🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Odd lead items

[hampton detector]

Hi all, so I found these items near a mid 1800s home in the woods. They are made of lead and have tapered hole all the way thru approx 1/2” at widest down to 3/8” or so and total height is about 1-1/2” overall. They look like they were poured in the dirt as you can see the outer surfaces are very crude and rough. Any info is appreciated thanks

 

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[Blackfoot58]

Quite irregular in shape. Possibly homemade weights for a fishing seine (?). They look too small for decoy weights. Good luck

 

[ColtsPop]

Soldiers poured lead in all kinds of holes when they were bored, ant beds, crawdad holes, etc.

 

[creskol]

what do the bottoms of the lead pieces look like?

 

[Blackfoot58]

Soldiers poured lead in all kinds of holes when they were bored, ant beds, crawdad holes, etc.

That’s interesting. I would have thought lead to be a guarded commodity for soldiers, like gunpowder.

 

[hampton detector]

what do the bottoms of the lead pieces look like?

It looks like they made a hole in the ground and put an object in and poured the lead around it 🤔