any ideas what this might be ??

[tiggar]

I found numerous brass looking pieces like this - I haven't been
keeping them until I realized that I was finding a lot of them.
Does anyone have any ideas what they might be ??

 

[skalleewag]

ww 11 cartridge housing?

 

[TORRERO]

Maybe some kind of ordanance fragment, as in .......
Bomb blew up and threw these fragments everywhere, so I'm getting these everywhere...
I've dug brass stuff like that....

 

[PettyOfficer]

It's British but there was an old WWI rifle grenade that could point toward what you found.

http://www.inert-ord.net/rod02h/no3/index.html

As far as bombs they didn't get that evolved with frag notches. They mostly left it at rough/jagged moulding within the bomb casing, filling it with HE. They would have only used small stuff on the beach but they did do a lot of training on beaches. Where I live they had quite a problem with U-boats. We had SBD's that used to patrol and I remember an old history teacher back in grade school that had served in one of the watch towers that dotted our coast. She told me that many a poor whale meant an untimely demise.