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Archaeologists working at the Alamo in San Antonio have uncovered a second cannonball believed to date from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, found just three months after a separate cannonball was recovered from a neighboring excavation unit at the same site.
The Alamo Trust, the nonprofit that oversees the Alamo Mission, announced the discovery on June 16, two weeks after the artifact was found on June 2.
Because it was recovered at roughly the same depth as the first, researchers believe both projectiles may have lain undisturbed for nearly 190 years.
A Second Find Where One Was Already Remarkable The newly discovered cannonball was unearthed outside the northeast corner of the Alamo Church, in an excavation unit adjacent to where the first cannonball emerged in March.
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