Navy found they didn't match any known cannons used in the Civil War. A cannon encrusted in rust and mud sits inside a warehouse operated by the Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday, April 28, 2022.Īrchaeologists guessed they were possibly leftover relics from a sunken Confederate gunship excavated a few years earlier in the same area, said Andrea Farmer, an archaeologist for the Army Corps of Engineers. A dredge scooping sediment from the riverbed last year as part of a $973 million deepening of Savannah's busy shipping channel surfaced with one the cannons clasped in its metal jaws. The mud- and rust-encrusted guns were discovered by accident. A warehouse along the Savannah River is holding historical treasures that evidence suggests remained lost for more than 240 years - a cache of 19 cannons that researchers suspect came from British ships scuttled to the river bottom during the American Revolution.
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