✅ SOLVED Please help identify this ( possible ) artillery sabot!

[Johnathon78]

Greetings folks!

Can anyone identify this item I recently found metal detecting? MY guess is it’s a brass sabot from a cannon round. It was found approx 30’ from where a buddy dug a GREAT shenkyl shell fuse. The area is known for being the location of a small artillery duel. Item appears to have rifling to the outside band. Heavy in weight, definitely not lead.

Thoughts anyone? Thanks in advance.

 

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[buck8point]

that does look like rifling grooves on outer edge.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It is indeed a piece of the sabot from a civil war artillery shell. More specifically, it is a piece of the copper ring sabot from a Confederate Read artillery shell. It shows enough rifling-grooves on it for me to be able to tell you it was fired from a Confederate-made 3"-caliber Rifled cannon.

Just for my curiosity... where did you dig it? Also, do you know when that artillery duel was fought?

 

[Johnathon78]

Hey thanks for the input! Located in Greenbrier Co. WV, site of small battle fought Aug 1863