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Title: Beach find id help please Post by: badja52 on July 21, 2014, 07:33:47 PM On the Dyfi estuary today, ring pulls and a few pence and then this tuns up !.
Looks and feels like aluminium but not sure it is pure, maybe an alloy. weighs about 50 grams Lots of numbers and marks and both ends seem to have screw threads. Marks I can see are:- ?5INPAM1944 653A BP ?8 could it be Military ? pics:- Title: Re: Beach find id help please Post by: hoarder on July 21, 2014, 07:49:33 PM looks like a fuse from a bomb :-\
Title: Re: Beach find id help please Post by: badja52 on July 21, 2014, 08:18:21 PM Yep, that was my first thoughts . . :o
Some firing activity in the area in the past Title: Re: Beach find id help please Post by: Meatslicer on July 22, 2014, 02:41:26 AM Its not a mortar fuse coz they look like this......
Title: Re: Beach find id help please Post by: Chef Geoff on July 22, 2014, 06:41:10 AM No Eric that mortar looks like that but there are many different types, this is an 81mm round, relatively modern but I'm sure if you search "mortar rounds" you'll get a match ;)
Title: Re: Beach find id help please Post by: badja52 on July 22, 2014, 05:27:14 PM I'd say that's in the right ball park Geoff. Mine is about half the length of one in your pic, so I guess a smaller round.
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