Minuteman Concord "Shots Heard Round The World"

[springfield art]

An article in NY Times of 8/11/24 shows several musket balls/shot found by the Park Service near Concord Bridge. Also they found two rows of flints about 30 feet apart, as though two lines of men drawn up in formation were told to freshen flints, and the discarded ones were as dropped. As one man said, the time "interval evaporates when you stand there; it just disappears". Even the NY Times has something of interest now and again!

 

[springfield art]

I do have to question how they found the "two rows of flints"?? If the earth has been plowed and weathered for 250 years! Can't find them with a metal detector! The article was under a single person's by-line, so who knows what info she had been given. And I'd think if the colonials were going out to do a possible engagement, they'd have tended to their flints first thing that day. Not like they'd already been in battle and had to re-freshen. The gov't. did do a fine-tooth combing of the Custer Battlefield, so who knows? And I wonder what access people had before it became a Park Service property over the centuries?

 

[Hermit Tim]

I do have to question how they found the "two rows of flints"?? If the earth has been plowed and weathered for 250 years! Can't find them with a metal detector! The article was under a single person's by-line, so who knows what info she had been given. And I'd think if the colonials were going out to do a possible engagement, they'd have tended to their flints first thing that day. Not like they'd already been in battle and had to re-freshen. The gov't. did do a fine-tooth combing of the Custer Battlefield, so who knows? And I wonder what access people had before it became a Park Service property over the centuries?

I can't even find flints in my bag so it would be interesting to know how they were discovered.

 

[springfield art]

I can't even find flints in my bag so it would be interesting to know how they were discovered.

Ha! How true! I also wonder about that detail. Again, the article was written by one woman and published in the paper. She could have been given verbal baloney by someone.

 

[smoothshooter]

I can't even find flints in my bag so it would be interesting to know how they were discovered.

Some kind of ground resonance radar?