I hope it doesnt stop the rebuilding for long as the project seems to be already going slowly.
I have a sort of connection as my GG Father was an Officer on the HVN Cerbrus when it was berthed at Williamstown as part of the Victorian Navy.
The hulk is unfortunately rotting away on the other side of the bay at Black Rock
Cannonballs unearthed at cricket ground
Goya Dmytryshchak
July 20, 2011 .
CANNONBALLS thought to date from about 1858 have been unearthed at Williamstown Cricket Ground in what could be a nationwide first.
Industrial X-rays will be conducted to determine if the balls are hollow, which would make them the only ''case-shots'' recovered from an archaeological site in Australia. About eight balls were discovered during an excavation of an artillery battery thought to be Victoria's oldest defence system.
Archaeologists have been at the cricket ground since the discovery of a military bunker in January when an underground rainwater tank was being installed for the club's $8 million expansion.
Three more underground chambers were later found beneath the floor of the pavilion.
Forensic technician Henry Huggins, a retired crime scene examiner, said the balls weighed 22 and 30 kilograms. ''We've weighed these and some of them are 30 kilograms, but some of them are about a third lighter, which suggests they are case-shot, which is a case of cast iron and inside will be a black powder charge and a number of shot-balls, with a fuse, and the idea is they fire that and after a period of time it will explode.''
GOYA DMYTRYSHCHAK
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