✅ SOLVED Carved Stone Bullet? Native American thingymabob?

[Cycluran]

I found this on the side of an eroded ridge, at the site of a lesser known CW battle. It's smooth, carved stone and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Not far from that spot I have found both war relics and arrow/spear heads. The top and base are flattened and the base is not as perfect a circle as the top. The hole in the bottom is perfect and extends half-way up. I've tried to make it whistle by blowing across the top, but it won't. If I had to put it to use....it would make a fine little grip on the crank of a fishing reel.

 

[surf]

Hello Cyluran,

Welcome to the wide world of TNet. You've come bearing mysterious objects. Cool ones. I like that.

You might post this one down in North American Indian Artifacts. Lots of expertise & sharp eyes amongst the regulars.

I do not think it is a miniature mano from the Princess Hiawatha Miniature Long House collection.

 

[Cycluran]

Hmmmmmm... Agreed. However comma...It just happens to match closely in size and shape to the Enfield rounds I pulled nearby. Did anyone ever make a stone bullet?

 

[TNGUNS]

Nope. Not to my knowledge anyway. Would certainly lead to the end of a rifle barrel in a hurry. The projectile in rifles is softer than the barrel or uses a sabot that is. Lead also is easily deformed allowing the rifling to engrave on most civil war era rifles which provides the spin necessary to stabilize a conical bullet. Stone wouldn't work. The early smooth bores fired a round projectile as a rule. Note the object is not round enough for a gas seal and the hole in the middle would also defeat the concept of using expanding gas to propel the projectile. To much gas would pass thru instead of pushing it. Almost anything stuffed over a standard charge of powder would exit with force, or blow up the firearm but a rock would be about the least effective or practical thing that you could find. Believe it or not wooden bullets have actually been used as they allow the gas to seal but lack the density for any down range effectiveness.

 

[arrowhead82]

I'm thinking maybe a native american stone bead like this one except different stone http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Amazing-Pre-Columbian-Roya-SODALITE-Stone-Beads-Necklace-Long-tube-/00/s/MTE3N1gxNjAw/$(KGrHqZ,!lwE8FcrzlqJBPPHP9oMN!~~60_35.JPG or like this one: http://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/images/Trempealeau/NBeadsw.jpg

 

[Petrie502]

It's a Native American stone bead or fishing weight possible some sort of net weight

 

[kuger]

It's a Native American stone bead or fishing weight possible some sort of net weight

.......really?Please explain how it might function...

 

[Cycluran]

You know, I agree. I believe this is an unfinished bead. If you notice, there's just a hint of a tiny hole on the solid end. I think it was unfinished and the hole was meant to cut all the way through. I'm calling this solved.