Possible German heavy calibre round?

[Neil Turner]

DSC02782_1000.JPGDSC02783_1000.JPGI would be interested to hear if anyone can identify this item. It is made of lead and was found on a beach near the low water line. The area was very heavily defended by the German army during the war with a number of strong-points around the bay. Thanks for your help, Neil

[TonyE]

Neil - It is difficult to be precise, but your bullet looks like a mid nineteenth century projectile for a muzzle loading weapon. It seems to be about .6 inch calibre and has a hollow base similar to a Minie design. As I can see no rifling marks on the bullet it has presumably been fired from a smoothbore gun. Also the bullet looks too short to be from a British Pattern 53 .577 inch rifled musket or similar. Perhaps from one of the navy's smooth bore muskets?

Whichever, I think we can safely say that it is much earler than German from WW2.

Regards
TonyE

[kz11gr]

DSC02782_1000.JPGDSC02783_1000.JPGI would be interested to hear if anyone can identify this item. It is made of lead and was found on a beach near the low water line. The area was very heavily defended by the German army during the war with a number of strong-points around the bay. Thanks for your help, Neil

Hi

Musquet bullet !





or sub caliber training round

[Neil Turner]

Thanks for this information which is entirely plausible. Many of the German defences are actually built on top of substantial British defences and I have found a couple of musket balls in the same area (roughly mid-way between two forts) Thanks Neil