A mystery today with this next photo. Shared here by Rob Gordon, pictured is a rather nasty looking piece of shrapnel, jagged metal, which looks to have come apart by the force of some explosion.
The mystery being that it was picked up in Blantyre during WW2. Rob was born during wartime years and it was collected near his house at 56 Station Road by one of his two elder brothers Ian or Neil. Sadly both men have passed on, so no collaboration about further information has been possible.
So now a mystery exists. Where did it come from? What caused such force to break it apart? One theory Rob has is this is a remnant from a shell fired from the Aircraft battery at the Whins. Perhaps if there’s any wartime or ballistic experts reading, they could confirm if this is a shell? It got us thinking that perhaps residents in wartime were exposed to the risk of being struck by such vicious objects during German attacks on places nearby like Glasgow or Clydebank.
I’m not sure through. I think shells would have to be smooth to be ejected properly at speed?
Perhaps it simply came apart in some blacksmiths forge? Or is a remnant from mining? The worked ridges confirm it is man made, and although I’ve no idea how old it could be, it appears it was something functional.
Any views?
Looks like mortar shell shrapnel, incidentally I find loads of this and have found over 20 Mills bombs (ww2 grenades) shrapnel /remains while metal detecting around the lady Nancy bing, I think the volunteers/Home guard had some fun with their supplied arms they didn’t get to use……😆, I find quite a bit of military buttons,cap badges etc along calderside Rd/Auchintibber, jimmy