A SCHOOLBOY from Notts has hit the headlines after unearthing a cannonball in his back garden - which dates back to the Civil War.
Jack Sinclair, 10, of Westgate, Southwell, made the historic discovery after digging a deep hole in his garden, where his father tried to remove a tree root.
His spade hit something hard and with his hands he pulled out the cannonball, which is made of iron, weighs 8lbs and is 33/4 inches in diameter.
The ammunition, which dates back to the 1642-51 conflict, would have been fired from a canon known as a 'saker' during the Civil War, which was battled out between Parliamentarians and Royalists.
Southwell has strong links to the civil war and when father and son took the cannonball to a nearby archeological resource centre historians were able to verify its origin.
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