found this inside a 10" ball

[divedigger]

flushing mud out of this 10" ball and found a peach seed some Civil War joker stuck inside the fuse hole

[Dave the plumber]

that's cool - petrified I guess.     I once pulled whole corncob pieces from a shell that was being used as a paper time fuze adaptor. It was drilled or whittled out  and everything.  Ingenuity when in need....

[pipedreamer65]

LOL, awesome! Carolina peaches no doubt

[redbob]

As the seed inside of the peach pit contains a minute amount of cyanide, maybe he was practicing an early form of chemical warfare.

[CarlS]

Some worker who was loading the shell and too lazy to walk to a refuse can just threw it in shell most likely.  Lazy 5 cent an hour worker!

As with you I'm sure, it has been amazing the variety of 'stuff' that I have washed out of these shells on occasion.

[speedenforcer]

did it still have the original fuse in it or was it open allowing a mischievous child or someone to put it in there at some point in its 150 year existence?

[divedigger]

no fuse and due to its location it was unlikely to be added afterwards