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I looked into getting some old oil analysed on a poorly engine I briefly owned.
The analysis is fairly pricey depending on what sort of tests that you need, but they can tell all sorts of things from the old oil. Such as identifying trace elements of metals that could indicate wear on specific components.
You have a little more than a "trace element" there unfortunately, but there are two ways you could take this idea further.
The first would be to have your old oil tested to see what metals are present in unusual levels, which might give some clues.
The other would be to see if anyone could identify the shrapnel you have extracted, and see if the chemical make up of it could be matched to anything specific.
Of course, assuming that you could get the DNA of the shrapnel, you would then have to find out what various bits were made of in order to establish where it came from.
I know that the oil analysis already exists over the counter, maybe the same vendors can offer a metal dissection service too?
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