Help identifying civil war finds

dohcsvt

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I was at my favorite CW spot and popped a few bullets, a nice button and the following items.
There is a flat chunk of lead too heavy to be bullet... were any artillery shells made of lead and This is a piece of one?

There is a hollow rod with a split tip, I have zero ideas about it.

A large piece of non ferrous metal found very shallow... maybe modern?

Any input is appreciated

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Although your big chuck of flat lead honestly doesn't look like the piece I found, their were artillery shells that had lead sabot (lead wrapped around the shell to expand and grip the rifling of the artillery piece when fired). When the shell explodes the lead sabot fragments. The piece I found was about the size of a table coaster and was slightly curved and still showed some of the rifling. Your piece could be something similar, or it could be a chunk of camp lead used to mold bullets. Or it could be a more modern chunk of lead from something else.
 
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