What's this thing

[Mintberrycrunch]

Found this yesterday I was detecting in the woods in the middle of no where. While I was out of town to kill some time horseshoe and harmonica were my only other find other than a pile of bullets and shotgun shells any thoughts. Looks very old to me

 

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[Mintberrycrunch]

I should have added it hollow all the way through with the little hole on the one end. It's made of lead

 

[Breezie]

Are you sure it's lead? It look like part of a clay pipe stem.

Interesting find
Breezie

 

[Mintberrycrunch]

Are you sure it's lead? It look like part of a clay pipe stem.

Interesting find
Breezie

I'm almost certain its lead came in 79/80 on the atp. It does look like part of a pipe stem must have been in the ground for a while to turn so white.

 

[Subterranean]

Maybe the tip of a musket ramrod? That high VDI makes me tend to think it is not lead, but some other alloy. Sub