03-14-2012, 07:41 AM
tetters Wrote:The ball at the top is decorative for lack of a better term.
I wonder if the ball at the top was the insulator for a lightning rod. Many older structures dating from the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially barns and homes, had lighting rods.
Here's an example on a Victorian farmhouse not far from my home:
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Link to google street view:
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Andrew