Archaeologists find musket balls and fort linked to the Battle of Bunker Hill

Published in the Wakefield Daily Item on June 19, 2026

BOSTON (AP) — Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument.

Musket balls and other artifacts from one of the American Revolution’s most consequential battles were buried just below their feet the whole time.

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