10/09/2022 Stati Uniti, Rhode Island
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law enforcement agency for assistance”
Scott Barrett-Newport Daily News.
Ryan Miller has an appreciation for history, which is part of the reason he and his wife purchased one of the oldest houses in the city. What he didn’t expect to discover on the property is a cannonball likely used during the Revolutionary War (secessione). “It was quite surprising,” Miller said. “We were kind of keeping our eye out for relics. I had done some metal detection before we started construction and stuff like that, but all I found was old nails. It was nice to find something cooler.” Miller and his wife Monika, who have two children, bought the John Bliss House at 2 Wilbur Ave. about three years ago. The farmhouse was built in 1680 by John Bliss on land deeded to him by his father-in-law, Rhode Island Gov. Benedict Arnold — great-grandfather of the famed defector. One of the Rhode Island’s last remaining stone-enders — a centuries-old architectural style in which one side of the house is made almost entirely of chimney stone. The Millers, who said they “love old houses” and “taking on a project,” have plans to construct a barn behind the house, and a contractor was excavating the yard on Aug. 26 when he noticed something in the dirt — a metal sphere partially covered in rust. Miller contacted the Newport Historical Society, which referred him to the Naval War College Museum as well as the Varnum House Museum in East Greenwich. ‘It’s a piece of history’: A homeowner’s fight to save one of Newport’s oldest buildings “I spoke with some of the historians, and they thought mostly like it was a solid shot, solid metal,” Miller explained. “But there was a slight chance it was a hollow shot that would have been filled with gunpowder.” One of the ways to identify a hollow shot from a solid shot, Miller said, is a cap on the cannonball. If the cap is there, that means it’s a hollow shot. But on this one, rust was covering where the cap normally would be. Not taking any chances, he called the police, who promptly arrived with a bomb squad.
Photo-Source: eu.newportri.com
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