"I Dug This Up While On Holiday In Devon, UK. Only The Protruding Cylindrical Part Was Visible And It Was Found ~7m Up A Sand Dune. It Is Solid Metal (Most Likely Iron) And Roughly A Metre In Length. It Didn’t Seem Hollow And Was Unbelievably Heavy. Any Ideas?"
"With a trunnion on each side, it looks like a small cannon."
Looking back at older posts, it's been this way for a while.
Now it's going to bug me.
#19 often seen in old cartoons like Tom and Jerry. :-)