Originally Posted By: GLS
Blackpowder arty rounds from the Civil War still go boom after 150 years of burial on southern battlefields.


Gil,

A friend of mine used to be a serious WBTS artifact collector and once found an unexploded cannonball several feet deep with his high $ metal detector. He got into it somehow and got the blackpowder out, loaded it in his flintlock, and fired it. Said it wasn't black, but Grey in color. Musta been a Confederate cannonball. wink

SRH

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