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Old 23rd December 2012, 03:19 PM   #1
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Question A cannonball ... a pommel ... or what ?

I have tried hard to take explicit pictures of this thing.
It came as a cannonball, one of those for grapeshot (diameter 4 cms. weight 280 grams).
But i don't know. To start, i wouldn't know that grapeshot balls could have a special shape.
This one has eight faces ... as if it were a pommel for a (sturdy) sword. But apart from a little (tooled) mark in one of the ends, i can find no traces of it being perforated to lodge a tang.
Any ideas Gentlemen ?
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