Mystery copper pieces

[brie-z]

First of all, this is my first post, so bear with me if the pic didn't work (crossing my fingers) But we found these 5 pieces on 3 separate occasions, metal detecting a beach in northeast florida. The sand was dredged 3 or so years ago, and is slowly eroding away(could be from known shipwrecked areas) They are nice and heavy, and we cleaned off a bit of nice, green verdi gris off them. Maybe from a bracelet or decorative band?

 

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[chipveres]

Is there a trace of enameling in the depressions of the copper? This would bear out the bracelet theory.

Chip V.

 

[brie-z]

nope, no enamel, but i wanted to show in this pic, that 4 are the exact same size, 3 of which have the same pattern, the other two have the same lines(with one about half the size).

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I know what these are. Other members have found these on the north Treasure Coast beaches. Cappy Z. is one of them. I will look for the old posts. I believe they are some kind of shrapnel from WWII.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Here is pic of one.

 

[CRUSADER]

shrapnel was my guess too

 

[brie-z]

Very cool, guys.THANK YOU!.. that makes sense, because we found some bullets on the same beach. We heard there used to be an old coast guard target range where the dredged sand came from. I'm new to treasure hunting, and finding out what all the non-coin metal items are. I'm off to research, but what do you think this came from that blew up??

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Very cool, guys.THANK YOU!.. that makes sense, because we found some bullets on the same beach. We heard there used to be an old coast guard target range where the dredged sand came from. I'm new to treasure hunting, and finding out what all the non-coin metal items are. I'm off to research, but what do you think this came from that blew up??

I dont know. Here is the old post.

THC
Germany near Munich, Bavaria


Copper piece
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If I am not mistaken, the copper piece may be a piece of WW2 bomb shrapnel. I find these peices all the time here in Munich. We got bombed really bad in WW2. Unfortunately I don'thave a pic, because they land in the trash right away. The signals they give are extremely "good" and come up at around positive 80 on my Whites Eagle on a scale of 0 to 95.


http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,26094.0.html

 

[TN-Joe]

Just off hand I would say it's from a pineapple type gernade.
Joe