The copper allow cannon is estimated to weigh about 60 lbs.
Posted on 09/29/2023 4:54:10 AM PDT by marktwain
The earliest known example of a European cannon was found off the coast of Sweden, near Marstrand, in 2001. The discovery and the age of the artifact have been recently revealed. Handheld guns, known as hand cannon, have been discovered from about the same era.
Military technology has high incentives and travels fast. While mentions of European uses of gunpowder and guns have been found in documents from the early 1300s, remains of actual cannons have been missing. The fourteenth century extends from 1300 to 1399. From tandfonline.com:
There are a number of fourteenth-century references that record the use of cannon on ships but they rarely, if ever, provide any concrete details.Footnote32 One particular reference illustrates well the difficulties in interpreting these early guns Work carried out between 1337 and 1338 on an English vessel, the All Hallow’s Cog, included ‘a certain iron instrument for firing quarrels [. . .] and lead pellets, with powder, for the defence of the ship’.Footnote33 We know nothing about the form or size of this ‘instrument’ except that it was made of iron and fired quarrels, that is, large arrows. That early artillery pieces fired arrows is well attested by both documentary evidence and illustrations, such as the cannon depicted in the manuscript De Nobilitatibus, Sapientiis, et Prudentiis RegumFootnote34 and the associated volume Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum SecretorumFootnote35 of around 1326-27, commonly referred to as the Milemete manuscripts.
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The copper allow cannon is estimated to weigh about 60 lbs.
Looks like the breech block of a breech loading swivel gun.
The ruler in the picture looks older than the cannon.
The ATF has already formulated a rule outlawing this “dangerous assault weapon”. Only a coat of flat black paint could make it more illegal and leathal!
allow should be alloy...
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