Get them while I can

[stillrollin300]

I went out today and picked up a NC sunburst. I decided to show a few more pictures of stuff I've found at this site. So far it's two confederate buttons (sunburst and state seal) roughly 20 bullets (only shown are drops) a few flat buttons some Indian heads, shield nickel, what I think is a sabot (if I'm mistaken please correct me), and some other odds and ins. I share because over the next 12 months this site will be completely developed. I will look as long as I can while the clear it out. Just another place of history being taken over.

 

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[Joe hunter]

I went out today and picked up a NC sunburst. I decided to show a few more pictures of stuff I've found at this site. So far it's two confederate buttons (sunburst and state seal) roughly 20 bullets (only shown are drops) a few flat buttons some Indian heads, shield nickel, what I think is a sabot (if I'm mistaken please correct me), and some other odds and ins. I share because over the next 12 months this site will be completely developed. I will look as long as I can while the clear it out. Just another place of history being taken over.

Sad it's going but very nice finds maybe you can enlist help and get as much out as possible

 

[wvwildman]

nice finds congrats HH

 

[stillrollin300]

What I believe to be a sabot.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

My main hangout at TreasureNet is the What-Is-It forum. I rarely look at the Today's Finds category. Stillrollin300 asked me to take a look at what he thought is a civil war artillery projectile's sabot. He is correct. It is approximately 1/2 of the copper band-sabot from a Confederate shell, specifically a 3"-caliber Broun shell. That type of shell first appeared in Summer 1864, so it helps for time-dating the battlesite it was found at.

The Broun sabot gripped the shell's base with three long narrow "tabs" spaced equidistantly around the sabot's inner side. (See photo below.) The tabs fit into corresponding slots in the shell's base. On Stillrollin300's sabot, the tabs are almost entirely ripped off.

Close examination of the "outer" side of your Confederate sabot shows several of the 7-groove rifling marks made by a yankee 3"-caliber Ordnance Rifle cannon which fired the shell. (I figured you'd want to know that your Confederate sabot was fired out of a captured yankee cannon.) We can be sure that's what happened, because the yankee Ordnance Department viewed Confederate-manufactured ammunition as being dangerously inferior quality, and therefore had issued strict orders forbidding yankee artillerymen from using captured Confederate ammo.

By the way, just in case you don't already know... at the bottom of your first photo, the large semi-square object with a number 6 on it is a cow-tag. Unfortunately, cow-tags are difficult to time-date with certainty. But because the number 6 on yours is a "font" style used mainly in the 20th-Century, the odds favor your tag being a postwar one.

 

[mangum]

Awesome button! I recently found one as well. I've also found a state seal button, 2 of my favorite finds. Are you in NC?

 

[stillrollin300]

Yea I'm in NC, I wish the state seals came out of the ground looking better but I'll dig em all day no matter what shape.

 

[mangum]

Yea I'm in NC, I wish the state seals came out of the ground looking better but I'll dig em all day no matter what shape.

The one I found was missing the back but I was still really excited to find it. The starburst button looks to be in great shape.

 

[stillrollin300]

My state seal is all there just bent over shank. The sunburst has no shank. I'm just ready for winter so the hunting gets easier. It's just to hot to detect for any period of time.

 

[mangum]

My state seal is all there just bent over shank. The sunburst has no shank. I'm just ready for winter so the hunting gets easier. It's just to hot to detect for any period of time.

I hear that, I still get out but not for long... If I do I feel like I got ran over by a train!

 

[Evolution]

Great finds. I love that NC button with the sunburst pattern. Sweet!

 

[TimberCrack]

Cannonball guy...that was really interesting info on the sabot...thanks for posting..by the way being a old gunner'smate myself, how far would that 3 inch gun throw a projectile back in those days

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

At maximum elevation, the Model-1960 US 3" Ordnance Rifle's max range was approximately 2.5 miles. But the Army gunners almost never went for maximum range in the 1860s, due to hilly and/or forested terrain putting limits on how far you could see, and almost always the lack of "remote spotters" to guide your shelling of unseen targets. Confederate Seacoast-Defense gunners would sometimes shoot at yankee blockade ships 2 and 3 miles offshore, due to having unobstructed long-range visibility of the target.