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  1. 11-14-2014, 10:40 PM #1
    lreed
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    Cannon ball ID

    Hello, hoping some of you might help me id a cannon ball that I bought at a junk sale down on the Gulf last week. The ball weighs 4.6 lbs and is a nominal 3.1/8 in in diameter . I can't place it in any of the civil war ordinance,of course it could be from anywhere seeing as how the have been chunking them things at each other for a long time down there.If anybody has a idea I'd like to hear it. Thanks lreed
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  2. 11-17-2014, 12:10 AM #2
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    IF it is a cannon ball it might be hazardous to ones health.

    It might be a ball from a "Ball Mill" also.
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  3. 11-17-2014, 06:05 AM #3
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    I’m unable to help on the identification but did remember a story from a few years back that you might be interested in.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05...nonball-blast/
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