The shell fired by government troops at Jacobite forces is believed to have landed on boggy ground and its fuse fizzled out.
Ahead of the 280th anniversary of the final Jacobite uprising at Culloden Battlefield, archaeologists from the National Trust for Scotland have recovered an unexploded mortar shell, thought to have ...
A team of archeologists, metal detectorists, and volunteers led by the National Trust for Scotland have uncovered an ...
The device, a mortar explosive shell, had a 1,000-foot blast radius, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
"A remarkable—dare I say, explosive—find of the kind archaeologists dream of." ...