I need serious help (on CW period bullet)

[smokeythecat]

And you thought it was just me that needed the help. Anyway, was out playing in the wind today. Was in a site occupied from about 1670 to the present. Got some fun stuff and this bullet. It is made of lead, it is HEXAGONAL. It is .45 caliber. The base is flat. No cone or concave base present. Length is about .73 inches and the nose is blunt. Site saw some Civil War activity and we have pulled eagle buttons and eagle I buttons from the site. It is definitely hexagonal and does not look carved.

 

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[Just_curious]

Could be for a Whitworth rifle used by confederates. It was manufactured in 1857 and weighed about 9 pounds and known for its long accuracy...kinda like a civil war era sniper rifle. It was a muzzle loader and used rifling within the barren. Percussion lock type with a 1/20 twist rate in comparison to the 1/70 Or so Enfield twist rate.

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[CRUSADER]

Looks more like a handmade lead gaming counter or weight to me.

 

[smokeythecat]

Game piece is possible. Definitely not a Whitworth, but that's what I first thought it was.

 

[Just_curious]

I'd still say a Whitworth... you can see how the lines spiral up and down the bullet. Also, similar to today, people hand casted their projectiles. It also matches the Whitworth's .451 caliber

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[Tpmetal]

not Whitworth, unless it poorly cast at home from an unknown or homemade mould. They were much longer. I'm going along the lines of a carved bullet with a poorly cast whitworth being second place.

 

[smokeythecat]

I don't think I'll ever find out, BUT the Confederate CAVALRY was less than 5 miles away during the Gettysburg campaign, and one Union army officer left his coat a few hundred feet away from where this was found, also got one of 1851 rubber buttons nearby (my partner got it) and some Henry cartridges.