✅ SOLVED Is this from a weapon ?

[Farmer732]

I found this in my yard in Connecticut. My house was built around 1800. It is magnetic. I’m new to metal detecting so I am finding a lot of items that I’m having trouble identifying. This site has been great in that regard. I’m learning every day.

 

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[nsdq]

Other view will help,, looks like a rivit off a car frame

 

[Farmer732]

Sorry. It’s round like a ball.

 

[releventchair]

Might be a spent ball bearing.

Hardness of metal matters in a firearm projectile.
IF hard the barrel needs to be protected from it.

 

[hotdogs1]

artillery, grapeshot

 

[Indian Steve]

If it is magnetic, like you said, I would guess a ball bearing. I shot thousands with a slingshot as a kid. Deadly on squirrels & rabbits.

 

[Farmer732]

Kind of big for a slingshot. It’s approximately one inch in diameter and weighs 64 grams. I can’t believe it could have ever been a ball bearing. It has corroded very unevenly with a very irregular surface.

 

[gldnbrew]

Might be a spent ball bearing.

Hardness of metal matters in a firearm projectile.
IF hard the barrel needs to be protected from it.

Ditto on the grapeshot, should weigh in the neighborhood of 110 grams

 

[Farmer732]

Thanks gldnbrew. I’d like to think it’s something more than a ball bearing. It does only weigh 64 grams but it is quite corroded so I suppose that could account for the difference.