🔎 UNIDENTIFIED OK GUYS its lead but what is it?

[Emerson_ashe]

Maybe a hand made fishing lure. Found in long island. South hampton area. So homemade fishing lure seems fitting

 

[DizzyDigger]

Looks like a lead bullet encrusted with some other lead pieces. Don't think it's any kind of lure.

 

[ticndig]

buck and ball ,maybe civil war?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

I've seen something extremely similar during my decades of digging "early-war" army campsites and battlefields. It appears to be a .69-caliber Buck-'n'-Ball paper-cartridge which got tossed into a campfire after a soldier used the gunpowder to start the campfire. The heavy lead contents caused the cartridge to fall down through the burning branches into the embers on the ground. The cool ground retarded the melting process enough to let the basic form of the buckshot and main ball retain their basic shape. Some of the small balls did get hot enough to melt completely. It is an uncommon find, but I've seen more than just a couple of examples come from civil war army campsite firepits.

 

[Emerson_ashe]

I've seen something extremely similar during my decades of digging "early-war" army campsites and battlefields. It appears to be a .69-caliber Buck-'n'-Ball paper-cartridge which got tossed into a campfire after a soldier used the gunpowder to start the campfire. The heavy lead contents caused the cartridge to fall down through the burning branches into the embers on the ground. The cool ground retarded the melting process enough to let the basic form of the buckshot and main ball retain their basic shape. Some of the small balls did get hot enough to melt completely. It is an uncommon find, but I've seen more than just a couple of examples come from civil war army campsite firepits.

Yes after looking I agree buck n ball!!

 

[GaRebel1861]

Looks like you can mark this one as solved.

 

[Older The Better]

Way cooler than a fishing weight, sometimes the Id comes as a pleasant surprise

 

[Gare]

didn't they some times put more then one item in behind the initial ball ? So like a shotgun effect ?

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

Maybe a hand made fishing lure. Found in long island. South hampton area. So homemade fishing lure seems fitting

looks to me like buck and ball that laid close to a campfire and partially fused