Cast Iron Cannon Ball - Whole

Complete cannon ball 6 pound solid shot. "The Battery was not only a place where cannon were kept and fired on various occasions but it was also shelled by the British in 1775 in the preliminary hostilities that led up to the Revolutionary War... [Another] larger (4.9 kilograms), cannon ball was found in Cat. 16196.380 (ET 5), in the Peter Minuit Plaza area, near Whitehall Slip." (page 6-53, Chapter 6.E.2. WHS B of SFTP report, 2012).

• Object number

  6

• Dimensions

  Weight 2505 gr

• Animals/objects

  Cannon Ball

• Category

  Arms

• Class

  Metal

• Material

  Iron

• Context

  1439- South Ferry - Whitehall Slip 15598.025

• Techniques

  Cast