Great day out Today - Need help w/ ID

Thigh66 · Apr 18, 2015

Hey there all -

Hit a private school that has been around since the 1920's here in New England.

- 1945 Wash Qtr
- 1964 Rosie
- Musket Ball? Grapeshot? *Need help ID'ing*
- A nameplate of a "Steve Madden" - I am going to research, and hopefully return it to him!
- Wheaties, and Clad

Any thoughts on the Musketball/Grapeshot?? Obviously there is lots of history here in New England... And I hope that I got a good historic find!

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thigh66

Old Dude · Apr 18, 2015

Hard to say, but that almost looks like steel. If it is, probably a large bearing maybe.
Very nice silvers!

Thigh66 · Apr 18, 2015

Thanks Old Due.. Def not steel... Has the White patina - def lead

Old Dude · Apr 18, 2015

Great! That is a huge one then. Grapeshot? I have never seen one personally...only smaller ones. That is a super find then! Is that spot near the water? Would this have been fired from a ship?

Thigh66 · Apr 18, 2015

Thx! No, not near the water.. but on a hillside near where the British were known to have passed through on the way to famous skirmishes... Saw on some sites that the Brown Bess fired .71 Cal?? Could it be?

2moshers · Apr 18, 2015

The Brown Bess was .75 caliber but fired a .71 caliber musket ball (about .69 inches). I found this one earlier in the week in a local farm field. Both the British and the Colonist used the Brown Bess during the Revolutionary War. Yours looks a little bit larger.