I was thinking old because I found a pair of round balls .52 and .55 and a double sided awl in the same general area yesterday and I found a trade metal point in the same spot a few weeks back.
I’ve found pre civil war artifacts then there’s a gap until about 1880, I was hoping I’d finally found something from that missing time frame
But I was hoping someone could tell me the age
After a search of TreasureNet CannonBallGuy says it best here in a post back in Feburary 2018.
Just trying to be helpful here. No offense intended, but... in regard to a bullet, the word cannelure simply means groove. Various pre-civil-war bullets had body grooves. The first bullets whose body groove was "reeded" (also called "knurled") appeared in 1877.
So your bullet "could" be from the 1880's or so forward.
If you’re worried about me I’m not offended at all That’s the info I was looking for. I’ve learned a lot from this site and it’s a great resource. looks like for now I’m still missing items from that 1850-1870 range.
The "just trying to be helpfulhere. no offense intended... " is all part of CBG's post. I just used copy and paste.
I know what you mean about missing parts of history of sites.
In my town we can find dumps from 1850's and then 1880's on... no 60's or 70's....
What did they do with their trash
Ah I missed that, I don’t know about your towns history but that period in my area was when Indians were transitioning out and whites were moving in I wonder if it has something to do with that... you would still think there were people making trash and hunting and dropping things