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by **admin** » 27 Apr 2006 15:30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_Meg

by **SCA Archer** » 27 Apr 2006 20:47

She's a beauty. Too bad she cracked.

by **Stunt Weasel** » 27 Apr 2006 20:57

Wow. There's something very powerfully evocative about that cannon even now. It strikes me as odd, the folks milling about it casually as if it weren't there at all in that second photo you posted. I can very easily imagine myself back in time, just looking at it ... the sounds, the heat of the blasts, the whole works. That's a weapon that deserves some respect and fear even today.

Mario

by **Monster Zero** » 27 Apr 2006 21:08

I've always been fascinated by the Big Bore guns...

Cannons and otherwise.

Plan on getting .475 Linebaugh revolver and a .500 Maximum Rifle eventually.

by **admin** » 27 Apr 2006 23:33

I recently saw about 3 other 15thC bombards at Fort Nelson (I stumbled on Fort Nelson by accident on the way to visit Portchester Castle, which incidentally has the longest standing Roman wall in Northern Europe). 2 of these were Turkish and very impressively cast and decorated - though the overall shape wasn't very different to the European ones.

by **Paul** » 28 Apr 2006 06:51

I saw it in Edinburgh a couple of years ago.

Impressive gun, although I think most people don't realise how old it is.

Probably most people think "big gun = must be 17th C. = we have lot's of those = not really interesting".

by **Gerald Cavey** » 02 May 2006 10:17

I rather like this - at the other end of the country at Dover Castle. (1544)

http://www.geocities.com/earlygunnery/dover_1.htm

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'Mons Meg' - A Burgundian bombard c.1449, in Edinburgh

'Mons Meg' - A Burgundian bombard c.1449, in Edinburgh

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