Hello people.
I was out yesterday, we had a very stormy day, ice cold north wind so I had nothing better to do (haha) then to go for a short hike on the coastline.
I walked along a WW2 trench, lots of garbage in it, and I spotted this encrusted cartridge in the dirt on one of it's sides.
It's marked "GDA 9mm P&A".
What is that stuck inside it? I haven't scratched it to see if it's metal (but I'm pretty sure it is) and what kind.
At first I thought it was the remains of the verdigris-covered copper jacket bullet (the green colour struck my eye and I found it) but the shell has a striking mark on it's bottom so it should be spent, right?
Maybe it misfired and the bullet stayed inside? We had a wildfire that burnt all vegetation around the old trenches, so could this be a melted bullet?...
The green stuff looks like green paint under a magnifying glass, did they have green-tip handgun bullets in WW2?
I have found old cartridges and barb wire from that war before but I have never seen something like this.
Any ideas on what that is or maybe on the shell's age?
I was out yesterday, we had a very stormy day, ice cold north wind so I had nothing better to do (haha) then to go for a short hike on the coastline.
I walked along a WW2 trench, lots of garbage in it, and I spotted this encrusted cartridge in the dirt on one of it's sides.
It's marked "GDA 9mm P&A".
What is that stuck inside it? I haven't scratched it to see if it's metal (but I'm pretty sure it is) and what kind.
At first I thought it was the remains of the verdigris-covered copper jacket bullet (the green colour struck my eye and I found it) but the shell has a striking mark on it's bottom so it should be spent, right?
Maybe it misfired and the bullet stayed inside? We had a wildfire that burnt all vegetation around the old trenches, so could this be a melted bullet?...
The green stuff looks like green paint under a magnifying glass, did they have green-tip handgun bullets in WW2?
I have found old cartridges and barb wire from that war before but I have never seen something like this.
Any ideas on what that is or maybe on the shell's age?
