?
True but I've never seen a lead plumb bob weight unless they fashioned it out of a bullet out of necessity. Plumb bobs were made of steel so they would not be deformed and hang true. It also doesn't appear to have had a loop of some sort on the bottom to tie a string at the center of gravity.engineers use plumb bobs --plumb weights to see if a some thing their building is straight up and down---at a 90 degree angle to the earth (they are hung on a string thus the groove on it) --- similar to the way they use a bubble level to see if some thing is left to right "level" -- engineering troops during the civil war were often in the camps .