679 Cannonballs found

[xaos]

Gare...did YOU forget anything?

these are ............................................................. mill balls....

Wish there was still the "unlike button"

 

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[smokeythecat]

Yes, mill balls.

 

[crashbandicoot]

I do believe the unlike button is there.When you click on like,the unlike comes up and you can click on that to unlike.No offense.

 

[Gare]

Gare...did YOU forget anything?

these are FN mill balls....

Wish there was still the "unlike button"

I don't think i forgot ANYTHING. I was trying to add a little humor to the post. If you found it offensive so be it !!!!!~

 

[crashbandicoot]

C,mon man!

 

[augoldminer]

A guy in Teller county we used to live by prospected in Az alot.
He once found what he thought was cannonballs in a cave, ended up being balls of silver.
I dont know why they would have made balls with the silver but maybe it was easy for them.

The Cannon Balls of Panamint - On the Trail & ‘Round the Campfire

 

[xaos]

I do believe the unlike button is there.When you click on like,the unlike comes up and you can click on that to unlike.No offense.

That is because you have already clicked "like" and you can null your "like" vote...

There is no UNLIKE vote per se.

 

[Gare]

Great FIND and thanks for sharing

 

[bobinsd]

Assuming mill balls, I would go back and look for the mine!

 

[Relichunter1]

Its not out of the question to presume they could be cannonballs. John C. Fremont purchased the Los Mariposas Land Grant through his agent Mr. Larkin. Fremont owned the Josephine Mine and had a cannon and with the cannon he had many cannon balls. So cannon balls can be found in the Sierras. These are ball mill hardened steel balls used to crush ore. Regardless if they were cannon balls or mill balls , its still a cool find. The Fremont cannon that was at his fort near the Bagby grade was never found, but his fort was and I believe the archeological department of Stanislaus University had done a dig on the site and collected a bunch of artifacts back in the 60's or 70's. John C. Fremont abandoned a cannon in the Sierra Nevada snow in 1844, the cannon remains lost for more then 160 years.