16/02/2023 Stati Uniti (United States-USA), Pennsylvania (PA), Adams County, Gettysburg
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The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried under a foot of dirt at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Park employees shut down roads and cleared the area around the 7-inch-tall shell, which park spokesman Jason Martz said “could have easily killed a dozen people,” according to Pennlive.com. The archeologist — identified by Stars and Stripes as Steven Brann — made the shock discovery last Wednesday while sweeping the grounds ahead of a work crew that planned to rehabilitate a famous area of the battlefield known as Little Round Top. Brann started to dig around after his metal detector registered a hit, Martz said. Soon, he unearthed an intact, still-live 10-pound artillery shell that likely dates back to the 1863 battle that claimed about 51,000 casualties over three days of fighting. The spokesman called it “an extremely rare find,” and could not say the last time such a thing was uncovered on the field.
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