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Landscapers Unearth Suspected Civil War Cannonball In Virginia Yard
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By Ben Hooper
April 10 (UPI) -
- Landscapers working in the back yard of a Virginia home made a surprising discovery: a sus- pected cannonball dating from the Civil War.
Jasin Singh, a real estate agent with Innovation Properties, said landscapers were working in the yard of a home on Frederick Street in Staunton when they uncovered what they initially thought to be a strange rock.
"One of them ended up rinsing it off and we saw that it was a metal ball, and as soon
asIsawthatI thought, 'Oh my god, this is a can- nonball,'"
Singh told WHSV- TV.
Singh said he had recently dealt with a similar discovery at another home, so he knew what to do.
"I had something similar actually happen up in Front Royal and sothatiswhyI was kind of bit more familiar with what to kind of do and I am thankful that I have some of that experi- ence," he said.
Staunton Fire & Rescue respond- ed to the home and ended up call- ing Virginia State
Police to cart the suspected explo- sive away.
"We assumed it was a Civil War- era cannonball because it can be very unstable, so we treated it as it was a live ordi- nance," said Perry Weller, deputy chief of communi- ty risk reduction for Staunton Fire & Rescue.
A Jacksonville, Fla., man
was faced with a similar
situation recently when his dog unearthed an object that turned out to be a decades-old mili- tary bomb in his back yard.
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