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Dman and I returned to the US CW site where I found the TENN PIN yesterday with rain on the way. One day last week, we hunted the site and Dman was playing with the settings on his SE about 30 minutes before we had to leave. He dug an iron canister ball. We had not dug but one of these before. I lowered the discrimination on the old 1266-X and found a few pieces too. Yesterday, we returned with the expressed mission to dig all solid signals to recover artillery pieces. The first pic shows my finds from the two trips. Notice the iron pieces that resemble sugar cubes. The first one that I dug was a puzzle to us. We thought it was just a piece from farm equipment. After Dman dug one and I found three more, we knew they were associated with the artillery relics. A local relic dealer informed us that the square and rectangular iron pieces were sometimes used as "filler" for case shot shells. Maybe Nemo can give us more information on this.
The second pic is of case shot slugs from that general area that I have found in the last 12-13 months. This whole area was remote and used to test fire the cannons during the war after personnel and Union Patrols were cleared away. The large chunk of lead is part of a Hodgkiss sabot. Dman found one also. As you may notice, there is a mashed .58cal. bullet that I forgot to remove from the jar when I poured it out for the pic.
Dman's little boot pistol was the find of the day. Thanks for looking and happy hunting from rainy Tennessee!!!
 
Just got an email back from Peter George who I asked about the cast iron cubes in the above picture. The lumps are "metal-shop scraps" used as case-shot.

Hope this helps.
Nemo
 
Quindy. I just had an interesting conversation with Pete George re Hotchkiss "pusher plates". They are iron and are located between the charge and the case shot of the projectile they have a hole in the middle. You might know this but the round disk in the lower right of your first picture might be just such a disk. Pete tells me that hunters find these disk but often don't realize what they are. I'll be sending a copy of your picture for confirmation. Let you know what I find.

Hope this is new to you. Can see them on cut crossections of Hotchkiss case shot projectiles.

Dave Poche
 
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