The unexploded round, which was seven inches long and weighed about 10 pounds, was identified as a three-inch Dyer or Burton shell for a rifled cannon.
Archeologist Steven Brann made a stunning discovery while sweeping the ground at the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania with a metal detector: a live 160-year-old artillery shell, as new and dangerous as the day it was fired in July 1863,The shell was found on February 8 at Little Round Top - the hill is significant as it offered the Union forces a tactical position during the Civil War.
An 18-month-long rehabilitation project by the National Park Service is underway at the Little Round Top as part of preservation efforts. Brann and his team from Stantec, a consultancy company that also performs archaeological work, were engaged in work when they found seven inches longThe unexploded ordnance shell that was found within the Little Round Top rehabilitation project area."Most of the objects we find are much smaller, such as percussion caps, bullets, and uniform buttons.
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