Pistol Ball In Situ

[Bharpring]

Last weekend I went out to a remote site in Richmond Hill, GA to metal detect. The site had produced a number of confederate civil war relics and other old items dating to around the turn of the century. I didn’t find a lot but did manage to find this weird shard of wood with a nice signal inside. It actually took a little time to identify that the signal was coming from inside the wood. I had seen people find civil war bullets stuck in wood and thought there would be a chance (no pun intended) that a bullet was shot into a tree many years ago by a civil war soldier, the tree torn down and shredded by construction and discovered by me. So I kept it and let it sit for a few days in my garage. This morning I decided to take a knife and pry the wood open along a growth line. The wood opened perfectly and revealed this lead pistol ball. It is totally surrounded by old tree sap so it’s perfectly preserved. I don’t know if the pistol ball came from a soldier, but it’s old and a neat find.

 

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[djackson7348]

Wow! Talk about a great display piece.

 

[jewelerguy]

very cool!

 

[mirage83]

I've always hoped to find something like that.

 

[gunsil]

Hundreds of those in the trees behind where I used to live and shoot thousands of rounds with muzzle loaders with my friends. Cool to find but impossible to date.

 

[MCX]

Very cool!

 

[Relicific]

Quite the conversation piece

 

[Capone]

Id dip bothof those in some kind of preservation wax and display them in some kind of case. Fantastic find! Banner worthy.

 

[Digger RJ]

Cool display piece!! Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet find! Preserve it and display, very cool!