Bullet - help with age?

[laralucine]

Thanks in advance - found this on Saturday, in area that has been used for hundreds of years, through the present (saw several pheasant-hunting parties while we were there). Found lots of spent shotgun shells and small bullet casings, just put this in my pouch with the rest. Thought it might be a live round, but when cleaned it, realized it looked like one piece and like it had been fired. Obviously, I know nothing about this stuff, please help with approx age?
Thanks!
Lara

 

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[buscadero]

Lara, I looked thru all my reference books, & couldn't find that Bullet! I'll keep looking! Sorry! Where's PBK?

Joe

 

[stefen]

As a suggestion, it may help to indicate a scale relationship to zero in on the caliber.

This can be anywhere from a rifle bullet to a shotgun slug.

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Sorry Lara did'nt see this until today I will ask the guys if they know. Nice job!

 

[laralucine]

hi Kim, thanks guys, should have pulled this post, my dad came to visit and looked at the bullet, evidently to him 100 years old or so is "not that old" but I did find one a couple weeks after this one in my own front yard that looks like the ones people post here
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,54410.msg382713.html#msg382713
Lara

 

[Grimnar]

Hi,
Looks to me to be a Martini-Henry bullet roughly circa 1880-1910. Specs: .450”soft lead bullet (12 parts lead 1 part tin) weighing 480 grains.

Really nice relic...

Cheers Grim

 

[laralucine]

thanks!