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Re: canon ball maybe
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This sounds like what was known as a Six Pounder. About the size of a modern day soft ball.
Suggest you weigh it and get its true weight.
Be care. If the weight is one and a half pounds it must be hollow,
Many of these things are loaded with Black Powder and it continus to be volatile,
(It is dangerous and will blow up.)

If so, it was very common.

Sam P

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