Hollow Steel Ball ???????????

[Tango Kilo]

Dug this today at about 6"inches. My heart was pounding because I thought it was a cannonball. But not in reality. This steel ball is hollow yet it weighs about 10-12 pounds and is 8" inches in diameter. It appears to be joined in halves and has three (3) broken tabs where something was attached. Sorry for the bad photos but I only had my cell phone with me. Would sure like to know what it is (was).
House site and property dates back to 1850. Cemetery in the woods with apprx. 40 graves, many of which are slave graves.

 

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[BUUFLOE]

BALL FOR SLAVE BALL AND CHAIN. LIKE ON A CHAIN GANG.

 

[Chug And Red]

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is an Ornamental-Ironwork ball. In this specific case, it is what we cannonball collectors call a "monument-ball"... a lighter-weight hollow reproduction of a cannonball made for use on various kinds of monuments. You'll see them on old battlefield monuments and also on cemetery monuments. The small high-raised bumps on that one are weld-spots where it was connected to a mounting framework. I've seen many of them during my decades as a xannonball collector and dealer.