I am still alive!

[MuckyBottles]

I am at 80 % and I did a quick hunt today 250 yard from a major revolutionary war battlefield..found some really cool stuff (poss. Rev. Canister shot, colonial era coin..etc)
Will post when I get done with this mothers day stuff..

 

[MT_Joe]

Good deal. Alive beats the alternative!

 

[ecoast]

let's see the coin, neighbor!

 

[MuckyBottles]

Its mighty cooked but I do see a faint design..or at least I think I do...



These are the things that have me stumped...

 

[Hot zone]

Looks like live cannon balls! Don't drop...or bust apart cluster with hammer if u want to go on living!

 

[MuckyBottles]

Looks like live cannon balls! Don't drop...or bust apart cluster with hammer if u want to go on living!

Nearly 300 years old...powder is probably a little wet lol

 

[Hot zone]

Black powder is mixed when it's wet...

 

[MuckyBottles]

Black powder is mixed when it's wet...

And they don't appear to be iron

 

[Hot zone]

Ok, but a bomb squad recently blew up a civil war cannon ball! People have been killed with PVC pipe bombs... It don't have to be iron... Clay grenades were even used!

 

[MuckyBottles]

Ok, but a bomb squad recently blew up a civil war cannon ball! People have been killed with PVC pipe bombs... It don't have to be iron... Clay grenades were even used!

lol, they were literally yards away from a revolutionary battle site dated in 1779...and shiny as tinfoil..I have handled many type of live ordinance in my life, they aren't live if they even are ordinance.

 

[Hot zone]

Ok, the round spot looked like the hole for powder and fuse or primer... You proposed it was canister shot! And u being only 80% I thought perhaps you may have missed something... I have handled a lot of ordinance as well, but am not old enough to have handled black powder in more than my muzzle loaders and black powder cartridge guns...nice find!

 

[geo4472]

just found this post was thinking you may have a pinetree shilling with the shape of the design you can make out