"It could be extremely dangerous," said Amanda Corman, park ranger and curator at the Kennestone Mountain National Battlefield Park Museum. "Any kind of shift may cause it to go off. It may not. But it's better to be safe than sorry," Corman said, who tells FOX 5 that a 150-year-old cannonball can be volatile if placed near heat, or moved with the right amount of pressure.
really? its 2" in diameter compared to the 2x4 behind it, not looking like a fuse, and any kind of shift can make it go off, and she is a curator at a CW museum. Hope her lectures don't spend too much time on describing the evil red coats when they attacked