Cannon Ball???

[collector002000@yahoo.com]

I picked this up at an estate sale and was told it was a cannon ball. It weighs 11.10 pounds and has a diameter of 6 inches and seems to be made of cast iron. There is also a hard-to-see seem around the center of the ball. Can someone verify and give any other information.

 

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[taz42o]

How thick is the metal.?
Civil war cannonballs are thick walled.

Is your 6" dia. Measurement precise.?
Civil war era cannonballs were never a dead to the inch measurement.
A cannon ball of that era would either be 5.68" or 6.25"or 6.84" dia.

Foreign cannonballs I do not know.

 

[vlad]

Spherical Shot I've dug ran about 24 pounds; case shot more, shell less-and shells I dug were filled with powder.
Try Pete George at, petegeorge2@comcast.net
He and the late Tom Dickey wrote Field Arty Projectiles of the Am. Civil War.