What is it? Canonball fuse?

[SPWalker]

What is it? Can it be a canonball fuse?

I dug this recently at a site in South Texas. In the general area I found some cannonball fragments and 1860’s artillery buttons.

I am thinking it is a fuse of some sort. It is steel with brass end caps and a brass pin in the top. The steel looks to be one piece with groves in it.

Thank you.

SPWalker

 

[keith2004]

old battery me thinks.....

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

Man that is a hard one...fuse no, battery no...a dewy ...most likely! Good luck on the next outing me bouy!