Ed
22nd May 2024, 12:00 AM
Some time ago I acquired a cannon that I subsequently mounted on a tripod-like contrivance, viz
https://i.imgur.com/dvmBwHU.jpeg
I used the welded on pivot contrivance as a point of articulation...
https://i.imgur.com/bC7oz1F.jpeg
Generally cannon are mounted using things called trunnions
https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/284/284029-6dc8424805bae1725342a0651e8ca8e8.jpg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/sSkJgN1.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/3InmWw1.jpeg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/ec5eh6Z.jpeg
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/en/view/bsb00020956?page=20,21
https://i.imgur.com/dvmBwHU.jpeg
I used the welded on pivot contrivance as a point of articulation...
https://i.imgur.com/bC7oz1F.jpeg
Generally cannon are mounted using things called trunnions
https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/data/attachments/284/284029-6dc8424805bae1725342a0651e8ca8e8.jpg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/sSkJgN1.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/3InmWw1.jpeg
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.
https://i.imgur.com/ec5eh6Z.jpeg
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/en/view/bsb00020956?page=20,21