{"id":1033694,"date":"2022-03-25T02:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-cannonball-found-on-florida-beach-might-be-from-1700s\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T02:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:19:41","slug":"watch-cannonball-found-on-florida-beach-might-be-from-1700s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/watch-cannonball-found-on-florida-beach-might-be-from-1700s\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Cannonball found on Florida beach might be from 1700s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Cannonball-found-on-Florida-beach-might-be-from-1700s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hBzGH02P3nU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man finds cannonball at Vilano Beach\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBzGH02P3nU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Experts said a cannonball found buried on a Florida beach by a treasure hunter could date as far back as the 1700s.<\/p>\n<p>Craig O&#8217;Neal of Ponte Vedra Beach said he found the cannonball buried under about 4 feet of sand while he was using his metal detector along the coast near Vilano Beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neal, fearing the 20-pound cannonball might still contain unexploded powder, contacted police, who disposed of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Meide, an archaeologist with the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeology Maritime Program, told WJXX\/WTLV the cannonball was &#8220;a pretty big shell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meide, who reviewed photos of the mortar shell, said it was most likely from the 1800s, but might date back as far as the 1700s.<\/p>\n<p>The cannonball was discovered a few miles away from the Castillo de San Marcos fort in downtown St. Austine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could have been something fired from the Castillo,&#8221; Meide said. &#8220;There were times when St. Augustine was under siege in the 1700s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meide said the cannonball might also have come from a shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were vessels armed with mortar. So it&#8217;s possible there&#8217;s a vessel that wrecked or lost ordnance somehow,&#8221; Meide said.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24 (UPI) &#8212; Experts said a cannonball found buried on a Florida beach by a treasure hunter could date as far back as the 1700s. Craig O&#8217;Neal of Ponte Vedra Beach said he found the cannonball buried under about 4 feet of sand while he was using his metal detector along the coast near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}