Carved Musket

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I found this little lead ball at a 16-1700s french fort site in michigan. I think it is a musket ball that was carved into some kind of game piece, but I can't find anything similar on google. The site is also half burried under a landfill from the 70s, so it could be modern junk. What say you all?

 

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[villagenut]

Looks like a fired roundball to me

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

Looks like a fired roundball to me

I think it could have been fired, but there is definitely a V shaped cut on the bottom, and the rest of the ball has very erratic marking, it looks like it was marked with a knife movinv in a bunch of different directions.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I see what you're talking about, but it may just appear that someone carved a 'V' in this round ball.
It's more likely to be what remains of the sprue after the ball impacted a hard surface.

Here are some examples of early musket balls with their sprues still attached.
Dave

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I see what you're talking about, but it may just appear that someone carved a 'V' in this round ball.
It's more likely to be what remains of the sprue after the ball impacted a hard surface.

Here are some examples of early musket balls with their sprues still attached.
Dave

That could be it. Maybe if it had the sprue attached and was in a fire or something. I just noticed that the pictures aren't great, I might reshoot them tonight when I have access to wifi.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

That could be it. Maybe if it had the sprue attached and was in a fire or something. I just noticed that the pictures aren't great, I might reshoot them tonight when I have access to wifi.

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