What in the world is this?

[relicmagnet]

It has a star in the inside middle of it and the bullet with a ring around the top of it. That's a first for me. I think the bigger object is brass but I am unsure please refer to the photos bellow. I found these two particular items in Mechanicsville Virginia.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your bullet is a .54 or .58-caliber 3-groove ("3-ringer") Minie bullet from the civil war. Most (but not nearly all) 3-groove Minie bullets were yankee-made. The small groove encircling its top ought to be the mark of a ramrod, used in loading the bullet into a muzzleloader rifle. The ramrod-mark indicates the bullet was fired, but flew a long way without hitting anything before it ran out of energy and fell to earth without much damage. Or, the nose groove could be from a double-helix bulletworm, and the bullet's miss-shapenness is due to being stepped on. Need some closeup photos of the nose groove to know which of those two possibilities is the correct answer.

I think the other object is a fired 20th-Century shotgun slug.

 

[relicmagnet]

Thanks. I hope to find some more stuff around the house tomorrow. That makes sense that the ram rod would leave a mark like that.

 

[oldsilver]

yes I agree with the flat thing. Fired shot flattened on impact.

 

[Spats]

Not all bullets hit head on for various reasons. I think you have a bullet that glanced off a tree or other object or impacted on the side.