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Hello. I once worked with some archaeologists from Texas in the West Point Foundry cove part of Constitution Island, across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy. We were limited to the marginal area of the site where the EPA since has built an earthen dam and removed cadmium contamination from battery production, for Nike missiles, hauled out on the former railbed for the foundry which produced among other, the Parrott rifled cannons used in the US Civil War. Under the early 20th century "Bridge Shop" remains, we found what still has me in a quandary, either the prototype of the "Swamp Angel" or the original towed back on grillage from it's still unfound location from the swamp nearby Charleston, South Carolina where the Union bombarded its downtown in 1863 with incendiary explosives. Nearly 700 friction primers were found so I think it was the prototype R. P. Parrott designed gun platform we actually found there after magnetometer survey and computer digitized map overlay from photo of a map in a glass case at the Foundry School Museum. We didn't get to caisson and take it apart however.
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