Alamo Cannonballs Emerge Nearly Two Centuries After the Famous Battle

San Antonio, Texas Archaeologists uncovered a cannonball that may have been fired during the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, just three months after another such rare discovery.

According to The Alamo Trust, the nonprofit organization that oversees the Alamo Mission, the ordnance was found outside the northeast corner of the Alamo Church, adjacent to the excavation area that another intact cannonball was unearthed in March.

In a press release, Director of Archaeology at the Alamo Tiffany Lindley said that they have likely lain undisturbed for the past 190 years. "Whenever they were dropped, the very first time, possibly in 1836...they haven't been touched since. And that's what makes them extra special," Lindley said.

"It was amazing to find one cannonball, and then to follow it up a couple of months later with a second was quite surprising."

The latest cannonball "isn't as well-preserved as the first due to the type of metal," Lindley added. The first one is solid bronze, while the second one is made from solid iron.

"However, it's still in pretty good condition. We are hoping to send both artifacts off for conservation."