✅ SOLVED Colonial Site What In The Heck Is It?

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

All you guys and gals that hunt 1700's-1800's sites might have come across something like this . I have never quite seen another like it? It's somewhat small, heavy for its size, looks like a tiny gourd, and has a whole in the upper part as seen in pics. Buttons, coins, buckles, thimbles, etc are all great finds, but all these items are still in use and somewhat made in the same likeness as they were 250 years ago. It's the strange and unusual little finds at these sites that really get my curiosity up .

 

[DigIron2]

Its hard to guess from imagination,you are probably gonna need a picture and something to scale it with.

 

[FoundInNC]

Lead bullet button.

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Its hard to guess from imagination,you are probably gonna need a picture and something to scale it with.

DigIron2, I like your style. Yeah, sorry about that. Have been having trouble with uploading pics to website for the last 15 minutes . It appears that even after all the effort some of the pics are upside down. Oh well, it doesn't really impact the general idea for this item.

 

[SkaBa]

Fishing sinker weight.

 

[ARC]

Fishing sinker weight.

agreed

 

[Tedyoh]

Possibly a rifle sling swivel stud.

 

[BosnMate]

If brass, decorative round button, or perhaps a round bead, if lead, a fishing sinker.

 

[Broken knee]

Well to me it looks like a bell clapper? Something like this. HH
BK

 

[DigIron2]

Lead bullet button.

That's a good guess,but then the bottom kind of throws me off,When I first saw it I thought of a acorn. don't see much carving marks as far as I can tell from pictures ,it looks like it might be pewter, might be a real old sinker?

 

[DigIron2]

I think broken knee nailed it.

 

[ARC]

Well to me it looks like a bell clapper? Something like this. HH
BK

ok now I really agree

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Well to me it looks like a bell clapper? Something like this. HH
BK

Everyone, I attempted to check to see if it was lead and it is not soft like lead. So, although a great guess I don't feel it is a sinker. Broken knee, after realizing it is not lead and by the picture you posted I held it up to the screen and was very surprised how very similar your guess matched up .

 

[BosnMate]

Now that it's been pointed, a bell clapper makes more sense than anything else, because there were lots of small bells in use on teams of
horses and mules. They were called Hames Bells, and I'm sure people liked them, but I've often wondered what the horse or mule
thought about having those bells right in it's ears.

Hames bells.

Note the bells on this hitch. There is 10 animals, each with a set of bells. You have to look close to see them, but they are attached to the top of the collar.

 

[BosnMate]

I enlarged the picture. It's also interesting to note in the larger photo, the horses are in fact mules, and each team is a matched pair. Who ever the freighter was, he was
sure proud of his outfit. I'll bet those mules were well behaved also.

click on it to see the enlargement.

 

[CoilyGirl]

I found something almost exactly like that a few months ago but mine does not have a hole in it.Even The Cannonball guy was stumped by it when I showed it to him this weekend.Does yours look like it has an iron wire threaded through it? I will go "dig up" (har har) the thread so we can compare it. Mine looks like it was carved into an acorn shape but the lead does not have the patina of a CW era bullet.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Not to hijack but here is my oddity( one of many)

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/433023-carved-lead.html

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Not to hijack but here is my oddity( one of many)

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/433023-carved-lead.html

I don't mind that you hitched a ride on my thread . I don't feel like you hijacked it, you just jumped on as a passenger. The acorn shape very much resembles the confederate bullet sometimes carved into an acorn, however if the top could have had a loop in it before I would think it too could be a bell clapper

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Not to hijack but here is my oddity( one of many)

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/433023-carved-lead.html

This is just a general idea of various shapes of these that could possibly be like yours

 

[CoilyGirl]

Life's a Garden I think we have a BINGO!