Fishing weight, bullet, bead, or???

[bonepicker]

At first I thought it was a bullet, it definitely has the old white patina.
Then I noticed the hole that goes all the way through it. My first guesses were fishing weight or cast net lead.
But ive fished all my life and ive never seen a fishing weight that looked quite like this one..
It was found near the bayou at my post rev war flat button site along with my St Philomena necklace thingy today.
Thanks

 

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[d2]

Could it have been a skirt weight for a casting net?d2

 

[DCMatt]

It seems too small to be a bullet or a weight of any kind.

I would guess it's a bead but this sort of thing is out of my bailiwick.

DCMatt

 

[bonepicker]

Could it have been a skirt weight for a casting net?d2

I was leaning towards the cast net weight idea.
Seems pretty light for a mullet net though, mullet net weights are usually heavy to sink fast.
Its more like a breal net weight. For shrimp and baitfish.
Most nets have around 30 weights though, so its possible

It seems too small to be a bullet or a weight of any kind.
I would guess it's a bead but this sort of thing is out of my bailiwick.
DCMatt

I was also entertaining the bead idea, but when I think of beads, glass beads come to mind.
Don't know If they made beads out of lead, but then again theres a lot that I don't know.

 

[Old_Okie]

Looks to me like part of the center post from an old battery.

 

[Crispin]

Looks like it was surrounded by iron at some point in time. I can see remains of rust on it and in it. Is it faintly magnetic?