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Early coehorn mortar shell (grenade), 12-pounder, ca. 1813.

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Early coehorn mortar shell (grenade), 12-pounder, ca. 1813.
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Early coehorn mortar shell (grenade), 12-pounder, ca. 1813. 3.49 kg, 4.5" in diameter. Mortar shells called "bombs" in early accounts were fired out of mortars called "coehorns" after their inventor, also shells up to 12 pounds in size were used on ships as grenades during boarding actions, filled with powder and ignited with a wooden fuse driven into the hole in the shell. This example is in excavated condition but well preserved, the iron stable and solid, with a lightly aged pitted surface, cleaned and preserved at some point. Found at an 1813 battle site in New York state in the 1960s.