By Paul Guzzo
From Tampa Bay Times
Florida―It initially seemed like a child’s treasure-hunting tale.
Aaron Defaria’s kids would bring him what they called diamonds, dug out of the shell-and-rock driveway at their Seffner home.
But he thought they were just shiny rocks, chalked it up to childhood imagination and thought little of it.
Then, as the driveway’s shell and rock loosened over the years, his kids began finding more of the shiny objects, and also what looked like tiny stone and iron cannonballs.
Dozens of them.
Defaria asked his amateur historian uncle, Gary Cananzey, to have a look….