That is pretty cool! I would imagine the stock rotted away but where is the barrel?

The stories it could tell...
Cool!

Sure would be cool if that could tell it's story!

Super Neat
Barrel might have been made of different steel?

My pap liked to use a metal detector! He would let me catch bluegills out Dunlap while he poked around with the detector.
Really cool

That's is a once in a life time find for most people running a detector. Way cool.. how did you happen on to the location? If you don't mind saying.

Mac

"Never Forget Which Way Is Up!"

Dunlap lake.... There's a place I haven't heard mentioned in a looooooooong time.

We still fish there quite often!

Possibly Scott but there are other parts of the gun that one should still need able to locate if they'rethere. Steel but plate, trigger guard, brass furniture ect.

Bet that barrel was iron and not steel. It's a flintlock, not a caplock. Pre-civil war the barrels were wrought iron.
Frizzen, hammer, springs and tumbler would have been the only thing steel in the gun

I found it wading the edges of the mill pond above the dams in town here. I know there is some cool stuff in there, but did not dream that would come out of there. The rest of it was not there. I imagine that the butt plate and barrel were iron and rusted away.

cool fine,

Awesome.

That is a very cool find. Any chance we could get a picture of the other side? And a measurement?

so cool

Yep! That's what I meant

Hardened Steel

That's a great find.

I've read that locks were sometimes carried by themselves in the old days not as rifle parts, but as fire starters.

Nice find