🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Lead Items Found at 1700's Tavern Site

[HIGHSTRUNG]

Been a while since I've gone beeping due to health issues. Finally got back out today to dig some headscratchers. Found these 2 items in the same hole at an old tavern site. Thought I found a coin spill but it appears to be smashed lead in a coin shape. One weighs .69oz and the other is .66oz. I was thinking maybe game pieces or something. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[pepperj]

Been a while since I've gone beeping due to health issues. Finally got back out today to dig some headscratchers. Found these 2 items in the same hole at an old tavern site. Thought I found a coin spill but it appears to be smashed lead in a coin shape. One weighs .69oz and the other is .66oz. I was thinking maybe game pieces or something. Any help would be appreciated.
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It's good hear your on themed and being able to get some detecting in again.
I would of thought the same thing being game pieces.
Cool recovery

 

[HIGHSTRUNG]

Thanks PJ!

 

[sibbley]

No idea what they are, but they sure are neat. I think sometimes the headscratchers are the best finds.

 

[Robot]

Hi Highstrung,
What they may be are Wine Seals.
Being that you found them at a Tavern's location and maybe British with the age I would guess 18th Century, not tin but lead?
Should be more at this location?
Try to read the label to get the manufacturer!

 

[HIGHSTRUNG]

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

My guess:
I'm mindful of the dig-site being a tavern. So I think your finds are a couple of lead wine-seals which somebody hammered flat. That might have been done by the tavern owner's bored kid. We civil war relic hunters find hammered-completely-flat musketballs and Minieballs in the (boring) winter encampments of both sides. Why? Because many-many of the soldiers were teenagers.