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[Nathan W]

Had a few hours today so I decided to go somewhere besides my workplace site. Found some ammo and related items and a curious bullet tip, but I don't think it's a bullet

 

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[camichael]

arrow tip

 

[robertk]

Yep, definitely an arrow tip. Looks like it even still has part of the shaft attached.

 

[bailingwater]

I think it's a bullet. It has a crimp ring around it. Probably .30 full metal jacket since it's not deformed.

 

[djackson7348]

Nathan, just curious. What do you do for a living? You sure seem to come across a lot of great sites.

 

[Nathan W]

Nathan, just curious. What do you do for a living? You sure seem to come across a lot of great sites.

I do park maintenance for three parks in my county

 

[Blackfoot58]

I think it looks like an adornment/tip from a small flag. Many had such metal tips inserted with wooden dowel “poles”.
Sometimes used on the graves of veterans. More recently they began making them all wood, to reduce cost.
US flags, DAR, VFW, etc.

 

[djackson7348]

I do park maintenance for three parks in my county

Until I retired, I had a job that required me to travel about 30,000+ miles a year in the state. Used to see a lot of places with potential. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop and check it out because I was driving a state owned vehicle. Getting caught doing something like that can cost your job and people were always calling in if they seen someone in a state vehicle regardless if it was lunch time. I understand the public watching since they were paying for it but still would have been nice to look around. Some sites I got back to but nowhere near as many as I would have liked to.

Keep 'em coming, I think we all enjoy seeing your finds.

 

[Nathan W]

Until I retired, I had a job that required me to travel about 30,000+ miles a year in the state. Used to see a lot of places with potential. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop and check it out because I was driving a state owned vehicle. Getting caught doing something like that can cost your job and people were always calling in if they seen someone in a state vehicle regardless if it was lunch time. I understand the public watching since they were paying for it but still would have been nice to look around. Some sites I got back to but nowhere near as many as I would have liked to.

Keep 'em coming, I think we all enjoy seeing your finds.

Yeah I'm always watching others. When I go at lunch I hit a church near the park that had an old home once on it. It's produced a good bit over the years. My only other site is about 25 acres behind park woods that I work at. It had some activity but I haven't found as much there. It's almost impossible in summer.

I got a few solid places outside of work when I get the time and when my friends can go.

 

[RobNC]

I'd say it's a bullet. Although it is always different when seeing something in person it looks like to me in your pictures there are rifling marks on the bullet which means it was fired of course. Either that or it could indeed be a fired bullet that was then crafted into something else.
It is odd though at the base of the bullet. There is no reason for it to have that protrusion at the base.

 

[RobNC]

Yeah I'm always watching others. When I go at lunch I hit a church near the park that had an old home once on it. It's produced a good bit over the years. My only other site is about 25 acres behind park woods that I work at. It had some activity but I haven't found as much there. It's almost impossible in summer.

I got a few solid places outside of work when I get the time and when my friends can go.

Impossible in the summer? So that means you won't be sharing your wonderful blood with the ticks and mosquitos. They will be very disappointed.

 

[djackson7348]

Yeah I'm always watching others. When I go at lunch I hit a church near the park that had an old home once on it. It's produced a good bit over the years. My only other site is about 25 acres behind park woods that I work at. It had some activity but I haven't found as much there. It's almost impossible in summer.

I got a few solid places outside of work when I get the time and when my friends can go.

For summertime, I like to hit schools. Many of them are built on sites where early schools were located. The old stuff is not frequent but sometimes outstanding. At a 1950s school I was found a 1786 Vermontensium.

 

[Nathan W]

Impossible in the summer? So that means you won't be sharing your wonderful blood with the ticks and mosquitos. They will be very disappointed.

The undergrowth is way to bad for the time permitting there

 

[Nathan W]

I think it looks like an adornment/tip from a small flag. Many had such metal tips inserted with wooden dowel “poles”.
Sometimes used on the graves of veterans. More recently they began making them all wood, to reduce cost.
US flags, DAR, VFW, etc.

It's got this marks on it all the way around the straight lines (in blue)

 

[Nathan W]

I'd say it's a bullet. Although it is always different when seeing something in person it looks like to me in your pictures there are rifling marks on the bullet which means it was fired of course. Either that or it could indeed be a fired bullet that was then crafted into something else.
It is odd though at the base of the bullet. There is no reason for it to have that protrusion at the base.

Maybe the guy was making trench art, who knows . Man that would be nice to find something in that category

 

[releventchair]

Looks like a bullet to me. i don't know what the insert is about but I'm no military round buff.
And it looks like you unearthed a couple O3A3 (30-06) stripper clips.
There are other similar clips like Swedish that don't match yours..

 

[Nathan W]

Looks like a bullet to me. i don't know what the insert is about but I'm no military round buff.
And it looks like you unearthed a couple O3A3 (30-06) stripper clips.
There are other similar clips like Swedish that don't match yours..

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Yeah I've got a couple other clips from another site around turn of century

 

[Almy]

The bullet is a fired (evidence: rifling marks(, full metal jacket military type. Those bullets would have lead filling the jacket, and that's what it looks like is sticking out of the base. The metal jacket normally covers the whole bullet, including the base. You could check the caliber with a micrometer. It could be the same as the ammunition for the clips.
The iron table knife has an old (1700s or earlier) shape.

 

[robertk]

Is the part at the base metal? My first impression was that it was wood, which is why I said arrow tip. But an arrow tip wouldn't have rifling.

 

[Nathan W]

Is the part at the base metal? My first impression was that it was wood, which is why I said arrow tip. But an arrow tip wouldn't have rifling.

Yes it's metal