BANG,...............er, uh PING!..................
wow. reminds me of Ahab’s arrow.
“How did they miss [this 7 inch shell for] the last 16 decades?”
The exact same way they missed a 200 foot balloon.
A piece of our racist history. Quick, get Biden over to see it for a photo-op soon! :)
When I was stationed at Ft. Riley, KS after college in the early '90s, a friend of mine was the commander of 74th EOD Detachment. He was telling me about an old 19th century artillery shell that somebody had found in their attic in Junction City, KS, just outside of post that they had been called to clear. He estimated it was from the 1870s.
It’s illegal to dig for relics there.
Up to 10% of those were duds.
Do the math. They are constantly digging up unexploded ordinance over there.
They had a forest fire one time, and the people were scared half to death from the explosions of that stuff getting cooked off.
it might be worth your time to search any local battlefields near you.
Idiot, it is illegal to use metal detectors or keep artifacts from National Battlefields.
“This is a national park, it’s been around forever, and they still just now found this shell? How did they miss it in the last 16 decades? I just find that hard to believe.”
Seriously? How semi retarded do you have to be to utter that?
Nope. Not even close. I think the combined KIA total was under 10,000.
Finally, a bombshell report.
This is just a dumb question. The ground at Gettysburg is full of iron -- minis, balls, shot, and lots of musket parts.
My father used to dig around there when he was a teenager. He said one of the most interesting things he found were muskets with the barrels stuffed with five or six charges and balls. Apparently, during the heat of the battle, soldiers would load and fire so quickly that with the din and smoke, they couldn't tell if the thing went off or not. They just kept loading it until they finally figured out that the barrel was full, then threw the gun down, probably to head to the rear.
Digging has been banned there for years. There's no way they could excavate the entire battlefield.
Danger UXB
I vaguely remember reading about some human remains being found during a road widening project there years ago.
“Over 50,000 Americans died at Gettysburg, making it the bloodiest battle of the bloodiest war in our nation’s history”.
WRONG! There were around 50,000 casualties......dead and wounded.
“Over 50,000 Americans died at Gettysburg...”
I don’t think so. That is most likely the number of killed, wounded, and missing/captured.
Shells from the Civil War are quite frequently found in gardens, forests, and rivers in the South.
It may have been embedded in a hillside, and with 16 decades of erosion if finally came to surface? Cole Hill in Plymouth was used as burying ground in the early days of the colony, but after about 100 years of rains, bodies and bones starting sliding down the hill.
It was buried, you ninny!
Hey! I have an IDEA!!! Why don't you go over to France, take your little shovel, and start digging in some of the old WWI battlefields. The ones that are fenced off. I'm sure you'll find all sorts of fun things!
Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland has many square miles of land with unknown amounts of unexploded ordnance. It’s an Army base where they develop and test all sorts of stuff. I live nearby and the house shakes and rattles often when they blow stuff up.
If an explosive starts a grass fire, no matter the size, if a water cannon can’t reach it, the do air drops. No one but no one walks there.
How many so far have let you know that 50K KIA for Gettysburg wasn't correct? ;^)