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Hi all:
Wanted to ask the experts here some advice. Diving in New England yesterday, my partner came across a huge cannonball just offshore at a site with military history dating back pre-Civil War. Anyway, to make a long story short we came back with some tools, managed to free it from concretion and checked it out before bringing it up. While looking we found a small circular depression that looks like it was a hole, plugged, into which black powder was poured. This thing is huge. Research yesterday night settled on the possibility that it's a shot from one of the 8" Columbiads and 1 32 pounder cannon stationed at the site.
If it was an ordinary revolutionary-era ball with no powder, we would have brought it up, no problem. But seeing as it could have a charge in it, we decided not to mess with it. We want the thing, but we thought it was best to leave it in the water as it's likely still live. Anyway, any of you southern relic experts know how we could properly handle this ball .. ie, get it diffused? Let me know. Thanks.
Wanted to ask the experts here some advice. Diving in New England yesterday, my partner came across a huge cannonball just offshore at a site with military history dating back pre-Civil War. Anyway, to make a long story short we came back with some tools, managed to free it from concretion and checked it out before bringing it up. While looking we found a small circular depression that looks like it was a hole, plugged, into which black powder was poured. This thing is huge. Research yesterday night settled on the possibility that it's a shot from one of the 8" Columbiads and 1 32 pounder cannon stationed at the site.
If it was an ordinary revolutionary-era ball with no powder, we would have brought it up, no problem. But seeing as it could have a charge in it, we decided not to mess with it. We want the thing, but we thought it was best to leave it in the water as it's likely still live. Anyway, any of you southern relic experts know how we could properly handle this ball .. ie, get it diffused? Let me know. Thanks.