ok CW experts, did i find my CS camp or not?

[Bell]

Been looking for a CS camp and I think I found it today. I hit it for a couple hours today and found five of these balls, all the same, all fired but one, and all in a small area. All have a flat base and the unfired one appears to have three small dots in a circle on
the base. They apear to be around .70 cal. Everyone I've showed them to has had diferent opinions on what they are and I won't say what they said here to keep from influencing opinions, so if anyone knows please weigh in. Either way I hope it means I found my camp. Also found this piece of sterling.

 

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[worldtalker]

Bell,you sure found something!!That silver piece is beautiful! God Bless Chris

 

[BuckleBoy]

YES! Those are Confederate shotgun slugs, and they are VERY nice bullets to dig!

The silver piece is very nice as well. Perhaps part of a pair of scissors or similar. Is it marked?

I will post a link to similar bullets. By the way, keep your camp location to yourself and guard it closely! Others have had difficulty with poachers lately.

Be safe and HH,


Buckleboy

 

[BuckleBoy]

OK here's a link to one like the dropped one you found in your last photos. VERY nice $48 bullet (#4 in the link below).

Congratulations,

Buckles

http://www.midtenrelics.com/bullets.htm

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Way to go Nick....If anyone knows, it's Will...(Buckleboy) Congrats man

 

[Bell]

Thanks everyone, and I agree on the identification. Although I wonder who decided something would be called a slug versus a ball when you are talking about big bore muskets, but ill take it either way! And yes I think the silver is a scissor loop. Its marked sterling.

 

[James from TN]

It looks like you are on the verge of hitting your CS camp. Those are some very desirable bullets. If you can locate where they were shooting them from, you may hit the mother load on CS Shotgun Slugs along with all the other CS relics that come out of camps. I hope you keep us posted since we don't dig those slugs in our part of the country. I agree you need to be careful because if word gets out you will have people following your car to try to locate your hot spot. I have had it happen unfortunately. If you need help with other bullets you may find, try this link and it may help: http://www.baymediapro.com/collection/. Good luck

 

[jewelerguy]

sweet finds

 

[Daedalus]

The Silver ring item looks like a pipe tamper !
I'm not positive on that one but it looks like a few that I have .

 

[Ken in Georgia]

sweet finds

 

[americancivilwarrelics]

Bell,

Nice finds. You have what people have called the tall .69 Shotgun Slug. They are actually Confederate .69 Smoothbore projectiles and are a Nessler (Crimean War) pattern. They were manufactured at the North Carolina school for the Deaf & Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you can find out where the dropped ones are you will be into come great money. Fired ones typically run $25-50.00. If you find a perfect dropped on they can sell for up to $275.00. The tall pattern that you have is the rarest of the three Nessler Patterns. Nice Finds!

 

[ivan salis]

old blackpowder type 12 gauge - .69 caliber "tall" type shotgun slugs * of the type used during the civil war by confederate troops -- sawed off shotguns loaded with buckshot were commonly carried by calvary troops for up close attacks when it tight quarters numbers of union troops might charge and try to pull you off your horse or attack with bayonets in masse-- so a sawed off double barreled shotgun and its blast of buckshot would often turn the tide in the confederate calvarymans favor) --while long barreled shotguns were often used with "slugs" and were normally used by confederate foot soldiers ( longer barrels and use of a slug = more range)

 

[Bell]

Thanks everyone.

Bell,

Nice finds. You have what people have called the tall .69 Shotgun Slug. They are actually Confederate .69 Smoothbore projectiles and are a Nessler (Crimean War) pattern. They were manufactured at the North Carolina school for the Deaf & Blind in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you can find out where the dropped ones are you will be into come great money. Fired ones typically run $25-50.00. If you find a perfect dropped on they can sell for up to $275.00. The tall pattern that you have is the rarest of the three Nessler Patterns. Nice Finds!

That's what Dean Thomas told me and seems to be correct. I've found five fired so far and one unfired. They are the first minies I've found since I got back into detecting so what a way to start. I thought about detecting where they were fired from, and its easy to tell given the lay of the land, but unfortunately the landowners house is right on top of it. Nonetheless ill keep at it.