Can any one give me some idea as to what this is? I have recently dug it up from the garden. I realise the shel is missing, but can anyone tell me what it was used in? ie anti aircraft etc?? Any help would be greatly appreciated
That is an entire shell. With no way of anonymous strangers on the internet identifying for certain if it's inert, practice etc., the only honest suggestion for found ordnance is to get in touch with the police, who have the contacts for safe investigation & disposal. Nobody gets in trouble for reporting things, and people are still killed by stuff they dug up & assumed harmless. Sorry that's not the answer you might have hoped for, but it's the only one we can really give. WW2Talk: Found Ordnance - The serious bit.
Good reminder Adam....worthwhile emphasising the danger to life from such wartime relics, shells, grenades and the like. They are usually in a highly dangerous condition and can still cause death or injury if interfered with and should be left alone for bomb disposal expertise to deal with. Saw one as that which had be unearthed and laid very close the the New Zealand Memorial at Longueval on the Somme and would be from the Great War. I have also seen collections by the road side in Belgium after Great War munitions have been recovered from ploughing the fields, awaiting collection by the bomb disposal authorities. Such collections unearthed seem to be common in the Ypres Salient and can be seen at the side of roads awaiting authorised disposal. Wartime relics found on continental battlefields are not exclusive,such ordnance can catch out the unwary in the UK. Reminds me of the wartime warnings to schoolchildren regarding the same precautions especially when the Luftwaffe dropped the anti personal butterfly bombs which caused a number of casualties to civilians and military personnel on airfields. There was a potential serious incident in Lincolnshire when a clutch of WW2 mustard bombs were found in a previous military area associated with the former RAF Woodhall Spa. The people involved were found guilty in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Act and the area was decontaminated. Case report as below. Woodhall Spa mustard gas defendant admits gun charges.
Reminder that "get in touch" means call. Do not transport a potentially live shell to the police or anywhere at all in fact.
So with that important stuff mentioned (and no censoriousness - it's always about 'seriously, watch out' rather than slagging anyone off), what do people think it is? 25pdr-ish? Solid-looking. Think AA stuff usually has a nose/base fuse?
Measuring it would be useful ? Looks fired from the driving band - and markings on that ? And looks solid shot with a tracer element from the construction of the base
The OP hasn't said where he's located. If in the UK, leave it out front for the travelling folk who will soon have it away for the driving band. A distinct possibility of two birds with one stone.
A shell on a table and a glimpse of Chrismas decorations......not a good combination.Remove carefully and place back in garden.Call police. I live on south coast and Bomb Disposal Squad are frequent visitors all year round attending to deal with things like this, uncovered by storms etc.
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I think that the condition of the driving band shows that it hasn't been fired. Take no chances, call the police.
I think that Mazolla chucked it in the sea. Explosion resulting in damage to fishing vessel Galwad-Y-Mor
