Keeping on the cannon path

[fernando]

I am deeply enjoying this new acquisition .
Having being orientated for its purchase by an expert fellow member ( ), no wonder this is the real good stuff ... excelent stuff, if you don't mind.
The bore is 21 mm. Have not yet checked if it is tapering to the breech; will have to find some kind of stick to verify that.
The total length, as it is now, is 43 cms. The weight is 2,935 Kg.
The seller dated if from circa 1400 but our expert fellow member ( )corrected it to circa 1450.
Typical early rought iron; you can even discern the welded junction of the reinforcement rings.
Amazingly the touch hole is not in perfect alignment with the tail square section; however the difference is not such as to let us think that the touch hole is deliberatly deviated to the (right) side, which i read it happens some times.
A pity that its iron tiller/tail is broken, or deliberately cut off (?).
Who knows one day i come across a similar specimen in its complete status; then the tail secret would be revealed.
Say Michael ( ), is there any chance that the tail has always been like it is now, to be lodged into a shaft, or some other device?
... And, don't hit me too hard for all the nonsense .
Fernando

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