Object Identification help...

Gentlemen/Ladies (Keith, Kevin, Tom, all others...),

Deus uncovered this last fall up on some property of the family's. Old historic home, 1725. Troops burned down an old barn on the property, and the immediate area is full of odds and ends. Started using the Deus on this property after hitting it with two Etracs and the place came alive, although we were only looking for old coins with the latter.

This looks to me to be an old chunk of shaped lead. Was just over a foot down, but very decisive signal. Very dense and heavy, about 2lbs. Could it be a ballast of some sort, or a block of lead that was used to produce rounds/bullets from? Been used as a paper weight here in the house since unearthed never really knowing what it could be.

Sincerely appreciate the comments and thoughts. Wife is very interested, as she found it with her Deus with small coil.

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Randy,
Richmond, VA

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2013 11:43PM by jrk.

Hope the pic worked this time. Thanks for the pic tip Keith.

Looks like a hunk of plumbers lead for leading cast iron pipe joints.
Edit; on second thought, it's smaller that plumbers lead.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2013 12:37AM by ozzie.

Thanks Ozzie!

Was it covered in a white lead oxide (some call patina) before washing it?? If it was very old at all, it should have been covered, to at least some degree, with a white substance (lead oxide, I assume). If it came out of the ground looking like it looks in the pic (color wise), then it is likely not tool old. It looks as if someone tried to cut hunks off of it, perhaps so that it would fit into a small melting pot of some kind. I know that ALL Civil War era bullets don't come out of the ground completely white. I even dug some the other day that were not as white as some others I have dug. I guess that I could have saved all those words and just plainly said..."I don't know what it is" but saying "I don't know" is so difficult to say sometimes. Maybe others will chime in an know more.

Thanks Kevin. Mostly white when pulled.

Randy

Looks like plumbers lead ingot to me as well. Some came in say 6 pieces attached with smaller weight you cut what you wanted. That stuff can be pretty old and white depending on the mineralization.

Dew

Looks like a Deus dug paper weight...As bullets were smelted in the field perhaps thats what it was used for ...in any case a piece of history perhaps right on your desk....and we never know what will come out of the ground in the next dig...

Lead for what use?

LowBoy

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almost looks like a blade sharpening tool of some sort but i'm sure thats not it, cool what ever it is.