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Originally Posted by Dmitry
The shape of this ball could also be a result of poor casting.
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In support of the above comment, I have a cannonball recovered off private land at the site of the
Battle of San Pasqual, and it too is deformed.
It is not nearly as big as the one above, at a little under 3 inches... possibly used by the Sutter Gun, a provincial small 4-pounder. Shot produced in frontier California tended to be of a lessor quality than what the Dragoons likely would have brought as part of their ordinance.
Anyway, as shown from two perspectives orthogonal to one another - you can see it is still (more or less) "in the round" when viewed from the top-down, but when viewed from the side, well, it's kind of ovoid...
