Musket bullet?

[Garabaldi]

You think this was musket bullet?

 

[CRUSADER]

No but its a lead bullet

 

[Garabaldi]

How old do you think it is?

 

[CRUSADER]

How old do you think it is?

It looks like a possible Lee Enfield type of the 1860s-ish (hard to tell real Cal.)

 

[Sofaman36]

Definitely an enfield. Where did you find this bullet? What other things were in the same area as it?

 

[RiverRat3]

Look at the hollow end of the bullet. If its an Enfield bullet you may see some markings like "L1 or L2" There are a few other markings that the Enfield mold has.

 

[vayank54]

Look at the hollow end of the bullet. If its an Enfield bullet you may see some markings like "L1 or L2" There are a few other markings that the Enfield mold has.

There might also be a number 57 or 55 or a flower or spokes of a wheel or maybe just a dot or nothing at all. Those Enfields had all kind of stuff in the bases. I love finding them

 

[RiverRat3]

Look at the hollow end of the bullet. If its an Enfield bullet you may see some markings like "L1 or L2" There are a few other markings that the Enfield mold has.

There might also be a number 57 or 55 or a flower or spokes of a wheel or maybe just a dot or nothing at all. Those Enfields had all kind of stuff in the bases. I love finding them

I found my first Enfield about a month ago but did not know what it was until a week ago when I posted it on this forum. I thought it was a smothed three ringer.

 

[Garabaldi]

There are no visible numbers or marking on the inside of the bullet. The inside is in the shape of a sphire, but not sure if this happened on impact. If you look closely at the images (last image for ex.) you can see part of a ring. I was leaning toward a musket bullet. The place in Mass where I found this bullet has artifacts dating back to mid 1600's. Lots of the items I found were made in England. The 1737 Spanish Pisterean on the banner was found at the same place. Member of my club last meeting said he saw a ring and said musket bullet. Anyone agree?

 

[vayank54]

There are no visible numbers or marking on the inside of the bullet. The inside is in the shape of a sphire, but not sure if this happened on impact. If you look closely at the images (last image for ex.) you can see part of a ring. I was leaning toward a musket bullet. The place in Mass where I found this bullet has artifacts dating back to mid 1600's. Lots of the items I found were made in England. The 1737 Spanish Pisterean on the banner was found at the same place. Member of my club last meeting said he saw a ring and said musket bullet. Anyone agree?

You might be right looking really close at the 2nd pic it looks like there might be 3 rings. Might just be a fired 3 ringer. I was going to mention though some of the Mass units in the civil war carried Enfields and also used the British snake buckles that were captured on a ship taking stuff to the south. I think the 11th Mass was one but can't remember for sure.

 

[CRUSADER]

There are no visible numbers or marking on the inside of the bullet. The inside is in the shape of a sphire, but not sure if this happened on impact. If you look closely at the images (last image for ex.) you can see part of a ring. I was leaning toward a musket bullet. The place in Mass where I found this bullet has artifacts dating back to mid 1600's. Lots of the items I found were made in England. The 1737 Spanish Pisterean on the banner was found at the same place. Member of my club last meeting said he saw a ring and said musket bullet. Anyone agree?

You might be right looking really close at the 2nd pic it looks like there might be 3 rings. Might just be a fired 3 ringer. I was going to mention though some of the Mass units in the civil war carried Enfields and also used the British snake buckles that were captured on a ship taking stuff to the south. I think the 11th Mass was one but can't remember for sure.

Might be fired 3 ringer (I can just see some marks). But as you point out, many in fact more Enfields are blank inside than have no.s & letters (in my collection of 200+ anyway)

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

You may already know about this link, and/or others like it. But if not, perhaps it will be of some help. There are a couple of pictures on it (Bullets Section) that look similar to your's. Especially the smaller one's with the triangle shaped base hole.

http://www.bullrunrelics.com/default.htm

Good Luck ...

SODABOB

 

[vayank54]

Crusader's right about the markings in the base. You will find many many more plain ones than marked ones. But still check them all.

 

[Garabaldi]

You may already know about this link, and/or others like it. But if not, perhaps it will be of some help. There are a couple of pictures on it (Bullets Section) that look similar to your's. Especially the smaller one's with the triangle shaped base hole.
http://www.bullrunrelics.com/default.htm
Good Luck ...
SODABOB

Great site thank you.