✅ SOLVED Do you think these relics indicate a potentially good site?

[Rustic]

It has been a long winter for me, and I was excited to finally be able to have time to get out in the woods and detect. No great finds today, but I may be hunting a likely area for colonial relics, not sure really, so wanted to show what I've found and see if these may be colonial bits and pieces, (or not).

The piece of axe is unusual in the way it is broken in a semicircular way, looks on purpose, perhaps to make it useful as a scraper or other hand tool?

But what I'm really curious about are the 2 pieces of lead: One looks like it started as a big musket ball and was hand carved into something else (but what?), and the second is flat, button like, even seems to have a layer of shiny gilt, but it has a square hole on the back and doesn't look like any button I've seen before. Any ideas what era these relics might be from, or what they might be? I tried to get close up photos:

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Pretty cool! Could that top piece be the top of a powder horn? Just a wild guess but hey.

 

[Rustic]

That's a good idea, it does look like a plug of some kind.

 

[Rowdy Yates]

The round disk with the square hole looks like part of the wick height adjuster on an oil lamp. Many times they have patent dates on them.

HTH,

Rick

 

[NOLA_Ken]

First one is a fairly modern shotgun slug. Don't know about the rest, but that chain looks pretty old so I'd definitely hunt the place

 

[Rustic]

Oh that's good to know, thank you. I had never seen a shotgun slug before.

 

[Rustic]

The round disk with the square hole looks like part of the wick height adjuster on an oil lamp. Many times they have patent dates on them.

HTH,

Rick

Thank you, I knew someone would recognize it. I guess I'll search around that area some more and see what else there is.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

NOLA_Ken is right, as usual... it is a 20th-Century shorgun slug. Here is some more-detailed info about it. Your fired shotgun slug has flat-topped ridges on its sides because it was made for use in a Rifled Shotgun. The photo below shows what yours looked like before it smacked into something so hard that it got "mushroomed" and thus is shorter than before it was fired.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Is that another coin below the dime in the group shot? I would definitely hunt the site going by the pictures you have posted.

 

[Rustic]

Yes, there were a couple of unreadable coins too. I'm going to try to get out there again this weekend. Hopefully find a notable relic to share with you all. Best of luck in your hunts too.

 

[digger460]

I'd say your on a good spot. You'll really know, when you find a piece of harmonica Good Hunting!!

 

[Bruce R]

There's been some threads on this forum on lead nail head caps, you might check them out.

 

[Terry Soloman]

First one is a fairly modern shotgun slug. Don't know about the rest, but that chain looks pretty old so I'd definitely hunt the place

Yes, I DO feel stoo-pid! Nice ID NOLA_Ken.

 

[Bruce R]

Why do you feel stupid ? I thought it was an earplug. Those cannon were pretty loud !