Boer War Spion Kop Relic, fine piece of heavy shell shrapnel fragment weighing approximately 1.75kg with British broad arrow stamp. Old paper label attached with inked ‘Picked up on Spion Kop by Dr Rowlands on the 6th day Jany 1901’ old museum collection number inked under this ‘No25’. Heavy and sharp. It is believed that this piece of shell shrapnel was from one of the Royal Navy guns brought up to support the British troops attacking Spion Kop on 24th January 1900 during the Boer War, sadly many of the naval shells fell on the Kop itself causing heavy casualties on the British troops.