Are these cannon balls?

[elgatodelnoche]

Dad and I used to pickup trash along thousands of miles of Arizona highway each year. We did the 60 from Ellsworth in East Mesa to Superior and the road from Coyote Junction to Florence. We also did the Hunt Highway and Beeline Highway from Ft. MdDowell to the 4 Peaks turn off. We were out there every day for at least ten years. Anyway one time we had stopped at the rest stop at the Queen Valley turnoff and decided to explore out in the desert. We got about fifty yards out off of the south side of the road when these steel balls appeared just resting on the surface. We picked them up and took them home.

 

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[froggy]

Look like the steel balls used in the cruncher at a mill to make the crunched oro into powder.
Used to find them in Christmas mine area.

 

[elgatodelnoche]

Thanks froggy. That seems much more likely!

 

[roadrunner]

Yup,mill balls.
Had some I found up in superior one day.

 

[sleepyjim]

Curious how heavy are they?

Jim

 

[froggy]

[FONT=&quot]Varies[/FONT] by size about 1 to 5 lbs each