HomeGuardDan
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Well I jumped inland for a day yesterday and met up with a new fella to check out a spot that I felt confident would produce some artillery...unfortunately...I was so wrong. I ended up digging a civil war canteen spout at that site and that was it, the site was almost void of all relics. At least the guy I was hunting with now had a land spot to go back and check as he ended up getting permission to the site for a variety of reasons (relic hunting and animal hunting).
With half a day left, we decided to head a few miles down the road to another site the two of us have both thought of checking, but neither had explored. I was hoping for more camp related items here, though I know there was a skirmish with some artillery that occurred in the area. It started off almost on script with a fired .69 ball (can't tell if it is case shot or musket ball) and then a beautiful dropped merrill carbine bullet. I thought "hmmm, ok should be a little bit here." As we began to work the site, eventually we got into a bunch of misc. iron when finally, almost towards the end of the trip I had a mixed deep tone. Reading shell one way and flat iron the next, I dug it anyways. A short time later I was holding a nice Schenkl artillery shell, still with the ring on the rear (most of it) to hold the paper mache sabot in place. Upon checking the hole, there was a barrel band also in the vicinity, absolutely the cause of the mixed tone A short time later, a nice 10lb parrott surfaced, also deep, but more noticeable. A little while afterwards, and after my buddy had a scare (dug two that should have been shells, that ended up being junk) I recovered parrott #2 (shell #3) laying virtually on top of the rocks (still has vegetation growing on it). The Schenkl is a nice CS variety with the studs on the ends to hold a wooden sabot on the shell (rather than a paper that US used) Finding any artillery is difficult these days, three in a day is one to remember.
Not a bad day out and I am sure more are in the future.
HH
Dan
With half a day left, we decided to head a few miles down the road to another site the two of us have both thought of checking, but neither had explored. I was hoping for more camp related items here, though I know there was a skirmish with some artillery that occurred in the area. It started off almost on script with a fired .69 ball (can't tell if it is case shot or musket ball) and then a beautiful dropped merrill carbine bullet. I thought "hmmm, ok should be a little bit here." As we began to work the site, eventually we got into a bunch of misc. iron when finally, almost towards the end of the trip I had a mixed deep tone. Reading shell one way and flat iron the next, I dug it anyways. A short time later I was holding a nice Schenkl artillery shell, still with the ring on the rear (most of it) to hold the paper mache sabot in place. Upon checking the hole, there was a barrel band also in the vicinity, absolutely the cause of the mixed tone A short time later, a nice 10lb parrott surfaced, also deep, but more noticeable. A little while afterwards, and after my buddy had a scare (dug two that should have been shells, that ended up being junk) I recovered parrott #2 (shell #3) laying virtually on top of the rocks (still has vegetation growing on it). The Schenkl is a nice CS variety with the studs on the ends to hold a wooden sabot on the shell (rather than a paper that US used) Finding any artillery is difficult these days, three in a day is one to remember.
Not a bad day out and I am sure more are in the future.
HH
Dan
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