Confederate Musket Dug! Also NC State Seal Button, Cannonball, and Minie Ball!!!!!

[FoundInNC]

Hey folks! Big day for me today, I did some Gis searching and got permission on a site that I have been wanting to hunt for a while now. I only hunted for an hour and this is what I came up with! My first good signal was a minie ball in an oyster shell. I had to take a picture of that because I thought the oyster shell was making my detector go off until I saw the bullet in the void. My second signal was iron, and because I am digging anything better than a 30vdi on my AT Pro, I was able to locate my FIRST CANNONBALL! I am not sure which bore it fits, but the Confederates had some oddball calibers of cannons. My next decent signal was a high tone, and turned out to be the most beautiful North Carolina State Seal button that I have ever seen, dug or not! It has the Myers Richmond backmark. The last signal I dug was quite substantial. It sounded huge, and turns out it was. I thought it was a pipe as I was pulling it out of the ground, and it wasn't until I had it in my hand that I realized that I had actually unearthed a REAL CONFEDERATE MUSKET! It is very rusty, but definitely a musket! I can't wait to go back to this site. Thanks for reading my post!

FoundinNC

 

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[park pirate]

Awesome..

 

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[Zodiacdiverdave]

Fantastic finds, it's a very smart thing to do diggng those iron hits when you are in a old battle site. A safe and easy way to clean that musket barrel, is to get a plastic tub that it will fit into and a few gallons of apple cider vinigar and soke it for a few weeks. Check on it from time to time and knock off any loose crumbs untill you have a clean barrel. Works great and won't harm your artifact.
Congrats on some awesome finds.
ZDD

 

[parsonwalker]

Man, that hunt right there would make my YEAR!

JUST the button!

OR the barrel!!!!!

Well done on a killer two-fer.

 

[diggervet]

fantastic bunch of finds! why aren't you out there pounding that site??

 

[beez0404]

Just awesome finds! Congratulations.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

FoundInNC, based on comparing your iron ball's size with the NC State Seal button, the ball appears to be in the correct size-range for a civil war artillery Canister-ammo ball. To learn with certainty whether or not it is a Canister ball, find (or make) a couple of clean spots on opposite sides of the ball, and use a caliper to measure the ball's diameter in hundredths-of-an-inch. Then go to the following webpage and see if there is a match-up for your iron ball's exact diameter in the chart showing the various sizes of civil war artillery Canister-ammo balls. (Your iron ball is too small to be a cannonball or a Grapeshot ball, so skip those charts.)
www.civilwarartillery.com/shottables.htm

 

[CoilyGirl]

Awesome finds,your button is beautiful!

 

[Davers]

Congratz on a great bunch of relics .

The NC Button is in almost perfect [ dug] condition IMO.

DAVERS

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Great finds! Now go get some more stuff to show us! looks like you are in a good spot to be searching.

L.C.

 

[Fullstock]

Did you find the rest of the musket? The trigger guard and butt plate should be some where close by. It looks like you've found a great spot!

 

[FoundInNC]

Hey folks, I returned to the site today and picked up another "cannonball"(canister shot?), a minie ball, a dated 1859 toe protector, a big brass key and a coin silver salt shaker top! I love finding old silver! Notice the imperfect casting of the small iron projectile.....

I will definitely be returning to this site in the fall. For now, it's back to the hometown!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Congrats not only on some incredible finds but also on getting into a super spot!