Unusual Civil War Relic

[Scrounge Wanderer]

I detected another 'hunted out' cellar hole dating back to late 1780s and was used briefly as a camp after the incident at Dranesville during the civil war and found a few targets amongst the rubbish. The interesting find is the dropped 58 caliber roundball right next to an unusual period object that at first I thought resembled the thermocouple off a furnace but then it hit me that it looked like a gun brush. After some research I believe what I have based on other things found in proximity on this hunt and previous is that this is a carbine cleaning brush from the US Civil war. Was a fun two hour hunt but ran out of time, thank you for looking!

P.S.- In my haste to post yesterday I incorrectly said I dug a 'lead saw tag' which is actually heavy brass, thanks for catching that fellow TH'ers!

 

[TomW244]

I detected another 'hunted out' cellar hole dating back to late 1780s and was used briefly as a camp after the incident at Dranesville during the civil war and found a few targets amongst the rubbish. The interesting find is the dropped 58 caliber roundball right next to an unusual period object that at first I thought resembled the thermocouple off a furnace but then it hit me that it looked like a gun brush. After some research I believe what I have based on other things found in proximity on this hunt and previous is that this is a carbine cleaning brush from the US Civil war. Was a fun two hour hunt but ran out of time, thank you for looking!

P.S.- In my haste to post yesterday I incorrectly said I dug a 'lead saw tag' which is actually heavy brass, thanks for catching that fellow TH'ers!

That is amazing! I have never seen one of those before! Congratulations!

 

[Digger RJ]

I detected another 'hunted out' cellar hole dating back to late 1780s and was used briefly as a camp after the incident at Dranesville during the civil war and found a few targets amongst the rubbish. The interesting find is the dropped 58 caliber roundball right next to an unusual period object that at first I thought resembled the thermocouple off a furnace but then it hit me that it looked like a gun brush. After some research I believe what I have based on other things found in proximity on this hunt and previous is that this is a carbine cleaning brush from the US Civil war. Was a fun two hour hunt but ran out of time, thank you for looking!

P.S.- In my haste to post yesterday I incorrectly said I dug a 'lead saw tag' which is actually heavy brass, thanks for catching that fellow TH'ers!

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!

 

[Scrounge Wanderer]

That is amazing! I have never seen one of those before! Congratulations!

Much appreciated, I dug some broken brass knuckles a few years ago and not realizing they were a period artifact I scrapped the brass (still kicking myself, I assumed they were modern trash) so am scared to throw away anything I cannot immediately identify. An old gunbrush is no gold coin but still think its pretty neat, thanks for looking!

 

[Bamasteve]

Nice piece of history you found there!

 

[pepperj]

It's always good to go back to a hard hit site and to dig a few more targets, and getting something that is different as the brush cleaner, well done.

 

[jewelerguy]

cool!

 

[Lenrac2]

Nice bunch of finds!