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[wisconsinACE]

Found at a 1920s farm site. Any ideas?

 

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[kingskid1611]

Looks like a shell fragment.....someone with that knowledge should help out

 

[longcut]

It is definitely not a moth ,,,,,,,,,,, that is what I got when I did a Google Search by Image ...............If it isn't a shell fragment , my guess would be something for punching holes or drilling holes in the ground ...........

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Inside of a manual drill chuck, looks a little small to be artillery

 

[DCMatt]

Fragment of a tooth from a digging or trenching machine?

 

[wisconsinACE]

1 more from the threaded end. Last aerial photo was 1946 and the property was a small farm in that day. Right now it a mature stand of red pine.

 

[DCMatt]

Broken dibble tip?

 

[Oddjob]

Fragment of a tooth from a digging or trenching machine?

Be my gguess as well.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Kingskid1611's guess is correct... it is a fragment of an exploded artillery shell. More specifically, it was part of an early-20th Century shell. The ridged area encircling your fragment's "outside" was to keep the shell's copperbrass band-sabot (a.k.a. "driving band") from slipping during firing. The threaded area on the frag's inside held a fuzeplug which screwed into this shell's base.

The photo below shows a late-1800s-to-early-1900s Hotchkiss-Patent artillery shell with a wide brass band-sabot and a base-fuze.

As to "how it got there":
Prior to the 1950s, cities and towns were much smaller... most of the US was very thinly populated agricultural land and forests. Therefore, the US Army could pretty much conduct "Live Firing" practice wherever it wanted to. For example, we civil war relic diggers here in Virginia frequently find fragments and fuzes from World War One artillery shells along the banks of the James River below Richmond. Also lots of 20th Century military bullet-casings.

 

[wisconsinACE]

Kingskid1611's guess is correct... it is a fragment of an exploded artillery shell. More specifically, it was part of an early-20th Century shell. The ridged area encircling your fragment's "outside" was to keep the shell's copperbrass band-sabot (a.k.a. "driving band") from slipping during firing. The threaded area on the frag's inside held a fuzeplug which screwed into this shell's base.

The photo below shows a late-1800s-to-early-1900s Hotchkiss-Patent artillery shell with a wide brass band-sabot and a base-fuze.

As to "how it got there":
Prior to the 1950s, cities and towns were much smaller... most of the US was very thinly populated agricultural land and forests. Therefore, the US Army could pretty much conduct "Live Firing" practice wherever it wanted to. For example, we civil war relic diggers here in Virginia frequently find fragments and fuzes from World War One artillery shells along the banks of the James River below Richmond. Also lots of 20th Century military bullet-casings.

I would have never guessed that that! Especially around this area. What year would these have been used primarily? I'm thinking maybe a war souvenir as there were no military installations anywhere around here.

 

[Duckshot]

I would have never guessed that that! Especially around this area. What year would these have been used primarily? I'm thinking maybe a war souvenir as there were no military installations anywhere around here.

Don't know where in WI you happen to be but there were tons of military installations in WI during WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam that were abandoned long ago. I'm familiar with a few of them in Southeast W mostly because many are public land today. Richard Bong Recreation Area used to be an airbase during WWII. There were a couple of munitions manufacturers right in the City of Milwaukee during WWII and Viet Nam, and Badger Ammunition had a plant and testing site right outside of Vernon Marsh in Waukesha Co. At the Badger plant there are a dozen or so water filled "donut" ponds from testing munitions that are still used by ducks and duck hunters today.

Or, maybe some cow farmer with a Hotchkiss launched one off to keep the neighbor's cattle out of his pasture?

 

[wisconsinACE]

Don't know where in WI you happen to be but there were tons of military installations in WI during WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam that were abandoned long ago. I'm familiar with a few of them in Southeast W mostly because many are public land today. Richard Bong Recreation Area used to be an airbase during WWII. There were a couple of munitions manufacturers right in the City of Milwaukee during WWII and Viet Nam, and Badger Ammunition had a plant and testing site right outside of Vernon Marsh in Waukesha Co. At the Badger plant there are a dozen or so water filled "donut" ponds from testing munitions that are still used by ducks and duck hunters today.

Or, maybe some cow farmer with a Hotchkiss launched one off to keep the neighbor's cattle out of his pasture?

I am about an hour south of Superior.