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Parrott rounds still being found (not eBay)
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George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:57:36 -0400
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THE SUN NEWS

Posted on Mon, Jul. 26, 2004

MURRELLS INLET

Historian, Civil War buffs weigh in on how shell got here

By Kelly Marshall

The Sun News

"A football-sized Parrott round found last week in Murrells Inlet could have been remaining ammunition from a skirmish between Confederate blockade runners and the U.S. Navy on the Waccamaw Neck."

<http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/9244007.htm>

George Myers

Two "empties" were found on the shore of the Foundry Cove, West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY during achaeological investigations for the EPA, where once shells were fired across the Hudson River at the Academy for practice. One mis-fire and the government had to repair the Cold Spring Catholic church, the first, its said, in the valley.

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