What type of shell

[Duane Pringle]

Out in the field right now dug a couple of small pieces of shell then we dug this shell frag any ideas?

 

[Duane Pringle]

Oh the buckle woth hook we just dug to.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Yesterday we found a copper sabot 2 big sections of it.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Frags and other stuff with out bullets found.

 

[UCVRelics]

When you get a chance post the measurements across the bottom but it looks like a 2.9 inch Parrott

 

[Duane Pringle]

2.96 rust added some to measurements what type of sabot would of it used? Usually find hotchkiss frags these are out of the norm finds for us did find some pieces of driving band for hotchkiss.

 

[UCVRelics]

It would have been a brass sabot.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Ok we found 2 pieces of copper sabot with rifling looks like the one on my read shell.

 

[Duane Pringle]

Front and back of one of the copper sabot piece

 

[Duane Pringle]

Thanks for info!

 

[UCVRelics]

That may be brass. The read was a 2.6. Both the read and parrott are very similar in design. The base of the one you found has me leaning parrott.

 

[pringmaster]

Does anyone know what kind of iron buckleit is? it is the bigger one.