Need help in identifying misc lead items

[zbrown210]

I need help in identifying these items. They each appear to be lead and i found each of the items at known civil war sites.

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[can]

the lead sitting over below 5 looks like a chewed roundball and maybe over 4 1/2. 6 looks like a rivet. and the smeared lead looks like a melted miniball

 

[MarkDz]

I agree with Can here. Melted and/or chewed (often by animals) bullets are common at military sites, along with leftover scrap lead.

 

[Mike in cranberry]

Could the item at 6 inches be a cleaner base?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Yes, the item at 6 on the ruler is the "thumbtack" base of a civil war US .58-caliber Williams "bore-cleaner" bullet. The other items are:
an animal-chewed .31 Colt pistol-ball or buckshot ball,
a "campfire-melted" Case-Shot ball from an exploded artillery shell, and
a "campfire-melted" bullet, probably a .54 Minie-bullet.

Regarding the ID of the Case-Shot ball... it is too big to be a .44 revolver ball and too small to be a .69 musketball, so it has to be a Case-Shot ball.

Regarding the Williams base... being dug in an Atlanta Campaign (1864) site, it can only be from a Williams Type 3 bullet.

 

[zbrown210]

Thanks thecannonballguy

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