Guys I hope it is okay to ask a question about a cannon ball in the forum. I posted a thread about this a year or so ago when I first joined and you guys provided some very good information about the relic I found when I was a kid. I cannot find the original thread though and so I apologize for asking about this again.
I have a fragment of a hollow cannon ball. Found it a couple hundred yards from the ocean seashore in Lewes Delaware in 1970 - I was 14. You guys helped me figure the size this ball would have been whole from a drawing I made tracing the curve of this fragment. My question is am I right that you told me the fact that the ball was hollow does not make it necessarily English or from a Howitzer? The town of Lewes was bombarded by the British during the war of 1812 and many times before that by French pirate ships. My relic is from one of those attacks without question but I am curious if the hollow ball means it was from a Howitzer cannon? I guess with pirates around the ball could have been fired from them after they had stolen the ship and its hardware so to say it is from the English might be difficult. I made a video of this fragment years ago and can try to post it in this thread if it will help anyone comment on it.
