Need help on I-Ding a possible cannon ball.

[SPWalker]

Need help on I-Ding a possible cannon ball.

While at a small local small gun show I came across an assumed ‘shot-put’ but thinking it could be a cannon ball. The previous owner knows little about its history from what I could tell. The ball is steel and solid and is 5 9/16” across. Anyone have a index on cannon balls and size of cannonballs made?

If it is a shot-put after all it is still worth the ¼ sawbuck it cost me and will be fun to show off .

Thanks for reading.

SPWalker
Mc Allen, Texas

[johnreb1980]

Here is a good chart to compare your ball to,Jonathon.


http://www.civilwarartillery.com/shottables.htm

[mobrigade]

Not a cannonball due to size.

[SPWalker]

I took the ball to the lab where I work (TxDOT). We weighed it and put a mike to it for size:

Size is 3.565 +/-100th
Weight is 6 lbs 6.72 oz or 6.420 pounds.
* Not perfectly round as it wobblies a bit when I spin it. Looks like a few 100th of an inch off.
No markings or cast marks that I can see. Looks like it was painted black at one time. Some small pits in the surface.

* I had an anteques dealer here in South Texas look at it and he told me that it could have been shot and knocked out of round after it hit an object (if it is a cannon ball).

sw