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04-20-2019 04:49 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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My guess would be a grave marker.
D.
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Hi, yes, i think this is a well weathered grave marker helmet as well, good find. Leon.
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real steel
My guess would be a grave marker.
D.
I agree. That hole displays none of the characteristics of a high velocity penetration from a fragment of shrapnel. The surrounding area of the shell is not distorted and I can't see any relevant colour change as is often associated with such. Also, the edges of the hole whilst jagged are straight in relation to the surface of the shell suggesting a solid support on the inside (wooden post maybe?) when the penetration occurred. A steel helmet is not an easy thing to bash a hole through and it takes a lot of force which probably accounts for the jagged outline if something like a pick-axe was used.
It is a fairly poignant atrifact. Do you know where it was recovered?
Thanks for showing.
Regards
Mark
Last edited by Watchdog; 04-21-2019 at 12:31 PM.
Reason: typo
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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Sure, if you look at the shape of the hole in the last picture, the lower right of the hole displays about 40% or more of a right angle or square shape similar to the point of a pick axe.
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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