Civil War artillery shell

[Riggleman]

This find is from Sundays hunt.

Traveled to a pounded Union camp, after only finding one 3 ring bullet on the camp site I decided to try my luck in the brier thicket nearby and good thing I did. After digging what i thought was a shell fragment I began searching for any large iron signals which paid off. The shell is a parrott and i suspect was fired from a Confederate gun due to activity in the area. The shell is now disarmed and as soon as i locate a replacement battery charger i will begin electrolysis. One of the pictures is the lead shot from inside the shell. Thanks for looking.

 

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[Davers]

A very nice find , I'm still hunting my first complete shell but frags will work until then .

 

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[Riggleman]

The shell is coming along great. I was able to get the inside cleaned, that was a job, i pretty well manually scrapped and chipped it out, most of the case shot was damaged when drilling and the asphaltum was like concrete. Ive attached pics of the asphaltum and shot. I managed to fix my old battery charger by replacing the corroded internal wires so the shell was run in electrolysis this evening, i wanna run a little more tomorrow and then comes the waxing. Here are some progress pics for now. Lots of pics!