possible lead pendant from shipwreck

[GatorBoy]

I could probably clean this a little better but I want to be careful.
Has anyone seen anything similar from an early florida shipwreck?
I'm almost positive that this is a broken loop on the top.
Any thoughts or comments welcome.
Also.. the lack of white oxidation is fairly common in the type of environment it was found.

 

[huntsman53]

Why do think it is lead? If it is a pendant from a shipwreck, it is more than likely made of Silver! A good conservation of the piece and testing would determine for sure.


Frank

 

[GatorBoy]

Other items found in close proximity.

 

[GatorBoy]

Why do think it is lead? If it is a pendant from a shipwreck, it is more than likely made of Silver! A good conservation of the piece and testing would determine for sure.

Frank

It reads low on my detector and seems softer than silver to me...but I should probably test further.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[GatorBoy]

This is the other side

 

[Dell Winders]

Looks like a link from a chainsaw blade. Dell

 

[GatorBoy]

Definitely not from a chainsaw.

 

[huntsman53]

This is the other side

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If it is in fact lead and considering the concentric circles, I would imagine that it was used as solder to hold two pieces of something together, what that something is, remains a mystery!


Frank

 

[Darren in NC]

It's a melted blob from heat. It has a small, non-melted piece still intact. I've seen countless pieces like this. May be from a shipwreck, maybe not. Interesting.

 

[Jolly Mon]

Great stuff...but I am with Darren on the "pendant". An object that size made of lead would never have any structural integrity. I find bazillions of small pieces of unidentified lead water hunting. It could be a scrap from the casting of a musket ball. Back in the day, people kept every little lead scrap they could find to recast into new musket balls.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks guys.. I think it must be one of those things I looked at a bit too long..LOL.

 

[PhipsFolly]

So how's the lead pendant? What's up with that? Figure out what it is yet?

 

[GatorBoy]

I did get as far as having a conversation with a gentleman from the historical society and was told that there are possibly nearly identical examples on display in the 1715 fleet artifact room at the museum on Seaway Dr
in Fort Pierce.
I'm heading there on Sunday.