✅ SOLVED Found in Backyard

[Hunk-a-lead]

Found in a Kansas City backyard, house built in the early 70s. 3 lead weights with no markings at all, found within about 20’ of each other. Each is smooth and weighs approximately 5 ounces. They are big and heavy but I have not been able to identify them. Could have been associated with an adjacent clothes line. Any ideas? Thanks for peeking at my mysteries.

 

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[jewelerguy]

looks like they were made in the bowl of a serving spoon, which is easy since lead has such a low melting point. You can melt lead with just a simple flame by holding it over the flame in a spoon. Looks to me like someone was just goofing around with it. Possibly had been making fishing weights or something

 

[Trimbaker]

Hello, nice find. I would say you have found camp lead. Lead would be gathered and melted into hunks that could be melted and poured into bullet molds when there was idle time to do so. I reckon you have a frontier camp there underfoot.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Thanks Jewelerguy. Patrick from Amphibious Detectors said the same thing. I bet you nailed it.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the response.