Cannon Id help

[BerberDagger]

Hi , I would have more info Abaut This cannon ! It s iron 68 cm lenght with 45 kg weight ! Very heavy ! Any comment in origin and use ? Thanks

[Roland_M]

Hi,

i think, this is a Howitzer and of european origin. It is a weapon between a long canon and a mortar. It seems to be an early iron-Howitzer.


Roland

[BerberDagger]

Hi Roland What period in your opinion ?

[CSinTX]

Looks like a line throwing cannon to me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=line+throwing+cannon&biw=1467&bih=723&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiigqWTg4jMAhVHsIMKHf5BBs8Q_AUIBigB#imgr c=_

[Shakethetrees]

Is the inside of the vent threaded? If so I would second the line throwing gun ID.

Also, the trunions appear to be set along the center line of the bore. Most modern cannon, from about c. Mid-18th C. used as weapons had them set lower, almost tangential to the bore.

[ChrisPer]

The form of the reinforce around the trunnions precludes sighting. It is clearly an industrial age product, perhaps designed by patternmakers in a foundry but not by gunmakers, and the shapes suggest mid-later nineteenth century.

I feel that a line-throwing gun is a very good suggestion. There may be catalogue or other documentary evidence of its original purpose.

I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee (http://forum.mlagb.com/YaBB.pl?num=1392291958)

[CSinTX]

I too have an unresolved cannon ID of the period: Evans and Lowe Cannon, Dundee (http://forum.mlagb.com/YaBB.pl?num=1392291958)

Try posting it here. http://www.go2gbo.com/forums/blackpowder-mortar-and-cannon-sponsored-by-seacoast-artillery/

Most active cannon forum I have found.

[broadaxe]

Either a line-throwing or a signal (signal means for most fireworks) cannon, the trunnion arrangement is late, post-industrial revolution era, I guess late 19th century or early 20th.