226 year old bullets

[RKinOI]

I researched the battle of Ramseurs mill in Lincolnton N.C. Went out there and there was a nice little road right around to the old mill site. No no tresspassing signs or anything like that and there were no one out there so I got the detector and took a 10 min. walk through the woods. Started getting hits right off , the first two hits were the small ones and I thought they could be old buckshot but I dont think so. Then I got the two bigger ones and some old pig iron. Hopefully there fron that battle. Any opinions??

 

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[Digginman]

Musketballs and a Merc!!!!!

You had a great day. My kind of finds.

Congrats.

DM

 

[hasbeen]

Most dimes will measure about .703",scaling against the dime,the ball on the left is about .75 caliber,ball on the right is a bit smaller .It is probably a .69-.72 caliber,the small ones are around .45 caliber.If the weight in grains was available a more sure ID could be made.All of the sizes could have come from that time period.

It is hard to asign a date to a round lead ball without other artifacts to confirm the time period.

hasbeen