A centuries-old treasure found in Boston came from Italy, but now customs agents are trying to track the route taken to get it here. "It ultimately ended up being a 17th century Venetian swivel gun," C. Shane Campbell from Customs and Border Protection said.

The canon-like weapon wasn't easy to find, it was packed into a piece of heavy equipment. "They had to get out torches and saws, it looks like the arm of an excavator so they had to get into this and buried inside that was the cannon," Campbell said.

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