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william holmes
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cannon ball fuse

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hello all iv been beach detecting recently finding the usual stuff 50 cals, shrapnel ,cannon balls Armstrong shells ,smoke shells ,and other interesting military stuff but the other day found this mint condition cannon ball fuse which I am very impressed with. also I have found enough pieces of shrapnel to construct a cross section 13 pounder AA shell
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Post by WhiteHunter »

Nice one mate, I've never seen a cannon ball fuse before, you really do have a great collection 8->

Loved that story Burgman [:)
If you don't go out and look your never find it ::g
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Hi William, I didn't realise that cannon balls had fuses! :-O

An interesting story burgman; I hear tell that there are millions of English and German land mines left in North Africa :( Do you suppose we could help them to uncover them all? ;)
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Christoph1945 wrote:Hi William, I didn't realise that cannon balls had fuses! :-O

An interesting story burgman; I hear tell that there are millions of English and German land mines left in North Africa :( Do you suppose we could help them to uncover them all? ;)
well not all cannon balls had fuses some contained lead ball and had a boxer time fuse on them but this particular one was designed to go through the target then the fuse would burn out then the cannon ball would explode
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This military ordnance is real nasty stuff; isn't it? I bet it could kill you when it was new! :-O
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Cygnus32 wrote:Best left allone :-/

Cheers Chris

some would say so
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Cygnus32 wrote:Best left allone :-/

Cheers Chris
It ain't so bad if you know what you're digging and are sensible. Golden rule is, if you can't be 100% positive it's inert/safe, leave it alone. I have often said that no relic is worth a finger, hand, arm, foot, leg or life.
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Lots of videos of WW2 relics being recovered on my channel! Go view it!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZxrI- ... SoD8F8kebg"
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RRPG wrote:
Cygnus32 wrote:Best left allone :-/

Cheers Chris
It ain't so bad if you know what you're digging and are sensible. Golden rule is, if you can't be 100% positive it's inert/safe, leave it alone. I have often said that no relic is worth a finger, hand, arm, foot, leg or life.

that's completely right
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Hi William, I have just read about an American who took home a 9" 7.5lb Civil War cannon ball and started working on it with some sort of electric hand-tool. The darn thing blew up and killed him! :(

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a good thing none of mine are live then
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