Those musket balls were not fired,they were dropped. Fired musket balls are not symmetrical,because of impact with something. I find them in both conditions all the time metal detecting.
If it didn't impact something though, you shouldn't see a ton of deformation, no? All you'd have is maybe a bit of deformation from the initial pressure blast, but no major damage
Its a cool find given the context of where it was found but yes. At the same time, nobody knows who even fired "the shot heard around the world". Most likely fell out of some militiaman's coat pocket.
WOW! People can find musket balls, fired over 200 years ago, in Massachusetts, BUT you can't find any justice in that corrupt place. A musket ball...yes. Justice...No.
Yes, Massachusetts would be rabidly Pro-British today as the state hates everything the Lexington & Concord Militia defended. Today they would not have been allowed to own muskets and shotguns.
lead balls never oxidize and because they are heavy they will eventually sink into the wet ground . as long as they never dug up the lawn or pave, it can stay fine for centuries , They look like 30 cal in the hands of the crew , the British used 50 or 70 cal brown Bess rifles . They look too round to have been fired and hit anything much less the ground .
Wrong! The "shot heard 'round the world" was in LEXINGTON, not Concord. It was in Lexington that the first shot was fired on 19 Apr 1775, but it is unknown from which side it was fired, Lexington Militia or British Army.
This should be the first pinned comment ! I understand this is no longer taught in school to kids as it was in 5th grade for most of American history !!! Hard to fight for second amendment rights when you do not know the war was fought with privately owned guns !
the real orgin story of the first shots fired was when a young man named Martin Smith was in England visiting the King and at dinner uttered these words "Hawk Tuah"..the rest is history
My father lived in Ticonderoga New york in the 1930s, location of numerous famous revolutionary battles. They would pick musket balls up off the ground at Fort Ticonderoga and sell them to the tourists! It was The Depression you had to be enterprising if you wanted to eat!!
🤦♀️ People used muskets and musket balls for hundreds of years, just because you found them in the area of a famous battle doesn't mean they were specifically from the battle. They could be from litterally any time from the 16th-19th century. The bullets used by hunters for hundreds of years will make up the majority of the bullets in the ground not necessarily the bullets from a brief moment in 1775.
It’s actually in the normal condition you find lead bullets that have been in the ground that long they are White because of oxidization which protects them I also metal detect civil war battle sites and the bullets look in the same condition as the ones I usually find
There's no way those musket balls were fired if they're perfectly symmetrical, even when a musket ball is fired and it hits nothing it's still has some sort of distortion to the ball whether from the pressure from the gases or being sent out the barrelAnd if that must get all we're fired it would likely be a pancake of sore from whatever it impacted lead is very soft 🙄
I can’t believe they found a musket ball from an armed insurrection shot that was heard around the world centuries ago. It’s a reminder of where we would’ve been without those brave militias
Just how do you know that they were used/carried on/about 4/19/1775? I recall my grade school (southeast MA) history teacher telling us that the red coats were marching towards the Lexington/Concord area to "seize weapons" in order to decrease the chance of rebellion. The locals would have none of it.
If I remember correctly. The British were attempting to capture canons in Concord. Lexington was on the way, and the colonials tried some resistance but were broken up shortly after the first shots. It was in Concord that the British were stopped. The most damage was colonials taking shots at the British as they retreated back to Boston.
Well, at the time there were rifles and muskets. Most Americans had rifles and depending on location there were different popular calibers. The British were using big bore rifle less muskets or smooth bores. I was once a black powder shooter and had pistols in 44 caliber and 54 caliber rifles. I shot ball and mini ball in all of them. If I went behind my property I would be able to locate a lot of lead balls. My neighbor was a member of the mountain men organization and had a range back there. I have balls I cast in 1970 that are crusty and aged in a drawer. Maybe they were from the shot heard around the world? I'm willing to sell them to any collectors!
So what your saying is, musket balls weren’t used prior to this battle in 1775?😂 probably came from somebody hunting 10 years prior or 10 years after. 😂 I found a horse shoe in Revere MA. It obviously came from Paul Revere’s horse. 😅the only logical explanation 🧐
Sounds good, but there's no way to determine whether those musket balls were fired on April 19, 1775 let alone whether or not they were fired by colonial military. Good spin, though.
