Need help identifying round I found

[tedblue]

I found this round in my pasture near Melrose Florida. Whats your opinion? Old or this century? Any help is appreciated.

 

[chellers]

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[capt13th]

I found this round in my pasture near Melrose Florida. Whats your opinion? Old or this century? Any help is appreciated.

3 inch ordinance for a rifled cannon. it has beautifully preserved rifling grooves in it.

considering where melrose, fl is located, there is a very good chance that this is civil war era. you are situated between 2 battles. you had fighting on the st. john's river near palatka and you had the battle of gainsville. you also had raids all up and down what is today hwy 301. waldo, starke, baldwin. not sure if there was any fighting in melrose though.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

What you have found is an armor piercing round from the late 19th or 20th Century. The exact size around the copper driving band will give the bore diameter of the artillery piece it was fired from. It could be Spanish American War, WW1, or WW2 era. What you want to look for is records of military camps and training grounds in the area. Begin with the Spanish American War records and work your way up through Florida history.

J.

 

[marinegrunt]

3 inch ordinance for a rifled cannon. it has beautifully preserved rifling grooves in it.

considering where melrose, fl is located, there is a very good chance that this is civil war era. you are situated between 2 battles. you had fighting on the st. john's river near palatka and you had the battle of gainsville. you also had raids all up and down what is today hwy 301. waldo, starke, baldwin. not sure if there was any fighting in melrose though.

The grooves are well preserved, which kinda makes me wonder if it is Civil War era. It sort of looks like a Butler projectile. I'm not an expert, but I believe that most Civil War era rifled projectiles used a sabot to grip the rifling; this sort of looks like the crimping you would expect to see on a bullet that was in a metal cartridge as opposed to rifling from a fired round. It's cool either way; let us know what you find out about it.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Modern era artillery projectile