22nd May 2024, 01:00 AM | #1 |
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Mounting an early cannon
Some time ago I acquired a cannon that I subsequently mounted on a tripod-like contrivance, viz
I used the welded on pivot contrivance as a point of articulation... Generally cannon are mounted using things called trunnions Mine has no trunnions so I sort of assumed that it would not be mounted on a carriage per se. Now recently I was perusing the Zeugbuch Kaiser Maximilian (Book of armaments which is worth a gander). I knew there were examples that resembled my cannon but, for reasons lost in the mists of time, I never paid much attention. That is mine and they mounted it on a carriage. Note that the pin affixing it to the carriage is below the body of the weapon. Now generally, elevation adjustment is accomplished by use of a qizmo that lifts the rear of the cannon. Here no vertical movement is possible. How did they aim it? Damn odd. BTW this book definitively establishes a terminus ante quem of ~1500 for this type of cannon. I have no problem dating it at ca. 1500. Book of armaments ... https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/e...956?page=20,21 |
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