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Re: Unknown lead object
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"Branstner, Mark C" <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:00:45 +0000
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Pat,

"Context" is a surface find from an agricultural field.  Parenthetically,
about 0.5 mile from Ft. Russell, a War of 1812 site down near East St.
Louis.

It sort of reminded of some salt-glazed stoneware stoppers that I have
seen elsewhere.

Mark
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Mark C. Branstner, RPA
Historical Archaeologist

Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Prairie Research Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
23 East Stadium Drive
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: 217.244.0892
Fax: 217.244.7458
Cell: 217.549.6990
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On 3/7/13 11:55 AM, "Patrick Martin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Looks to me more like something to plug a hole in a heavy fabric or
>leather
>item, maybe holding liquid...... push in the pointed end until the fabric
>slips into the groove around the object..... but then again??????
>CONTEXT????
>PEMartin
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Branstner, Mark C
><[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Please find attached a photo of an unknown lead object, found in
>>southern
>> Illinois.  About 3/4 inch in diameter x 7/8 inch long. Certainly looks
>>like
>> munitions, and may have some rifling traces around base, but seems
>>pretty
>> unstable in terms of overall shape:
>>
>>
>> 
>>http://s896.beta.photobucket.com/user/markbranst/library/UNKNOWN%20LEAD%2
>>0OBJECT
>>
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________
>>
>>
>> Mark C. Branstner, RPA
>>
>> Historical Archaeologist
>>
>>
>> Illinois State Archaeological Survey
>>
>> Prairie Research Institute
>>
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>
>> 209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC-571
>>
>> 23 East Stadium Drive
>>
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>>
>>
>> Phone: 217.244.0892
>>
>> Fax: 217.244.7458
>>
>> Cell: 217.549.6990
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> "Mongo only pawn in game of life."  Mongo.
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
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>*Professor of Archaeology and Chair
>President, The International Committee for the Conservation of the
>Industrial Heritage
>*
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>*Houghton, MI  USA  49931*
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