WWII fuzes help needed

[campo17]

Hello everybody,
I write from Rimini, Italy. The Gothic Line battle interested my city during WWII and involved Germans, Canadians, Polish and British soldiers and USA bombers.
Some days ago I found a lot of fuzes near my house in a recent excavation. Could anyone tell me if they may contain explosive material? Shall I call the officers? Are them dangerous?
Furthermore, can anyone identify them? Witch kind of bomb are them taken from?
Thankyou very mutch.

 

[spotter]

perfectly SAFE transport plugs for artillery projectiles ,if you carefully clean the mud/rust from the tops you may find markings which could help determine which projectiles these fitted

 

[campo17]

thankyou very mutch.
And what about this? It was between the other plugs.

 

[bloome]

Thats the transportcontainer where the fuze and booster were stored in.

 

[campo17]

I just cleaned one of those plugs.
On the top you can read
N13C.IIIF.Y.T 1944
or perhaps
N13C.WIF.Y.T 1944
or also
N13C.MIF.Y.T 1944

Has anyone any idea on what doeas this code means?

 

[bloome]

No.13 is the number for this type of plug, as used in different projectiles,
for example in 5,5" UK.

 

[AMMOTECHXT]

The No 13 plug was also used in 25 Pounder shells and was compatible with 18 Pounder shells, in addition to the 5.5 inch already mentioned. The photos show plug Numbers 1, 2 and 13 in brass that were all fitted to 25 Pounder HE shells that were fired out to sea in training - such firings were authorised in WW2, presumably to practice gun crews but without using operational fuzes. All such plugs were 2 inch fuze hole guage. I believe the square hole was about 3/8 inch. The last photo shows two No 13 plugs - one is from a shell that was detonated, the other is from a shell that was not detonated. The Nos 1 and 2 plugs when used, often resulted in a partial or `low order' detonation that blew out a portion of the shell wall but left the remainder intact.

 

[TimG]

I think 'Y.T.' is Yale and Towne Co, Wood Street, Willenhall, Birmingham.

TimG