Magnet fishers have found cannon in river in what's believed to be UK first

Yorkshire Post 2023-08-20

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Two magnet fishers have pulled out a cannon from a river in what is believed to be the first discovery of its kind in the UK.

Dave Sonik Jordan, 46, and Raymond Harper, 73, latched onto the artillery piece while magnet fishing - which is where people use magnets to pull treasure out of water.

It took the pair, who have been fishing together for ten years, over an hour to get the 3ft (91cm) object out of the River Don in Sheffield, South Yorks,

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