"Unexploded Mortar Shell recovered at Culloden" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	24 Apr 2026 4:37 a.m. PST
…The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) announced in mid-April that its archaeologists had found a mortar shell at Culloden Battlefield, just outside Inverness in the Scottish Highlands… Fox News: link
rustymusket	24 Apr 2026 6:51 a.m. PST
Things like this finding help you understand that so much of our understanding of history needs to be as "this seems to be what it was based on what we know at this point".
Parzival	24 Apr 2026 8:21 a.m. PST
"It dinnae go ‘Bum'!"
Grelber	24 Apr 2026 10:31 a.m. PST
Will it be returned to its owner? Grelber
Mserafin	24 Apr 2026 10:52 a.m. PST
I did not know anyone was using mortars at Culloden. 5.5" sounds more like a howitzer. Not to be pedantic or anything…
BillyNM	24 Apr 2026 11:44 a.m. PST
~Mserafin – there were Coehorn mortars in 5.5" calibre.

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