Musket balls from "Shot Heard Round the World" found in Massachusetts

Musket balls fired on April 19, 1775, were discovered in Concord by archaeologists at Minute Man National Historic Park. WBZ's Brandon Truitt reports.

[@adamholloway5605]

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.

[@72marshflower15]

What’s a good detector you can recommend? My budget is under 1k ✨✊✨

[@adamholloway5605]

@@72marshflower15 I have a Tesoro Tejon, very deep machine

[@72marshflower15]

@@adamholloway5605 thanks mang 🤙

[@enriquemireles8947]

You know these guys are always rewriting history anyway.

[@Satchel456]

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

[@THEhorihito]

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.

[@geigertec5921]

Its sensationalism, the title alone is ridiculous, like a grocery store tabloid.

[@RoachDogJR7445]

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.

[@NalaRichenbach]

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.

[@JackMcKay-jr9yu]

Tell me about it they put me away for a long time from minding my own business God bless the world Jack from Maine

[@gweedus]

wtf are you boomers yapping about? the war ended, Britain left!

[@Teeveepicksures]

😂You're in the CourtTV Cult

[@ioncefellfrommars]

It's a sign that society has come full circle

[@romad357]

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.

[@Teeveepicksures]

It's a sign someone was digging a hole, ya drama queen.

[@cewalb]

Yes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3e8ZWmsbqaJrbcsi=ASwTU3R3rg1QpYz8

[@jeffdwyer6105]

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 .

[@davidblack7184]

Lead does oxidize. Plenty of proof out there.

[@romad357]

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.

[@pm5906]

Yeah. This headline is fake news.

[@josephpadula2283]

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 !

[@blusnuby2]

@@josephpadula2283 And, this once-great nation`s symbol should be The Kentucky Flintlock Rifle---NOT some dirty-assed bird.

[@dustinalbright5012]

Speculative

[@charlesbarkely3021]

extremely

[@Teeveepicksures]

OBJECTION

[@LL-bl8hd]

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

[@dsm9785]

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

[@LIRTC91]

it was a small skirmish and probably only a few volleys fired before hand to hand combat would ensue. It's also been dug up for years

[@lemmdus2119]

Those battles were usually two or three volleys before they charged each other and fought with swords, bayonets, tomahawks, knives, etc.

[@JackMcKay-jr9yu]

I found many of them the white ones are fired by generals I have a lot of those they're not that hard to find

[@lemmdus2119]

@@JackMcKay-jr9yu 😆😆

[@hoosierdaddy8002]

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

[@franksullivan1873]

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

[@woody2875]

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

[@kennethhummel4409]

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

[@jaymac7203]

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

[@gweedus]

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

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

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!!

[@user-kk9um1tw5z]

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

[@user-kq4hf8se5b]

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

[@robertpena9293]

Dropped not fired sheesh 😂

[@4dogsgaming]

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

[@the8419]

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

[@Laurie9361]

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.

[@coolbeans7349]

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

[@BrooklynnZoo]

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

[@KelticTim]

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.

[@ge2623]

Wait. They used to make ammunition from Muskrat Balls?

[@jasminespencer3992]

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

[@Capt_kook]

Those are dropped rounds not fired lol

[@classicforreal]

"On Saturday July 13" ...oof.

[@landonleathers5936]

Totally awesome 💯❤

[@lemmdus2119]

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

[@geigertec5921]

🤦‍♀️ 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.

[@southwestndn8401]

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

[@ZacharyBurgard]

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

[@camerondawnpeterson5100]

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 🙄

[@TerrBrigha]

Good job!!

[@santefia]

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

[@rickgaston7118]

Shameful forgery

[@doaaa4542]

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

[@johnwashingtoncountyor4954]

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.

[@sailorman9403]

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.

[@robertlennihan3113]

Wow this is cool

[@LOWKEYDANGER]

Owen Willison wow

[@alexhidel3732]

Those were British soldiers musket balls

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

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!

[@Cryptocracy_Now]

That's quite a claim.

[@JackMcKay-jr9yu]

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

[@yankeetimeline]

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

[@FezCaliph]

Anything to distract us from the real news

[@jeremiah-om7zl]

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

[@StamperWendy]

I'm a Revolutionary War buff

[@eddiehaskell5578]

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 🧐

[@ChaOha-v4z]

💯💪

[@gregorydonatelli3429]

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.

[@mr.iforgot3062]

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

[@brandonmccray6070]

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

[@Dungeonbeatz]

The British are coming the British are coming

[@salvation2979]

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

[@RoachDogJR7445]

Awesome

[@robertrsmolucha4392]

Yeah right 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@n8mize]

Make a wish 🎉

[@doaaa4542]

Nah man 😂😂😂

[@bigfoot163]

DOUBTFUL

[@Al_capachino]

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.

[@Grandizer8989]

How do you find your way home in the dark? Shipwreck

[@jamesbosko5518]

Fake history

[@roxanereddy2471]

It actually started in Westminster Vermont

[@robertanthony5147]

down with fascist CBS up with democracy and BIDEN

[@eddiehaskell5578]

Joe 💩👖🤣