Are these bullets?

[Dudder33]

I believe the small one is a buck n ball, but I have no clue on the others. I'm also trying to figure out if the stirrup is civil war era and how old the lock may be.

 

[BosnMate]

Looks like the stirrup could be civil war era, but various styles of your stirrup has been/is used up until today, so unless you are finding date-able stuff with it, your guess is as good as the next persons. You also have a good guess going on the buck and ball. Are you hunting a area of known civil war activity? The flattened lead could also be fired buck and ball that his something hard, and the three could also be just plain old buck shot from a modern shotgun, from which a 12 gauge would fire 9 double ought buck shot. Does a flattened shot and the round one weigh about the same? The padlock might help you date the rest of the stuff, it's an old one, but I don't know anything about dating them.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

To figure out their likely time-period, it would help to know the state (and nearest town) where you found them.

By the way, buck-&-ball cartridges were made in .54, .58, and .69-caliber. Using the ruler in the photo for size estimation, none of the three balls in the photo look ike they were bigger than .50-inch in diameter before they were smashed. We need a precision weight measurement, in grains (not grams or ounces), for each of them, because knowing their very-precise weight can tell us the original diameter of a smashed lead ball.

 

[kuger]

Looks like a side saddle stirrup(which there was only one)

 

[Dudder33]

Thanks for the feedback. The 2 smashed pieces of lead are heavier and larger than the round one. I don't have a weight scale, but I will try to get one and weigh them. I shoot a lot of 00Buck and this one seems too big to be modern. What made me think civil war era was the oxidation of the lead. I found the bullets in a field in Vichy Missouri. The stirrup and lock I found halfway between Vichy MO and Rolla MO at an old cabin/store. The family who owned the cabin used it as a general store and sold supplies to both Confederates and Yankees during the civil war. I believe they also lived in the cabin. The land stayed in the family up until a few years ago and I believe that cabin was used up until the early to mid 1900's. The old wagon road that is now highway 63 was just a few hundred yards away from the cabin. Of course when the road was paved and turned into 63 highway it was moved a little, but still runs pretty close to where the wagon road was. I also dug up an old buggy spring there.