Surprise Find While Beach Detecting In Australia

[1515Art]

Hmmm, thanks gold seeker... I typed steel, but ment iron. The ones my dad had did have some kind of a squarish slot or slots, but for sure no flat areas or seams that I remember. The story was they came directly from a pile of balls stored somewhere on the military base, I'm pretty sure that's accurate, so if they weren't cannon balls I don't know what else they would have been... Sounds like they would have been solid shot.

[Gold Seeker]

All solid shot has a molding seam, sometimes depending on the finishing work (i.e, filing) done after casting may have made the seam less apparent on some shot.

I guess at some point someone could have milled square slots in some larger cannonballs after they were found to aid in moving them around.

http://www.pochefamily.org/books/SolidShotEssentialsMod.html

[idahogold]

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