Great day out Today - Need help w/ ID

[Thigh66]

Hey there all -

Hit a private school that has been around since the 1920's here in New England.

- 1945 Wash Qtr
- 1964 Rosie
- Musket Ball? Grapeshot? *Need help ID'ing*
- A nameplate of a "Steve Madden" - I am going to research, and hopefully return it to him!
- Wheaties, and Clad

Any thoughts on the Musketball/Grapeshot?? Obviously there is lots of history here in New England... And I hope that I got a good historic find!

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thigh66

 

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[Old Dude]

Hard to say, but that almost looks like steel. If it is, probably a large bearing maybe.
Very nice silvers!

 

[Thigh66]

Thanks Old Due.. Def not steel... Has the White patina - def lead

 

[Old Dude]

Great! That is a huge one then. Grapeshot? I have never seen one personally...only smaller ones. That is a super find then! Is that spot near the water? Would this have been fired from a ship?

 

[Thigh66]

Thx! No, not near the water.. but on a hillside near where the British were known to have passed through on the way to famous skirmishes... Saw on some sites that the Brown Bess fired .71 Cal?? Could it be?

 

[2moshers]

The Brown Bess was .75 caliber but fired a .71 caliber musket ball (about .69 inches). I found this one earlier in the week in a local farm field. Both the British and the Colonist used the Brown Bess during the Revolutionary War. Yours looks a little bit larger.

 

[Thigh66]

Thx Moshers... thinking grapeshot...

 

[2moshers]

Nice find!

 

[cjon455]

man that's a big ole chunk of lead, super cool whatever it is!

imagine the damage that would inflict?