✅ SOLVED Totally flummuxed - found in Confederate lines

[parsonwalker]

Made of lead, two stars - round with rectangle hole, about the size of a penny. Anybody have a clue??

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your find is the blown-out center part of a yankee Bormann fuze, used in cannonballs. I'm sure it is from a yankee-made one because no Confederate-made Bormann fuzes had a star marking -- which in this case denotes the specific Arsenal which manufactured that fuze. It is believed to be the Frankford Arsenal, in Pennsylvania.

By the way, Parsonwalker, welcome to TreasureNet's What-Is-It forum, the best place on the internet for getting accurate identification (and accurate time-dating) of unknown objects. I remember you from another civil war relic-hunting forum.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Walker- I responded too your question in the Civil War thread on Speed Laces that know one answered!

 

[parsonwalker]

Thanks Hut! I appreciate it, and really enjoy seeing what you uncover. Cannonball guy - my first thought was some kind of fuse part, but I had never seen anything like that, especially without any threads. An unexploded Bormann was found on this farm 30 years ago and lots of frags over the years. Thank you SO much - very cool to have such specific info!! Long live T-net!

 

[parsonwalker]

Your find is the blown-out center part of a yankee Bormann fuze, used in cannonballs. I'm sure it is from a yankee-made one because no Confederate-made Bormann fuzes had a star marking -- which in this case denotes the specific Arsenal which manufactured that fuze. It is believed to be the Frankford Arsenal, in Pennsylvania.

By the way, Parsonwalker, welcome to TreasureNet's What-Is-It forum, the best place on the internet for getting accurate identification (and accurate time-dating) of unknown objects. I remember you from another civil war relic-hunting forum.

And thanks for the welcome CBGuy!

 

[yelnif]

Hello parsonwalker, and a big YAH HOOOOO! you lucky dog - you are on a battlefield- how does it feel? congrats!!! and welcome to the forum.

HH, yelnif

Thanks Hut! I appreciate it, and really enjoy seeing what you uncover. Cannonball guy - my first thought was some kind of fuse part, but I had never seen anything like that, especially without any threads. An unexploded Bormann was found on this farm 30 years ago and lots of frags over the years. Thank you SO much - very cool to have such specific info!! Long live T-net!

 

[parsonwalker]

Hello parsonwalker, and a big YAH HOOOOO! you lucky dog - you are on a battlefield- how does it feel? congrats!!! and welcome to the forum.

HH, yelnif

It's pretty sweet. This place has been hunted hard over the years, but the trenches and rifle pits are secluded and well clear of farming or development, so they are in pristine condition. Even finding only a few relics, to walk in those earthworks is pretty humbling.

 

[mical66]

It's pretty sweet. This place has been hunted hard over the years, but the trenches and rifle pits are secluded and well clear of farming or development, so they are in pristine condition. Even finding only a few relics, to walk in those earthworks is pretty humbling.

very well said, where as i would love to find a area to find some arties , it gives me more respect to think on what you said about CW battle fields, humbling indeed to think that what we find today very well had something to do with causing the last moments of some ones lives .

also welcome to T Net.

 

[yelnif]

It's pretty sweet. This place has been hunted hard over the years, but the trenches and rifle pits are secluded and well clear of farming or development, so they are in pristine condition. Even finding only a few relics, to walk in those earthworks is pretty humbling.

As it should be- respectfully.

Also congrats to CBG on another iron clad ID, you know your stuff.

HH, yelnif