INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare British Boer War Period 1900 Dated 15 Pounder Mark V, Breach Loading Horse Field Gun Shrapnel Shell. - O 1954 INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare British Boer War Period 1900 Dated 15 Pounder Mark V, Breach Loading Horse Field Gun Shrapnel Shell. - O 1954 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a rare and original British Boer War period 1900 dated shrapnel shell fired by a British 15 pounder breach loading field gun. The gun was used extensively by the British in the Boer War and was introduced in December 1900. Although this gun was outdated at the time, it was complemented by the superior 15 pounder Erhardt gun which used a separate loading brass cartridge instead of a bagged charge and was purchased from the German gunmaker Erhardt in 1901. These guns remained in service until the introduction of the 18 pounder field gun in 1904. The fired shrapnel projectile is stamped on the side 08/08/1900 (8th August 1900) and a crowfoot 10/1900 (October 1900). The base of the projectile is stamped 15Pr V (15pr mark 5). F S (Forged Steel). The projectile is fitted with a brass number 56 time and percussion fuse is stamped round its circumference 3/01 (March 1901 date) R crowfoot L (Royal Laboratories) EOC (Elswick Ordnance Company) IV 837 N . The copper driving band shows the clearly defined rifleing of the 15 pounder gun. See Hogg British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914 – 1914 pages 70-71. The projectile is in excellent condition. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess inert rounds in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. O 1954