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Please visit our eBay store for a complete list of in-stock Civil War relic recovery locations. We are working as partners in conjunction with Gettysburg Relics to offer some very nice American Civil War relics for sale. The owner of Gettysburg Relics was the proprietor of Artifact at 777 on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg for a number of years, and we are now selling on eBay. Here is an interesting relic condition LARGE caliber Iron Artillery Shell Fragment dug by metal detecting pioneer, Bill Gavin. It is fairly heavy, weighing 1 pound 6 ounces and measures about 4 1/4" by 2" by 1 1/2". This artifact has no known recovery location, but was in a group of relics found by Civil War Relic hunting pioneer Bill Gavin. There was, at least at one time, a video on You Tube of Gavin discussing metal detecting at Spotsylvania. Bill Gavin was the first relic hunter to use a metal detector to search for Civil War artifacts (back in the 1940s - the first location was Cold Harbor) and amassed a huge collection of items in the decades that followed. Gavin wrote four books, including the well-know "Accoutrement Plates North and South, 1861-1865" and several articles and was well respected for his knowledge in the field. He passed away in 2010. A provenance letter will be included with this relic. All of the collections that we are offering for sale are guaranteed to be authentic, and are either older recoveries, found before the 1960s when it was still legal to metal detect battlefields, or were recovered on private property with permission. Land on Battlefields that is now Federally owned, or owned by the Trust, was acquired after the relics were recovered. We will not buy or sell any items that were recovered illegally, nor will we sell any items that we suspect were recovered illegally. Thank you for viewing!