✅ SOLVED Strange lead fragments

[Patriot Relics]

Hey guys,

Dug these up along a river bank in Charleston, SC. They are each about half inch in diameter and are made of lead...I think. The tops appear to be textured with a checkered pattern and there is a round cut out in the bottom. I was think maybe left over slag from bullet casting? Any ideas.

 

[MT_Joe]

Handmade game pieces?

 

[duggap]

They look like the tops off old roofing nails. But usually they are just plain on the top.

 

[MuckyBottles]

I second gaming pieces

 

[Silver Searcher]

Handmade game pieces?

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That would be a good case for these....

SS

 

[MT_Joe]

Could be checkers. Looks like 2 distinct patterns.

 

[Helix]

Gaming pieces sounds good. Duggap also got me thinking about the old roofer nails that were the heads were covered with lead. Then the checker pattern was made when the nails were hit and set with a waffle head hammer? What happened to the nail though?

 

[MT_Joe]

Were they real close together or spread out?

 

[Patriot Relics]

Hey guys thanks for the comments,

I found 10 of them about a foot deep, within a 6 foot radius, and all in separate locations.

 

[d2]

Those are the lead from the head of roofing nails...d2

 

[Patriot Relics]

Having reviewed a few other similar postings, I think they are most likely lead nail caps. Strange though that there was no building there... Thanks to all for the help

 

[MT_Joe]

Works for me. I suppose the steel nails would have disintegrated long before the lead heads. And 2 different carpenters probably had different hammer head patterns on their hammers. And perhaps a rowboat rotted there.