Well, I hope his 2nd find is a mideval treasure trove — under adult supervision, of course. I think I’d have a stroke i my 7 year old dug up a bomb!
The family was then arrested for possession of a weapon.
I found part of a cannon ball when I was about 6 or 7.
Problem is I can’t find were there was ever a cannon that size in the state of Texas.
The cannon would have about 10 inch bore. That’s a massive cannon and would have only been used on a ship, not on land.
A friend and I found an intact 22-mm shell on the beach at Wheelus Air Base in Libya, back when the U.S. had a presence there. Hard to believe, but we had the good sense to leave it there and not fiddle with it. I think I was eleven or twelve years old at the time.
Sandy hook beach in NJ was loaded with ordinance...it was shut down cause someone found a grenade of some sort and took it off the beach...
When I was stationed in Germany(1959-1962)we found unexploded ordinance all the time. Most of us would leave it alone and report it. Some idiots would pick them up and take them to an officer.
As much stuff as was lying around at that time, I don't know how many German of that time didn't get blown to hell just walking in the woods.
WWII INERT MK23-MOD 1 NAVY PRACTICE BOMB
When I was in the first or second grade, I found one of
these under the living room window. The center is hollow
and it's obviously harmless. I used it as a doorstop
decades.