any cannon ball experts

[MINELABBOB]

DONT KNOW
if this is the real deal but its heavy 55mm. across and it looks like a sm. cannon ball.
chime in if any body knows?? out in the old FARMERS FIELD!!


minelabbob


CTX is back!!

 

[MINELABBOB]

THIS THING IS HEAVY

 

[hubbler]

Minelabbob,

Send a description (size and weight) and a picture to virginia relics--a civil war artifact site. You can find their email address at virginiarelics.com website.

Back in the '70s and '80s my dad detected lots of old civil war sites in SW VA--before they were closed to detecting and found some cannon balls and lots of bullets, buttons and other miscellaneous items. He sold a couple cannonballs to the Virginia Relics guys.

Hope you find out that it's from that era and that it's worth a couple dollars.

Ron

 

[MINELABBOB]

thanks ron i will do that .i would like to know if it is and what cal/mm cannon i came from. the only other thing can be is a round roller maybe??
it would be my first maybe from revollutionary war 1812 been hitting old fields were they will let me dig in this heat wave raining now after 2week
i hope it pours!!!!


bob

 

[indy durtdigger]

That is a dead ringer for one that a friend of mine found in a farm field around Hartford City IN. The local historian club up there that puts on a rather big military reenactment festival in that town told him it was from a cavalry sized cannon that was used at the fort where the town is nowadays. I hope that's what yours is as that would be cool. On a related side note I have looked for one of those for years. One of the structures from Fort Summit survives to this day and sits a quarter mile from my folks front door, after thirty years of walking fields looking for artifacts I haven't found so much as a three ringer. This year I added relic hunting to my metal detecting so here's hoping.

 

[MINELABBOB]

HI INDY
thanks 4 the info that is what i though sm cal/mm cannon i love hunting farms and fields dont worry my friend your day is comming!! the more you put into metel detecting
the more you get out. i have been into metel detecting 4 - 31+years now and i can tell you there will be days were you will come home with some kind of story and treasure
dont worry i have also had days were i came home with 3 doz. pull-tab and no rings!! but that is a nother story


good hunting

minelabbob

 

[banditicey]

Very Nice

 

[TXPIRATE]

Looks like a 4 pounder,

 

[MINELABBOB]

i dont know 4-sure but a nice find anyway

thanks guys!!

minelabbob

 

[Drjohn71a]

Send a pic to Beau Ouimettes YouTube site. He is an expert in metal detecting and restoring cannonballs and old shells/

 

[MINELABBOB]

THANKS DR-JOHN !!!

WILL DO

 

[indy durtdigger]

HI INDY
thanks 4 the info that is what i though sm cal/mm cannon i love hunting farms and fields dont worry my friend your day is comming!! the more you put into metel detecting
the more you get out. i have been into metel detecting 4 - 31+years now and i can tell you there will be days were you will come home with some kind of story and treasure
dont worry i have also had days were i came home with 3 doz. pull-tab and no rings!! but that is a nother story


good hunting

minelabbob

Sending a pic. and message to Aquachigger is a really good idea, civil war relics is his specialty. Also in my previous post I didn't mean jewelry, I was referring to the Minnie style bullets that military arms used through the mid 1800's. I have found so many musket balls I only keep ones that have something unusual about them, the rest I pass on to a buddy that scraps metals of all kinds.