Shrapnel?

[Yak1366]

I only had a moment to take these photos. It's about 3-4" wide and thickness ~1/4".

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Maybe the foot off an old bathtub or a leg attachment for machinery.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Definitely not civil war artillery shell shrapnel. All civil war explosive ones were made of simple cast-iron, which under explosive pressure will shatter (with the pieces looking like broken egg-shell), not bend-and-peel like your find. Also, post-civil-war steel artillery shells tend to shred (see the photo below) rather than look like your find. It could be a piece of steel pipe that somebody did a pipe-bomb thing with.

 

[Yak1366]

Thank you for your input again TCBG. I figured it was a little thick for a cannonball fragment. With the location relevance of the find & the characteristics, I had to post.

 

[RTR]

Shrapnel has extremely sharp razor like edges.And(generally) usually a lot smaller in size

 

[RTR]

I only had a moment to take these photos. It's about 3-4" wide and thickness ~1/4".

This is what it looks like.Remains of a Chinese made rocket .Circa...Viet Nam war.One piece you can see the remains of threads.On another you might make out some of my blood.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Yak1366 wrote:
> I figured it was a little thick for a cannonball fragment.

Actually, it is too thin to be a cannonball fragment. "Field Artillery Caliber" (6-pounder/3.67-inch and 12-pounder/4.62-inch) civil war explosive cannonballs had a wall-thickness between .40-inch and .70-inch (not counting the typical dirt/rust-concretion found on excavated shell fragments).

 

[Red James Cash]

I figured it was a little thick for a cannonball fragment.

I have some cohorn mortar fragments,theyre close to an inch thick.each one weighs 1/4 to a 1/2 pound,getting hit by one would of definitely ruined your day.