Six More Civil War Artillery Shells!

[aquachigger]

These finds are from my last few hunts. I found the three Schenkls today and the three Reads before that. The Reads are Confederate and the Schenkls Yankee. I think I am up to 15 shells so far this season. I also found a bunch of bullets and some other tidbits.




Here are some Civil war cartridges found at a battle site in the water. The big one is a Spencer carbine and the others go to a Smith and Wesson pistol (I think). They are both the long and short varieties. I don't often find whole cartridges in the water, and am very pleased to have found these.



Close up of some musket percussion caps...



Here is a huge axe I found today. I haven't had time to research it yet, so if anyone has a clue to its age or use, I'd appreciate the heads up. The bullet is for scale.



Thanks for checking out my post. Hope to see you out there!

 

[Valley Ranger]

Nice! I hope to get in the water several times in July.

 

[Gunrunner61]

Man! love those Arty shells, The axe is awesome too, We don't see many complete cartridges around here cool finds for sure.....HH

 

[FriscoT06]

That is awesome! Again!! Banner.

 

[JmCraz8]

Awesome finds!!!