Revolutionary war cannonball!!!!!!

[Eagle101]

I don't know where to begin. But this was #1 on my revolutionary war bucket list. I still can't believe it.

So I went into a field we have done a bunch of times. It's on the battle of Rhode Island site. I got a good signal on my deus. It was reading 88-92. I dug down about 1+ feet and still the signal was kick ass. I told my buddy there was something good down there. So he started recording it. Well I found a rusty square nail so he was bummed and stopped recording it. I checked the hole and my pinpointer was still going off. I dug about a foot more and felt an edge so I thought it was a a plow edge. I put my shovel in and pryed it up and the can't believe that it was a cannonball that popped up.

So I took it to the bar for a couple of beers for the victory tour

 

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[The Patriot]

Congrats...you'll never forget your first one that's for sure...now to increase your count..

 

[coryg]

Congrats! Awesome find.

 

[Scrappy]

Oh man that bar pic is hilarious! I probably would have done similar. Congrats on the cannonball

 

[ironhorse]

Finding that on a known battle site is awesome!
a treasure for sure!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Holy crap! A revolutionary war cannon ball...doesn't get any better than that!!! Congratulations.

 

[Eagle101]

Thanks everyone. I still can't believe it!!!!!

 

[pcc]

So this guy walks into a bar with a canon ball .......................................


Way to go I know that made your day.

 

[UnderMiner]

Excellent! Not every day you can dig up a large piece of something that literally played a part in founding this nation!

 

[Eagle101]

Ok that was funny as ****!!!

 

[PACO]

16 pounder. Nice Cannon ball. I hope you dug that towards the end your day. That would have been heavy to lug around..... LOL

 

[Old Dude]

I would imagine the bartender doesn't get a lot of patrons with one of those! Congrats to you!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Way to go! That's on the bucket list for a lot of relic hunters.

 

[terpfan]

Heck of a find and I love that bar photo. "Another round for me and my cannonball buddy."

 

[Eagle101]

Heck of a find and I love that bar photo. "Another round for me and my cannonball buddy."

Yeah it was pretty funny. Especially explaining to everyone that 15 minutes from where they were sitting the largest battle in new England took place the battle of Rhode Island. Nobody even knew...sad.

 

[ramjet2187]

Rakkasan!!

Great find. Here's to hoping you find many more!!

 

[ggossage]

Congrats and AIRBORNE!

 

[parsonwalker]

Wow man - I've been lucky enough to watch a few from the CIVIL war come out of the ground, but you went back 90 more years!! What a cool thing to have and tell your children and grandchildren about! NICE . . .

 

[pepperj]

Great find, and it's cool that you brought your ball out to share a celebration brew.

Bartender goes home and says " Well this man came today to celebrate his one ball"

 

[BigWaveDave]

Love the pics... The best is the two of you at the bar.... classic.