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Ed Chatterton

Fishermen Discover 19th-century Military Cannon In river

Fishermen have discovered a 19th-century military cannon in a river in Sheffield. STEVE FORREST AND GLEN COLLINS. SWNS.

A group of magnet fishers were left stunned after pulling a Royal Navy CANNON dating back to the 19th Century out of a river – in one of the first discoveries of its kind. Six members of The Peaky Dippers spent several hours scouring the River Don, in Sheffield, after hearing stories about wartime artillery being dumped there.

 

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