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Record ID: CPAT-8E3756
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone ball found in garden of Oakfield Cottage, Montgomery, approximately the correct size of shot for a 17th century cannon (a falcon).
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-8E9F32
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone ball found in vegetable plot at The Beeches, Montgomery. Approximately the correct size of shot for a 17th century light cannon. The find spot is on the approximate position of the Royalist form-up line.
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-B944C6
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone ball approximately 140mm in diameter and weighing around 5lbs (2268g). Pecked appearance, very odd stone, grey with lots of white flecking. Not a local stone. It is too heavy for compressed tarmac I think and too well compressed. Found by a workman building a new prison on the site of a former munitions factory. It was apparently found about 1 metre deep in some very black soil below the more modern brick buildings. The same man also has 2 complete stones and 3 halves, one sounds like its made of iron because he describes casting flanges. (Steve Grenter, WCBC, March 2015). …
Created on: Friday 29th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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