Bullet - is it CW?

[Kent in AL]

Hi all,

Got off work early today and after lunch with the wife, went detecting. Found this lead ball and I'm assuming it's a bullet? Has a very slight flat spot. Sorry for the poor scan, my wife is gone with her camera. I don't have calipers but eyeballing with a ruler shows ~5/8ths which is .625. The only thing close to that caliber I saw on the internet was a that a Le Mat pistol in addition to its nine .42 caliber bullets had a .63 caliber shotgun charge. Any ideas?

Also in the same pic is a greenish watzit and a couple of shotgun brass. I thought the UMC New Club was kinda neat.

Thanks for looking,

Kent

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hi, it looks like you got yourself a nice .58 cal. musketball. civil war era for sure. congrats, and hh!

 

[Kent in AL]

Thanks. I forgot to add that at this homesite I found this cast I button about two months ago. I don't think I posted it on this forum. This was my first CW relic ever. I guess this musketball makes two. Well, from that era at least.

Kent

 

[GRAY GHOST]

wow, kent, nice button! hit that area hard! that's a really nice looking button. we don't see too many coming out the ground looking like that. congrats, and thanks. hh!

 

[foreverRich]

You are off to a great start!! Keep hitting it. There are certainly more where they came from.