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.

No way for them to know this. They could have been from target practice two months before or from a hunt two years later. This is speculation at best.

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.

It's a sign that society has come full circle

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.

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 .

Speculative

Wouldn’t there be thousands of those? If that’s where the battle was you would think there would be all sorts of things in that area

Wow! I can't believe they were there all this time!

They could just be from a hunter of the times too.I find musket balls in Virginia all the time.They are pretty common.

The shot was heard at Lexington not Concord, open a history book sometimes people.

I found a bunch of these in my backyard. Still sitting in a bucket.

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

And the reason for the American Revolution was because they did not want to live as subjects to a king, they wanted to be free.

Plot twist: He made the musket balls at home 😭😭 lol

Come on !!! everyone had to hunt for meat to eat every day or have someone else do it for them. The power of speculation!!

Those musket balls should’ve been found by the ppl that owned that property before the state took it by force for parks and bike paths.

My ancestor fought alongside Connor Kenway at this battle. Rip grandpa

The red coats are coming, the red coats are coming. The red coats are running, the red coats are running.

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!!

Dropped not fired sheesh 😂

Yeah he was the first person to find musket balls because we only hunted with bows during that time

i put those perfectly round musket balls there 30 years ago to get you guys good in 2024

Not sure how they’ve proven that they’re from that era, but it’s still interesting even if they weren’t from that specific event

Actually they need to do metal forensic. There have been re-enactments every year there for decades.

Wait. They used to make ammunition from Muskrat Balls?

If you exercise a lot and don’t take a shower you can get musket balls

🤦‍♀️ 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.

Those are dropped rounds not fired lol

Fired musket balls are misshaped. Those were dropped. They could have been dropped by kids playing years before or after that battle.

"On Saturday July 13" ...oof.

Totally awesome 💯❤

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 🙄

Shameful forgery

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

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

Good job!!

Just like the skynyrd tape from the civil war 😂😂😂

Those were British soldiers musket balls

I found big foots balls in my back yard the other day ☝️js

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.

That's quite a claim.

Definitely not fired musket balls. Those are dropped. Still good story.

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!

Wow this is cool

You can find them with a good metal detector I have a lot of them the white ones have been fired by generals I have those too

Owen Willison wow

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 🧐

Anything to distract us from the real news

Speaking of the shot that was hurt around the world thank God Donald Trump is safe and okay

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.

Hand it over to Maura Healy. You won’t be able to own a slingshot by the time her and the shadow council are done assaulting the 2nd amendment.

Any one of them😂😂😂😂 you can't prove it😂😂😂😂

and we have people running around with palestinian flags in our nations capital.

💯💪

I'm a Revolutionary War buff

I'm homosexual and this seems amazing to me 😊 Like if your gay too😊

The British are coming the British are coming

Awesome

Yeah right 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Make a wish 🎉

Nah man 😂😂😂

Fake history

It actually started in Westminster Vermont

down with fascist CBS up with democracy and BIDEN

DOUBTFUL