 |
 |
|
| |
Here are some Civil War items found in Virginia.
|
|
 |
This is how a lot of soldiers
entertained themselves around camp when all was quite on the war front. This
is a working toy cannon which is made of lead. Soldiers made items such as
bullet carvings, id badges, poker chips, and yes, even toy cannons out of
their lead. The lead was available and soft to carve.
Although this is a toy cannon,
it is quite heavy and has the hole for the fuse, and in all reality seems to
have been a working model. Most that have been found are quite smaller and
shot a very small bullet or ball. |
|
 |
The Saber blade marks which
have been hacked into the cannon makes one think that either he almost shot
someone with it while playing, or scared someone real bad, or maybe even
hacked it himself when it flew out of his hand while firing and bounced off
his head! I guess we will never know! |
|
 |
You can use the ruler as a
guide to the actual size of the toy cannon. Also notice the end of the
barrel, you can see the marks which shows that the shaped of the barrel was
achieved by carving or shaving it off with a knife. |
|
 |
This is the group of other items
which I found on the trip in the same area.
The area had so called been pounded for years by many metal detectorist,
however, I was able to still find these items, and I would bet my last
dollar that someone will go there after me and still find this much or even
more. It is never all found! Keep going back! |
|
| |
The contents of this site
are copyright© 2000,Snake Grills/S&P
Treasure Finders |
|
|
|
