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Not a .54-caliber ball, for two reasons. 1, the finder has got it incorrectly positioned in the caliper's jaws. It should go between the narrowest part of the jaws, not the wider. So, the caliper's "readout" of .538 is incorrect. The ball's diameter is actually larger than that. 2, a .54-caliber musketball (which by definition is forma muzzle-loading gun) is always smaller that the musket's bore-diameter. A .54-caliber musketball is typically somewhere between .520 and .530-inch. This ball is significantly larger than that.
As to whether this ball is a musketball or not... we'll have to check for a musketball diameter matchup after the digger measures it correctly and reports the result to us.
Additional closeup photos would also be helpful. There seems to be a raised sloped belt on it, which isn't a characteristic of a musketball. Maybe that's an optical illusion in the single closeup photo posted thus far. More photos, please.
OMG enough about the calipers, the question is if it's old or modern, my guess, old as heck! Mystery solved!
Your first complication was posting a photo of something positioned incorrectly in calipers and calling it a musketball. I understand that you only asked whether it was old or not. A quick google search could have answered that for you, it did for me once. However since you posted photos with it in the calipers, TheCannonballGuy figured you may have also wanted to know what type of projectile it is. After all, he is a projectile expert and I don't see his reply as anything but inquisitive and informative. His questions based on the photo observations were necessary from what I'm looking at.Thank you Andy0820 and coin123. All I was asking was for someone to say they were modern or old.
I ask a simple question that was made complicated by people that could not answer it.
BFR
"I ask a simple question that was made complicated by people that could not answer it"
And this will help alienate yourself from answers to future questions, especially from TheCannonballGuy. Matter of fact TheCannonballGuy's comment was directed to Bigcypresshunter. I like most others (I assume) thought this thread would eventually head down the path for a proper ID and perhaps TheCannonballGuy was getting in front of it.
After all your post is in the "What Is It" forum.
If your satisfied with the answer, give this thread a proper solved green check mark, that's a nice way of saying thanks and also a nice way of "closing" the thread.
TheCannonballGuy is the only one that seem to have any clue as to weather it was an old or modern musket ball or just a round piece of lead with some patina. And since he did make reference to me as the digger and the finder in my post it was directed at also. Based on that I posted more pictures which showed that at 2 different points around the dia, it measured .536-.540. The caliper pictures were removed, because they were just confusing those that could not tell the difference between a bad picture and a bad measurement,
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