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« on: January 25, 2015, 12:03:12 AM »
Out on a new permission today, with TheLoveDoc and another mate.

Not much came up, the usual worn copper's and a few buttons, each of us had a modernish type pendant, but the find of the day went to TheLoveDoc ( well done butty ), a first for him and us, a lovely lead cannon ball.

Take a look at this little beauty  Wink

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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2015, 01:57:31 AM »
Nice find.  Bet that made your ears rattle. Shocked


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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2015, 05:10:23 AM »
It gave a cracking signal Val at depth too ....... Good pic Paul im well chuffed with it.  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2015, 08:22:16 AM »
Very nice, i found one a few weeks ago but had impacted on one side, yours looks great  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2015, 10:54:25 AM »
CANNONBALL.....
Nice find wouldn't one of them fired your way..... Shocked
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2015, 03:13:58 PM »
Talking of canon balls, Geoff might know the answer to this.  John put 'The Patriot' on the other night and in one of the battle scenes they showed a cannon ball taking a mans head off.  Would that really have happened ? and what size would it need to be.?



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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2015, 03:26:28 PM »
yes val thats very possible , be a tad messy also .
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2015, 03:32:54 PM »
Quote from: Val Beechey on January 25, 2015, 03:13:58 PM
Talking of canon balls, Geoff might know the answer to this.  John put 'The Patriot' on the other night and in one of the battle scenes they showed a cannon ball taking a mans head off.  Would that really have happened ? and what size would it need to be.?



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Val even the exit wound of a bullet would get the job half done Undecided
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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2015, 04:08:16 PM »
Yes Val and there are many documented accounts of "bits" being taken off by not only cannon balls but early musket shot as well, there are writings by a surgeon with the Royalist army during the English civil war where he describes how many injuries are caused not by shot but by flying bone fragments from people around them Undecided
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2015, 05:37:42 PM »
All I can say is URGH sounds disgusting.   I can't imagine what it must have been like for those in the front lines knowing they were just sacrificial.   Seems like they just lined them up to blast hell out of each other till no one was left and last man standing was the winner.
A lot to be said for todays drones and laser technology. 

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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2015, 07:47:56 PM »
Great find......just wondering was it found up your neck off the woods Huh
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2015, 07:57:21 PM »
No Nobby..... nowhere near where I live ......unfortunately .
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2015, 09:13:45 PM »
Congratulations on cannon ball find.I also found one the same not far from Pembroke Castle,I would like to show my finds but don't understand how to do it,I am one of the old school and just can't get the hang of it!!!😟!!!
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2015, 07:31:38 PM »
Hi Chef Geoff,very interesting comments regarding the damage a cannon ball/large musket ball can do and the catastrophic damage they can do   .On a personal basis I am very interested in the English civil war,and was wonndering where I could get a copy of theRoyalist factual accounts of battles.I am not a ghoul but as I live quite near to Pembroke Castle an have found such a cannon ball the more I read about these conflicts the more I realise just how horrific it all must have been,any information would be very much appreciated.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2015, 08:25:26 PM »
Not sure if you could buy a copy but I used to read it in Bristol reference library it was "The collected letters of Dr William Harvey" and if your venturing to a library then the different volumes of books "The English Civil War: : A Contemporary Account" by Edward Razzell make interesting reading as does "Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson" by Lucy Hutchinson
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