From the April 2, 2016, Arkansas Online "Civil War relic destroyed after it's identified as land mine."
A very rare 32-pound Confederate land mine with a pressure sensor fuse, the first-known one discovered west of the Mississippi River, has been found and then destroyed in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Matt Bell found it at his construction site near Danville in Yell County and thought he had a great old relic, but then he found out it was actually a land mine and that an x-ray test showed their could be explosives inside that might go off. The land mine was taken to the Garland County Landfill and safely detonated.
So, it was possible that it could have exploded when found and on the truck ride to Hot Springs.
More to Come. --Old Secesh
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