Friend gave me a Cannonball? (ADDED MOR PICS)

[JUNKYARD DOG]

My bud next door went to a auction today and bought a bunch of stuff, well in this one pile was this cannonball so the auctioneer claimed. My friend knows how much I like this kinda stuff so he gave it to me. There is a couple of flat spots on the ends and I guess this mold or rib mark all the way around it, since I have never held one and looked closely at one I dont know. It weighs a little over 14 lbs. Anyone know what I have here, is it the real deal and how old it may be? Thanks for looking. JYD

 

[olepossum]

Re: Friend gave me a Cannonball?

i believe it is the real deal with the band around it i am a cw re enactor i do artillery so i hope i am right

 

[duggap]

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Sorry but I don't believe it is real. First it is not exactly round and I have never seen the band around a real cannon ball. I have dug three round balls.

 

[incajoe]

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My instinct is telling me that it's not a cannonball.

 

[auger]

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14 pounds is a pretty heavy ball. Although, if you placed a cannonball, a shot put, and an ornamental iron ball in front of me, I likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference. One thing I can tell you...... You have a really good friend living next door!

 

[kansas coin hunter]

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shot put my freind i used to theam in high school

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Friend gave me a Cannonball?

There is no fuse hole, so it would have to be a solid shot. And there is no sabot or band on a solid shot, to my knowledge...


So I don't think it's a cannonball--but I don't know what it is. Weight is not a determination--there were hundred-pound shells hurled through the air by both sides during the Civil War. But I don't think this was one of them.


Best Wishes,



Buckleboy

 

[wildrider]

Re: Friend gave me a Cannonball?

I'm 99.9999% sure the auctioneer was wrong.
I can't tell you for certain what it is, but I can tell you what it aint. It ain't a cannonball my friend.

Now, had he said it was picked up on a battlefield...nope, I won't go there.

 

[crazyjarhead]

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Too bad

 

[armchairQB30]

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If the weight is marked on it, then it is a shotput. While metal detecting near a battlefield last year a kid walked up to me and said he found a cannonball in his back yard. I told him to let me see it, it very clearly had a 14LB marked on it with great detail.

 

[CRUSADER]

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I can't remember what they are called, but it maybe one of those 'industrial crushing balls' used to grind stuff

 

[Bavaria Mike]

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That might be the ball part of, "My wife has me on a BALL and chain" minus the chain, LOL! I have found a shot put and a 3 pound cannon ball and no idea what that is. Maybe a crushing ball like Crusader said. It is interesting. HH, Mike

 

[GL]

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Do shot put have bands?

 

[CRUSADER]

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Do shot put have bands?

not the ones I lobbed

 

[allen]

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at least it was free for you anyways..

 

[Virginia_Relic]

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Looks like a mill ball to me. Don't ever recall a cannonball with that wide band around it

 

[HolyDiver]

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If it's not a cannonball, what the heck is it? haha

 

[NGE]

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Slingshot fodder that Davey killed the giant with..... ..NGE

 

[kdismuke1]

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YOU HAVE A GOOD FRIEND.

 

[Lookin]

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Maybe it is a ball out of a ball mill. Ball mills tumbled these types of balls to pulverize gold ore before the powder was processed to extract the gold and other valuable minerals.

Or, it might be a shot put, or a fake cannonball, or a ball barring out of Paul Bunion's ox cart!

Lookin