The "Broad Arrow" mark on this 12-pound iron cannonball signified it as property of the British Board of Ordnance. British guns on land and aboard ships in Boston Harbor "kept an incessant fire" of iron shot and shells on the New England troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill. British Major General John Burgoyne, who witnessed the roar of the guns that day, described it as "one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived."

Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia, PA

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