Not sure about these.....junk or not?

[cadman68]

The little lead ball has nice patina thought it was a fishing sinker at first but after cleaning it up some im sure its not....any ideas?



Iron hook of some sort, possibly just farmers junk but i thought id post it anyway in case someone knows its exact use. Approx, 2 inches long with no makers mark that i can find.

 

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[wvwraith]

Could possibly be a musket ball. Do you know if the area you hunted in has any military history or possible encampments?

 

[cadman68]

yes it does wraith....civil war skirmishes in the area throughout the war, i have found one other bullet but not of this type the other one was a fired three ring. This was found only about 50 feet from the fired one actually. I thought it too small to be a bullet, i suppose it could have been from a pistol of some sort? its about the size of your standard clamp type fishing sinker, maybe 3 times the size of a bb.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

If it's 1/3 the width of a dime I'd guess buckshot instead of musket ball. They'd be more dime diameter.

 

[wvwraith]

I know with some of the confederate muskets they used buck and ball. Was thinking it could be a pistol bullet too. Nice find though!