🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help Identify led object

[michael NY]

I dug this yesterday it was over 10 inches deep. The area it came from I have dug Revolutionary war musket balls from and buckles. The item is made of lead it has the same color as dug old led from the ground. The holes are crude. The tape measure is there to give a more better size of the item. Thank you for any ideas

Michael

 

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[michael NY]

I finally had time to make a trip to the Battle Sight Museum in NY, one of the only reason going here because my brother knows the archaeologist. I showed him this piece and told him how I dug it with a metal detector, getting lots of questions of where it was private land. This land borders the Hudson River ,
My guess even telling the guy from the museum the piece was a weight for a duck decoy, I am still think its colonial of the color of the led depth of the object. it was found feet from a lake, from some research and there was same exact one found posted a while ago. Well he called me today asking me how i knew that I was correct in my guess he was very surprised to say the least. I got a welcome back if I find anything else I would like to have identified.
thanks for looking
Michael

 

[Almy]

Wooden duck decoys have been used for a very long time. I'm not sure whether they were used as far back as colonial times, but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Tony in SC]

Reminds me of an old powder ladle with out the handle?

 

[Blackfoot58]

Sometimes live ducks were tied out as decoys. Before game laws forbade it.

 

[Tpmetal]

Reminds me of an ox knob but looks like someone put holes in it for some reason, maybe it kept falling off so they nailed that sucker? Never heard of a lead ox knob as well so probably not.