Musket Ball?

[Meyerstone]

I am in South Central Michigan and found this metal detecting today. Any idea on what it is? Thanks in advance!

 

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[ncsuwolf]

Wow, you're right. I powered it off then weighed again. Shows 280 grain

That translates into a .571” ball, not accounting for loss due to chewing/damage

 

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[Meyerstone]

Same field found this odd shape of lead. Kind of the shape of a birds skull.

 

[Beeps in my sleep]

Same field found this odd shape of lead. Kind of the shape of a birds skull.
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That looks like a fired ball or campfire victim

 

[ncsuwolf]

I’d guess your second item is scrap lead or a “drip” when someone was pouring lead. Could have been making bullets, fishing weights, plumbing a house, etc…..

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Sure, It tips the scale at 8 grams

Again I must reiterate im no expert on ye olde ballistics but I've a certain amount of experience with them MDing.
A few years ago I came across a concentration of English civil war musket, carbine and pistol shot. The smallest of the those balls, the pistol shot ended to be about 8 - 12 grams. The big musket balls where around 30 grams (ouch)
Not long ago I was given a permission that has so far been my most productive. It's just a meadow attached to an old farmhouse and has produced coins a dating as far back as the 13th century right through to the modern age. It's also littered with balls all at a similar weight and diameter to yours. I've never tried to figure out their age, its just not something that massively interests me to be frank, and I'm usually coming away from there with more interesting finds to research but I found two silver plated buttons that had the initials C L and a crown above. I found out these are officer buttons of a militia formed in 1802 as the threat of a Napoleonic invasion loomed.
And so i made the connection rightly or wrongly that this explains the shot as this was probably where these militiamen where practising for an invasion that never was.
So im going with that musket ball being from 1802!
Mystery solved.
But now for the chewing bit I guess.

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

I am in South Central Michigan and found this metal detecting today. Any idea on what it is? Thanks in advance!View attachment 2171239

cool find!!

 

[Digger RJ]

I am in South Central Michigan and found this metal detecting today. Any idea on what it is? Thanks in advance!View attachment 2171239

Nice!!! Congrats!!!