Shae1324
Junior Member
So I have recently been going back through some of the year's finds to date, and I came back across this weird thing I found during my last visit home in October.
I was hunting at my old family home place in Snead's Ferry, North Carolina, which is about 30 miles north of Wilmington. The area is known as Clay Hill, and there were several old houses on it that had been torn down by 1942 when my great grandparents built the house that still stands there now. Out of about thirty acres, I have barely scratched the surface of what's there. The hill suffers from erosion, and has for many, many years. It is not uncommon to find things on top of the ground after a week of hard rain.
At any rate, this thing seems to be steel. It measures 1 3/4" long, 5/8" in diameter at the mouth, and the base is 3/4" is diameter. The mouth has a bevel inside it, and it is only hollow to about half the overall length. There are no markings on it that I can see, there are several cracks in the sides of it. The base has a sizable nick in it that was already there when I found it. What on earth is it? My first knee jerk reaction was that it was some type of shell casing, but I honestly have no idea. Any help would be much appreciated.
I was hunting at my old family home place in Snead's Ferry, North Carolina, which is about 30 miles north of Wilmington. The area is known as Clay Hill, and there were several old houses on it that had been torn down by 1942 when my great grandparents built the house that still stands there now. Out of about thirty acres, I have barely scratched the surface of what's there. The hill suffers from erosion, and has for many, many years. It is not uncommon to find things on top of the ground after a week of hard rain.
At any rate, this thing seems to be steel. It measures 1 3/4" long, 5/8" in diameter at the mouth, and the base is 3/4" is diameter. The mouth has a bevel inside it, and it is only hollow to about half the overall length. There are no markings on it that I can see, there are several cracks in the sides of it. The base has a sizable nick in it that was already there when I found it. What on earth is it? My first knee jerk reaction was that it was some type of shell casing, but I honestly have no idea. Any help would be much appreciated.
