possible schrapnel ?

[keossvin]

hello, this is my first time posting here so forgive me for any mistakes...

yesterday I was searching in a forrest with some ww2 history and found a lot of these pieces.
they look just like some chunks of iron. any idea what these could be ? someone told me they could be schrapnel from german flak guns.
this one had a couple of hours of electrolysis to get rid of the rust.
my metal detector (garret ace 250) gave it as iron.





(srry for my language, english is not my mother tongue...)

 

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[keossvin]

 

[nsdq]

Welcome to T-net... it may be but i am not a expert on fragments of arty shell shells etc... happy hunting

 

[nhbenz]

I honestly know nothing about artillery in general (but there are those here who do!) however, in trying to find images of WWII German shrapnel I came across an interesting article which may be relevant: Shrapnel vs Shell Fragments

 

[keossvin]

I honestly know nothing about artillery in general (but there are those here who do!) however, in trying to find images of WWII German shrapnel I came across an interesting article which may be relevant: Shrapnel vs Shell Fragments

Thanks for the info ! Seems i've misused the word.
Maybe its a shell fragment ?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Welcome to TreasureNet. Your writing of English is very good. My special study area of war relics is American Civil War artillery shells, but I have a photo of a World War One shll fragment to compare with the fragment you found.

What you found might be a fragment of an artillery shell. But it appears to be cast-iron, which means it is from a war before the 20th Century. Or it might not be a shell fragment. Artillery shells from the 20th Century are almost always made of steel, which shatters differently from cast-iron. You'll be able to see the difference in these photos. In the photo showing two exploded shells which have been re-assembled, the fragments look like broken pieces of pipe, because they are cast-iron. Tose are from the American Civil War (1861-65). The other photos show two views of an artillery shell fragment which split into shreads with "ragged" (or "jagged") edges, because it is made of steel, from a World War One battlefield in France.

Your photos don't show the piece you found clearly enough for me to be certain about whether it is cast-iron, or steel. You can see it better than me. Does the piece you found have ragged / jagged edges like you see on the World War One shell fragment? If it does, it probably is an artillery shell fragment. If it isn't broken like the WW1 fragment, it's probably not from the 20th Century.