Cut cannon ball?

[Misuraco]

Can anyone help identify this? It looks like a cut cannon ball it’s heavy and is made out of lead. Any guesses or answers would be great

 

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[Red James Cash]

The first problem is cannon balls werent made out of lead.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Backfiller to a breatplate or rosette?

 

[jewelerguy]

my guess is it's maybe left-over lead dumped from a plumber's lead melting pot

 

[Misuraco]

Lol yea I just read they weren’t made of lead. I have no idea what it could be though it looks and feels heavy like a cannon ball but it appears to be lead so idk. I have found musket balls, a civil war era navy button a half real, large cents and a bunch of other old coins and relics at this spot. If that helps at all.

 

[Red James Cash]

Probably left over lead from casting musket balls.

 

[Misuraco]

Also it’s a few miles from Fort Mifflin which was a huge rev war battle and it’s a few miles from camp Stockton which was a civil war camp

 

[Subterranean]

my guess is it's maybe left-over lead dumped from a plumber's lead melting pot

 

[sawmill man]

Just about the size of a ladle . so i will go with left over bullet making lead. but of coarse it could be from a plumber, but old time bullet making sounds cooler.

 

[Misuraco]

Yea let’s go with old time bullet making lead lol

 

[BosnMate]

The way I read it, it's 7 inches across. Therefore, I think it was left in the melting pot, and lead was either ladled out to make a plumbers seal, or, to cast bullets, and when they were finished, the pot was set aside, the lead hardened and was saved to be used later, and later never came.

 

[jewelerguy]

The way I read it, it's 7 inches across. Therefore, I think it was left in the melting pot, and lead was either ladled out to make a plumbers seal, or, to cast bullets, and when they were finished, the pot was set aside, the lead hardened and was saved to be used later, and later never came.

the inch scale is on the bottom of the caliper, so it's reading about 2.75 inches, but either way I think we all come up with the same conclusion