Rev War cannon ball

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

took my g/f Lynne to a colonial cellar hole that we had hit pretty hard in the past.still alot of iron at this site.i basically got skunked with a few shot gun head stamps and some straggler iron away from the foundation.Lynne yells to me from the side of the dirt road.Dave! c'mere.theres something under this root and i cant get it out! i think its a cannon ball.i was thinkin to myself "yeah right" get there and look in the hole.sure enough it was rounded iron but I was thinking a old curved piece of a rusty iron kettle

so,i open the hole up more on the side of root and it's lookin very round at this point.sure enough it's a 4.5 pound solid shot.everyone on a few military pages said yep rev war~! she said dave what the heck am i gonna do with that,you keep it honey!

she's the best!

 

[The Rebel]

Pretty Wild Dave! Same site that Frank dug his?

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

Pretty Wild Dave! Same site that Frank dug his?

thanks Rog,no totally diff site

 

[Bucknut]

Now that is cool!

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

Amazing find! It boggles the mind to think of the last person to touch that cannon ball over 230 years ago before Lynne dug it up. :wow:

erfect10:

 

[Mountaindigger]

Outstanding find, congratulations.

 

[OxShoeDrew]

Dave, is that the size they used in the rev war...is that how you dated it? Any rev war history at the site you were at? Awesome find!

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Sweet find!

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

thanks you guys!.drew not aware of any rev war activity here.maybe a souvenir brought home from battle? most civil war balls were even poundages.this is 4 1/2 so thats why many confirmed it being rev war

 

[Bell-Two]

Now you can say to anyone who teases you about getting skunked by your girl the same thing that I say when Diane skunks me "It's ok because at the end of the day both the girl and the finds come home with me!"

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

Now you can say to anyone who teases you about getting skunked by your girl the same thing that I say when Diane skunks me "It's ok because at the end of the day both the girl and the finds come home with me!"

LOL tony! good one

 

[del]

did you check it good for an "arrow" Dave ??

 

[MangoAve]

...Ok. I guess what I read I had missed. I thought they were still 4 Lb in the Rev war from the online articles. Apparently, I found one article that said 4 Lb 6 oz. They just rounded down for typing sake. Nice find tho. I'd have to admit the skunking where the girl beat me was at Rocky Neck. She got a silver ring right off the bat. She didn't realize tho, because she was telling me there were all these signals all over the place that she didn't bother to dig. Once we were back together (my machine wasn't working due to the train and power lines nearby so it went to car and I was chatting with another YTC member for a bit), we went together and I showed her some of what signals really are. Once she thought she had a good signal and it was junk when it was dug ..that's when she realized.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

did you check it good for an "arrow" Dave ??

arrow? ya mean this faint marking?

 

[Skamaniac]

What a terrific find!

 

[Isaac]

AWESOME congrats to her and you for having such an awesome girlfriend interested in the hobby

 

[del]

arrow? ya mean this faint marking?

yup , its the British mark .

 

[Lodge Scent]

Beyond cool !

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

yup , its the British mark .

I don't think mine has one :usaflag:

 

[MetalMiner]

very cool find, congrats