Found this at the weekend. Anyone slightly more clued up than me care to guess whether it’s likely to explode?! I guessed it’s solid metal rather than the explodey type, but may well be wrong…

Have you tried hitting it?

They sell those in Anne Summers

Mortar I’d say. Can I have your bike if there’s anything left if it?

Tap the end..

Go on, 😯

Oh. Mortars are the exploding ones right?

The Iron Giant used to be anatomically correct.

Dump it on the beach. That’s what I did with mine, looked just like that.

Oh. Mortars are the exploding ones right? (serious question) how do I get rid of this thing in a sensible way, without the bomb squad descending?

Put it back where you found it, and then ring the police?

…assuming you fancy transporting it again knowing what it might be.

Some idiot will pick it up and take it home.

Err, ahhhh, get it out of your house or don’t and get the police. Or throw it in the woodburner

It is shell, hence the rifling grooves, might be high explosive or incendiary or fragmentation or armour piercing.

Look at it this way, you might be on regional news tomorrow (explaining why you’re such a half wit)

Dump on the beach.

A little less fibre in your diet, perhaps.

Possible darwin award contender.

I’m on a dodgy connection so I’ve only had a brief look at the picture.
Its not a mortar round. It has a rifling band. I think its a 18 pounder. It doesn’t look like it has a fuse ( the pointy end would ne brass) so its not HE or Shrapnel. Probably a solid shot. Is it rather heavy?
Google 18 pounder solid shot.

Sorry 18 pounder shell

Looks like an artillery round rather than a mortar round. (It has rifling band marks on it)

That doesn’t mean to say that is not explosive.

Seriously though, get it dealt with properly. Why try and hide it for someone else to find?

OP deleted the pic?

Yes he has.

Panic not guys. I daftly took my Dad’s word that it was solid shot – and it does look like it might be, but I’ll get the police to deal with it. There’s certainly no brass on it.

Panicking cause he hearing the sound of sirens coming from the distance? 🙂

You know that a wee balloon will be getting inflated as soon as you tell plod.

That does look nothing like this:

So guess OP is safe.

Definitely remove it from the house before calling the police. A controlled explosion in the living room could be inconvenient.

Its probably a solid round fired as a training from a ship.

Well given the condition it’s fairly similar, even if it’s not I’m not sure that makes it safe.

Oh, I am not for a second saying it’s safe. It’s times like these we need a sarcasm font.

I am saying prayers for Mowgli as we speak.

And then you discover it’s a fossilised dinosaur turd 🙂

A coprolite? Unlikely, unless its a megasoraus.

Roman sex toy

A coprolite? Unlikely, unless its a megasoraus.

😆

Clearly we’ve evolved to no longer need rifling 🙂

I heard an interesting story from a fellow nurse involving an ex-serviceman, a ‘rectal foreign body’ and bomb disposal…

Clearly we’ve evolved to no longer need rifling

Depends how accurately you want to shit.

Shoot. Not shit, shoot.

Looks like a really big gear cable end cap…is it off a fat bike?

Heh. WTF Mowgli?

How could anyone think that is a good idea to take home?

microwaving it will make it safe.

Looks like a 50p coin. Although it might be a 20p its difficult to tell. If you tell us what size the unexploded shell is we’d be able to scale from that and tell you the value of your find. Strictly speaking you have to declare it as Treasure Trove. What you then have to do with it depends on whether you live north or south of the border. In scotland any treasure is quod nullius est fit domini regis: “that which belongs to nobody becomes our Lord the King’s”. The means you have to offer it to your nearest register monarch who can decide whether or not they want to buy a can of Irn Bru with it or take it down the penny slots at the arcade.

Some people have all the luck – never find anything good on the beach 🙁

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Is there an image in the OP? It isn’t displaying for me.