Foxnews is reporting the fascinating story about the recent discovery of a 2,500 pound cannon that was pulled up from the ocean floor off the coast of North Carolina.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — State underwater archaeologists on Monday raised a cannon from a sunken ship that could have belonged to the pirate Blackbeard. The roughly 8-foot-long cannon weighs about 2,500 pounds and was pulled from an ongoing excavation at the presumed site of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Fay Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Cultural Resources, said the crew finished bringing it to the surface early Monday afternoon. The cannon will be on display Wednesday at the N.C. Maritime Museum expansion site at Gallants Channel in Beaufort. Historians believe Blackbeard’s ship — the Queen Anne’s Revenge — ran aground in Beaufort Inlet in June 1718.

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