small relic (native american?)

trancedigger23

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Apr 11, 2017
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I found this small thing when I was out before in the forest. It's ringing up as a solid nickel after I cleaned it up best I could quick and is 1.2 centimeters long. There's very fine, small line designs in it and one side has a very slight lip to it. The back is completely flat indicating it was most likely made in a simple mold. It's not magnetic and is very solid, you can't break this thing easily.

At first when I dug it up I thought I found yet another piece of bullet, then after a closer look I thought it may have been a worn arrow head. Then I noticed it was actually smooth to the touch/look and very well preserved compared to every other thing I dug up. Has a little weight to it but I don't have anything weight it with. There was nothing else near it indicating it was part of something and it was about 4 inches down. Found on the upper part of a path in the forest nearing a cliff, nothing around in the environment that hints at what it is either since everything else in the general area was just bullets and random scrap. I don't know what I have here but the design doesn't match up with anything other than vaguely native american and it's too well preserved as metal to appear to be any sort of design piece on a more recent anything. Any ideas on what it could be?
 

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Looks like a smashed bullet head
 

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Well it was a cool find I'm keeping anyways cause that is just weird. Finding bullets is getting pretty tiring, it's like the pull tab of the forests of connecticut at least around here.
 

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Well if they don't have a CW connection you can melt them down for fishing sinkers, re purpose them.And you are cleaning the woods for future generations.
 

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Well it was a cool find I'm keeping anyways cause that is just weird. Finding bullets is getting pretty tiring, it's like the pull tab of the forests of connecticut at least around here.

I melt them down and recast then. My fowler shoots a 410 grain/0.650" ball and that's about equal to a 12 gauge slug.

Between the .22 LG bullets and empty cases I can beep all day in the local woods.
 

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