Civil War Relics

[Okie-Colin]

I have been hunting a civil war battle site on private property in Arkansas. On Tuesday, October 11th I found two lead musket balls buried about five inches deep on a ridge, Further away from this site my Fisher overloaded and on a whim I dug and recovered an iron ball at around four inches deep. It is iron, diameter of 1 - 5/8 's inches and weighs one pound. THe account of this battle lists the Confederates having two "2 inch Arkansas Rifles". None of the other artillery listed shows anything with a similiar bore. Any ideas, is this a civil war relic? If not, than what else could it be? There is a ball with the exact same dimensions listed on Ebay as a civil war relic.

 

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[trk5capt]

Most likely pre. CW Bow cannon ball have found same here in Charleston S.C. trk5capt...

 

[lonewolfe]

Cool stuff!

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[chesterseeker]

Would you like to sell it.

 

[Lcplthogersen]

My father has a bunch of musket balls but does not know what the larger size one could be

 

[chesterseeker]

i know what they are US issue door stopers

 

[chesterseeker]

Grapshot

 

[hasbeen]

I'm a bit confused about the measurements listed. I measured the iron ball at 2.20"x2.270" and the lead balls at approximately .775"(10 gauge).The pictures of the balls were measured with a caliper and compared with the picture of the ruler.

hasbeen