Botched fishing weight?

[gary s fl]

Made of lead. Weight 54 grams. Most of the cavity is about the size as the larger opening. Avg diameter 15/16".

 

[MObushwhacker]

These are called leaveitlay (leave-it-lay) when hunting with your dectecter and you fine one. thats what you do (leave it lay!)

 

[La Beep]

Fishing net weight

 

[Deftone]

These are called leaveitlay (leave-it-lay) when hunting with your dectecter and you fine one. thats what you do (leave it lay!)

Dont quit yer day job.

 

[gary s fl]

La Beep, at first I agreed with your ID but after thinking it over a bit, I'm not so sure because of the small dia. of the small hole. Also, it weighs almost 2 oz and it seems that the rope needed to support a lot of these weights would have to be at least 1/4" or 3/8" unless a small twine was used to attach the weight to the main perimeter rope and I doubt it would be made that way because a smaller twine would wear through quickly if it was dragged on the bottom. Then on the other hand you may be right and I'm full of beans.

 

[La Beep]

They used the same string the net was made out of, as far a dragging, it was placed between to objects and not moved around alot.
I have found lot of net weights and never seen one with two different size holes, so it may not be a net weight. But still my bet it is.

 

[vayank54]

Over the years I have found 2 lead balls that had holes in them like that. Both had wood in the holes and both were dug in civil war camps. I have no idea what they were used for though.

 

[gtfd47]

These are called leaveitlay (leave-it-lay) when hunting with your dectecter and you fine one. thats what you do (leave it lay!) ..

I disagree...I am confident it is spanish, for I have dug many...It is a peeso-chit.

 

[aquachigger]

Could be a loom weight. Do a GIS and there are plenty examples of them there. They are common finds on very old sites in England.

 

[Rusted Nail]

These are called leaveitlay (leave-it-lay) when hunting with your dectecter and you fine one. thats what you do (leave it lay!)

LOL , I'm just done cleaning off my keyboard and monitor after choking up what I was swallowing while reading you're most educated guess .

 

[gary s fl]

Yeah....I got a chuckle from that, but I busted my gut with gtfd47's Spanish ID

 

[Lucas]

It's a beatup fishing weight. I can't find a good pic of one, but I have seen the mold. A scissors mold that has a cone shape pin that forms the hole. It is cone shaped so you can open the mold back up!