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26th October 2008, 04:25 PM
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Clay Grenades of the Thirty Years War
Instead of attaching these, I twice enclosed the picture of the cut open fuse.
Next to the two big gray clay grenades there is the small cast iron hand grenade that I posted above. There is an interesting story to the clay grenades. Hundreds of them were discovered in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt in May 1983 when a subterraneous garage was built. The grenades were found alongside the old town wall stored on boards covered with straw, all perfectly preserved in the clay ground - see b/w photos. As they weigh about 4 kilos each I would not refer to them as hand grenades. Being kept ready and primed along the town wall rather indicates that they were lit and just dropped to explode among the besiegers. Michael |
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2nd November 2008, 01:13 AM
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More clay grenades of the Thirty Years War, all dug up in Ingolstadt.
I found these pictures on Ebay in November 2007; one image even shows the actual weight of a (comparatively small) grenade: 2,873 kilograms. Some of them were heavily damaged, probably due to the crude teeth of the dredgers. The fuses are all gone and I doubt whether they had retained their 'fillings' ... Michael |
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3rd November 2008, 03:21 PM
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Incendiary arrows in the Nuremberg castle
Mid 15th century.
They were analyzed and X-rayed a few years ago. The substances of the incendiary mass were found to be almost the same as in the Swiss arrows in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zurich (see my earlier post), with the exception that the outer layer of the Nuremberg arrows is made of tissue. Mchael |
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13th November 2008, 12:40 PM
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Another quoit
Offered by an Italian auction house in June 2008.
Although the estimate was relatively low I think it failed to sell. Michael |
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15th November 2008, 02:20 PM
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Clay grenades in the Veste (castle) Oberhaus, Passau, Eastern Bavaria
17th century, smaller and of much lighter weight than the ones dug up in Ingolstadt.
A huge iron throwing ball for a catapult above and a pair of mid 16th century miniature cannon below. Michael |
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4th January 2012, 06:35 PM
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Back to incediary arrows:
Their making, from an Alamannic ow Swiss manuscript, ca. 1430. m |
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7th January 2012, 01:57 PM
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Pechkränze
Hi,
in this year there was a great market at the Feste Coburg (Bavaria) and there a couple of people showed military fireworks in late medieval times. Also Pechkränze an lighting bags. I put here some photos of manuscript copies, which i tokk there. Remarkable were the shooting parts which were inserted in these light balls, so that anyone who will put out the Fire is in danger to be shot. They are fabricated out of a simple tube with powder and one (maybe two lead Balls) on top and will fire when the fire inside the Pechkranz will reach them. The guy made also a book about this topic and it is german and english. It called "Die Macht des Feuers" ISBN 978-3-87472-089-2 |
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