Unison Battle Field finds 2 huge Artty ?? Plumb Bobs??

MonkeyBoy · Sep 12, 2009

These are my finds from this mornings hunt...

The two plumbs and the carved sharps were found in the same hole.. Not exactly sure what they are.. fishing weights? I've seen where people have attributed them to cannon.. ?? No idea.. I also found 1 Indian Head... a buff nickle and a pretty good mid1970s pocket spill. Also dug some melted lead and some bullets.

MonkeyBoy

After 6 hours of metal detecting.. i got home and we went bottle digging... see the next post.

spartacus53 · Sep 12, 2009

Nice finds, but the lead does look like old fishing weights :dontknow:

MonkeyBoy · Sep 12, 2009

spartacus53 said:
Nice finds, but the lead does look like old fishing weights

They do to me too.. but the fact that the sharps was in the same hole.. weird. The were in a pile all together I dug them as one big signal.. I swearI read someplace that they used a sort of plumb bob when setting the trajectory of the cannons.. ?/

Tank69 · Sep 12, 2009

very nice finds

cwdigger · Sep 12, 2009

Nice saves :icon_thumleft:

Bavaria Mike · Sep 13, 2009

The plumb bobs are cool finds, I have found a few here but hard to say if they are from a cannon aiming kit or a mason's tool box, LOL. HH, Mike

Championhilz · Sep 13, 2009

From the look of the carving on some of your bullets, they and the "plumb bobs," may have been sinkers that the soldiers had made for fishing. They are common finds in Civil War camps, I have dug several myself. Were they found near a water source?

MonkeyBoy · Sep 13, 2009

Championhilz said:
From the look of the carving on some of your bullets, they and the "plumb bobs," may have been sinkers that the soldiers had made for fishing. They are common finds in Civil War camps, I have dug several myself. Were they found near a water source?

Completely agree.. yes they were found close to a small creek.. but almost as close to where some projectiles were found too. These are not carved like the "normal" fishing weights I have found made from bullets... but look like they were cast.. and a heck of a lot bigger then one or two bullets.. ?? Probably the work of a bored soldier!!

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