MANSFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - A family in Mansfield discovered a Civil War-era cannonball while cleaning out a home this week, leading to a late-night detonation.
Mansfield Police said family members at a home on Charlene Drive found it while cleaning out the home of their late father, who was an avid antique collector.
Officials called in a State Police Bomb Squad, and an X-ray of the cannonball determined an unknown substance was inside the munition.
Police decided to safely detonate the cannonball at a police department facility around 10 p.m. Thursday night.
The department offered an apology to neighbors for the “late-night noise” in a Facebook post.
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