bergie
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(An expert on the area just told me the exact location I was searching was used in the 60s and 70s as a live firing range for re-enactors, so I've been finding their bullets, not those of the original soldiers. Explains why there are no other artifacts. That area was probably picked over years ago. Wish the guy hadn't told me, then I would still think they were real.)
I hit an area adjacent to this site of Washington's troops (link below) and found a large flat area about the size of half a football field in the woods. I started hitting musketballs and they were everywhere in several sizes, from the regular about the size of the end third of a fat thumb and almost perfectly round except very bottom is flat, to smaller ones about the size of a pencil eraser (but almost perfectly round). Also many fired ones (flat or mushroom shaped). Weird thing is I found nothing else at all. Very strange not to find any buttons there or anything else with so many musketballs. I covered only a fraction of the area, but should have found somthing else. There could be hundreds of musketballs there, as I was finding them every few swings of the coil. I have to go count, but I found around 20 or so (corrected: just counted and it's closer to 50). Will be going back to see.
Thanks. Any ID on that more modern looking bullet (1800s?) appreciated. It's hollow in the back and has three grooves around the circumference. Also, given this was Washington's troop site, at least some of the guys who lost these must have known or met Washington.
http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute9w/windsor/default.htm
I hit an area adjacent to this site of Washington's troops (link below) and found a large flat area about the size of half a football field in the woods. I started hitting musketballs and they were everywhere in several sizes, from the regular about the size of the end third of a fat thumb and almost perfectly round except very bottom is flat, to smaller ones about the size of a pencil eraser (but almost perfectly round). Also many fired ones (flat or mushroom shaped). Weird thing is I found nothing else at all. Very strange not to find any buttons there or anything else with so many musketballs. I covered only a fraction of the area, but should have found somthing else. There could be hundreds of musketballs there, as I was finding them every few swings of the coil. I have to go count, but I found around 20 or so (corrected: just counted and it's closer to 50). Will be going back to see.
Thanks. Any ID on that more modern looking bullet (1800s?) appreciated. It's hollow in the back and has three grooves around the circumference. Also, given this was Washington's troop site, at least some of the guys who lost these must have known or met Washington.
http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute9w/windsor/default.htm
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