STRANGE C/W LEAD AND SOME SILVER

materdigger1 · Feb 19, 2013

Got some stuff for my treasurenet friends to look at - the first pics are of a sweet 1900 barber quarter - (sorry for the blurry pics) - found bout 6 inches down on my lunch break the other day. Then an axe head and a harness ring I found and cleaned up - Then found some lead pieces I hope my treasurenet buddies can help me with idenity. The first one is about 1-7/8" long with a mushroom shaped round head - It is 9/16" od and is slightly bent (I nailed it with my shovel and sliced it but it was already bent. It has 5 distinct holes just under the mushroom head and it appears that some sort of steel spokes of some kind where there - one hole still has a little piece of steel in it - it is also hollow all the way up to the mushroom shaped head - I don't have a clue - hope you can help - Then the next piece is an odd thing - it has a round head that shows definite signs of being hand whitled with a knife - then is is square or retangular shaped the rest of the length - Total length is 5" - the round whitled head is 1/2" long and is 7/16 dia. - the top of the rounded head has an indention kind of like a bullet - the shaft area starts out at 1/2" x 1/2" and slopes down to 3/8" wide by 5/32" - I don't have a clue so any help from my treasure net friends is greatly appreciated. Both of these items where found in same area with some civil war bullets and other civil war relics.