Hayes Lowe
Cannon
Mon Apr 2 20:23:37 2001


Cowdog,

Please see my new thread posted with more info back on the current first page.

To answer some of your questions:

No handles.

No band.

No welding, all cast.

This is an unfinished piece, with the barrel not drilled, we don't know if rifling was in the plan or not. Vent is cast-in, but not drilled through.

Confederate Mountain Howitzers came with bores as small as 2.25". But this gun is even smaller than a common Mountain Howitzer. 1.5" was a common bore size on civil war cannons, but only for breach loaders, as far as I've found so far. We also don't know for certain that the bore was intended to stay at 1.5" on this gun. It could have been intended to be bored to 2.25".

No markings are visable.







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