A fellow I know was digging years ago at an old, former military site and dug 2 of these big iron triangles, and he kindly gifted me this one. One of the triangles had the bottom layer of 8" balls still intact (9 of the 10 anyway). I guess they sunk down in the ground and the soldiers were too lazy to dig them up so they left them along with these triangles. Makes sense they used something like these to keep their cannon ball pyramids from collapsing. Here is one 8" ball I had, but it will require 20! Fortunately, I have a few more here and aplenty in the process of electrolysis so when they are all done and hauled back this will be one heck of a stack.