CONFEDERATE 3-INCH READ SIDE LOADING SHELL FROM GETTYSBURG

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Item Code: M24383

Iron shell body is complete with copper sabot at bottom showing great rifling marks from having been fired. The body of the shell has moderate to heavy pitting from being in the ground until a few years ago. Digger has nicely cleaned and marked the body with a CS in an oval and “10 PD” READ/COPPER SABOT/BRASS FUSE PLUG” in white paint.

The shell has an upper and lower bourrelet that have blurred lines due to pitting but are easily discernable. One side of the nose still retains the lathe dog. Fuse plug has been drilled through to deactivate. Just above the upper bourrelet is a circular depression which is the remains of the side-loading plug.

Shell was recovered in Union trench line near Spangler’s Spring a few years ago by a local Gettysburg relic hunter, on private property with permission of the landowner.

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