Relic Wednesday!!

[zaxfire69]

I declare yesterday Relic Wednesday. I was working at the Firestation and I have been detecting a small lot next door to our station. Others have detected there, but today was my day. Here lately I have found tons of clad and old iron, from where back in the early 1900's there used to be a carriage works on the property. I will take a picture of the lot and post up soon as I go back to work..Anyway. In this little area probably no bigger than a small car I found a lot of old melted lead. Didn't think much of it then my detector hit on a solid penny tone. So I dug it and out came one of these nice 3 ring bullets..Heavy, and big caliber. I knew they were Civil War bullets just because of my location..Downtown Natchez, Mississippi. I was on one side of the lot so I decided to work that area in a straight line back to the building. The lot sits in between 2 buildings and a long time ago another building sat on top of the lot I am hunting now. Well about an hour later another solid penny signal. Dug it and low and behold another 3 ring bullet. I couldn't believe it. I was happy dancing for real.. All I can figure is that some Civil war dude was sitting in the spot making bullets, because of all the lead I found in the area where I found the intact bullet. Also dug this funny looking piece of glass or rock not sure what it is, but it is a rootbeer color and you can see through it???? Not sure if it is glass or some sort of stone?? Enjoy my pic...

[EBCIII]

Congrats on those bullets! That is a sweet find for sure. Great hunt, Beale.

[Capt.B]

Nice finds, just goes to show that no place is really hunted out.

[echostar61]

Congrats on the bullet finds , those are so Cool . That sounds like a really interesting site to hunt. Much continued success

Terri

[Yardog]

Congrats on the Bullets, Nice indeed, did You do the Happy dance?
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[akajester]

Excellent finds!

[Tn Dirt Digger]

Pretty cool digs!!!..The bullets don't appear to have any groove marks...if so they are "drops".....Was there a battle in that vacinity....CW soldiers would carry lumps of melted lead to make different things to include bullets....pretty cool finds!

[Joker]

Wow those are some great finds..! wtg

[Buster]

Real good finds on the bullets...history at it's best...Congrats...Buster........

[zaxfire69]

Well we had the Battle of Natchez. One Casualty. A union gunship was traveling the river and a group of people were at the Natchez under the hill Saloon. Which by the way is still up and running. The Gunship fired a blank round to rial the soldiers up at the Fort Rosalie on the bluff overlooking the river. A gentleman at the Saloon had a heart attack and died. The one casulty. There was a ton of activity around those days in downtown Natchez. If you do a search about Natchez under the hill you will see and read some crazy history. This town was the Las Vegas of the Mississippi river back in the old days.