Large Cannon Ball
Large solid cast iron cannon ball.
The French introduced the cast iron cannonball some time after 1450 and its impact was huge as it had the capacity to destroy traditional English fortifications to rubble. These early cannons had a tubular body which was cast in a single piece and used round cannonballs made of stone but with advances in gunpowder the cannonballs were soon made of cast iron.
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Cannon ball found amongst scrap metal at Saxey's foundry.
A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a large-caliber gun is also called a cannonball.
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