Another Intact James Artillery Shell and More....

[garren]

We just got back from a 3 day trip to our favorite battlefield site. This is the same farm where I found a James shell in 2016. The circumstances were almost identical with the only exception being that this was one hay field over. I can't believe that I found one complete James shell in my lifetime but finding two is crazy! This shell was about 14" deep and I think it's in better condition than my first one. I was prepared this time. When I saw a small section of the "birdcage" in the bottom of the hole I knew what was about to come up and we got it on video. Our Video skills need work but at least we captured the moment.

Other CW items from this trip include some canister shot, a Sharps and an Enfield bullet, sabot, a big chunk of a James fragment and my first Hotchkiss fuse.
Some non-CW items were wheats and a WWI collar disc for the 153rd Ark Infantry.

...and now it's time to start that month long tedious task of restoring the shell.

 

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[vpnavy]

WOW WOW WOW Garren!. Thanks for sharing...

 

[DetectorMoe]

That is pretty sweet, Nice digs!, The video on youtube, if so whats the channel?

 

[garren]

That is pretty sweet, Nice digs!, The video on youtube, if so whats the channel?

Thanks Tentis. I haven't uploaded the footage yet but the channel is Detecting4life. It may take me a few days... I'm a little slow at editing.

 

[bologna321]

Super cool shell

 

[pepperj]

Congrats on the recovery of the shell.

 

[islamoradamark]

hell of a find good going

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Outstanding!

 

[relic nut]

Congratulations on the shell! Should display nice.

 

[Palmetto Pony]

Congrats! Since you've got one under your belt you should be good to go restoring this one! Can't wait to see how it looks afterwards, your last one turned out great.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

I'm not a relic hunter, but that artillery shell is cool. Congrats.

 

[Relicific]

Amazing find
Congrats

 

[Brendan75]

Wow what a nice find

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Very cool, I’m likin’ that James

 

[garren]

After only 6 days in electrolysis this shell is already looking way better than the last one....so much detail left in this one!

 

[hucklburry]

I had to google image what they looked like cleaned up, very cool stuff, congrats on the nice finds!

 

[Digg Mo]

That's awesome Dude!!
The clean up is looking great. I personally think that finding the shell and having a video of digging it is definitely a BANNER find.

 

[Tnmountains]

It does not get much better than a day digging a shell like that. Got to be more waiting for you. Congratulations I remember when you dug the last one.

 

[garren]

Thank you guys for all of the comments...I'm super excited to see this one cleaned up. It's in remarkable condition.

I almost forgot that we had video of the recovery....

https://youtu.be/SxSILAm_-qE?t=18m44s

 

[Devonrex]

Outstanding!!!