Mysterious appearance of a cannonball
Emma Knight was mystified when she found an "impostor" in her collection of stones she keeps in her bathroom at home home in Dorrington.
Among the stones she picks up on her travels Emma found what has been identified as a 16th century cannonball.
The ammunition, much smaller that the usual cannonball, would have been fired from a Falconette, a light cannon, popular in the English Civil War.
Emma says she has asked all her family and friends if they are responsible for leaving it in her home to no avail.
During times of unrest the Falconettes - described as oversized muskets on wheels - were used by the nobility to defend their homes.
"I used to live near Hopton Castle and I could understand if it I had found it there she said. But there are no links between Dorrington and the civil war as far as I know."
Hopton Castle was besieged in a notorious battle in the civil war when Royalists attacked the home of parliamentarian, Robert Wallop.
"How the cannonball simply appeared on the windowsill I have absolutely no idea," she said.
