18-cm Shell in a Wooden Box Segment, Half a point-shaped 18 cm grenade sawn in half, in a wooden box. The grenade is 45 cm long and has a caliber of 176 mm. He has two rings of bronze cams for a drawn barrel with three migratory fields. The nose has the shape of a bottle neck with a tube hole. The grenade is hollow: the explosive charge is surrounded by twelve iron segment rings, which are glued together with lead. The used bottom is also attached with lead rings., W.G. Armstrong & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1868, iron (metal), bronze (metal), brass (alloy), wood (plant material), shell: h 8.8 cm × w 45 cm × d 17.6 cm box: h 19.5 cm × w 49 cm × d 27 cm

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