Unidentified WW2 Shrapnel Chunk.

[WW2AviationHistorian]

Can anyone help me identify this piece of shrapnel? It is from the UK and probably around an airfield. The only thing I can think of is an American Mk. 2 “Pineapple” grenade but I just can’t definitively nail it down. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. (It is a little bigger than a US quarter) It was given to me by a veteran who just recently died.

[Mr.Jerry]

can you post a few more pics of it? Hard to see the shape. I think you are right though, it maybe a pineapple piece.

[Preppy Picker]

Don’t photograph it on white unless you have lots of light. Use a medium gray background inside or outside in the shade. That said, though very dark, I too think pineapple.

[WW2AviationHistorian]

Here are some brighter and better photos.

7 hours ago, Preppy Picker said:

Don’t photograph it on white unless you have lots of light. Use a medium gray background inside or outside in the shade. That said, though very dark, I too think pineapple.

I haven’t taken it out of its display case but thanks for the tip!

[S.ChrisKelly]

From the U.K.? British?

 

Close look at post #4, I am ten thousand percent sure that what you have is a really cool piece of shrapnel from a No. 36 Mills Bomb.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb