What looks like a kettle full of rocks, is actually a kettle full of artillery shrapnel. These are pieces of cannon balls that have exploded. Not all cannon balls were solid iron. A lot were hollow and full of black powder and grapeshot. After being shot, these cannon balls would explode in flight and send shrapnel flying all over the field of battle. Very devastating to the foot soldiers.
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