Armory of a 1600-1622 sunken ship wreck in river Elbe near Hamburg

fernando · 15th November 2012, 02:13 PM

Great reconstruction and great pictures. Thanks a lot for sharing

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It looks to my humbles eyes, as also judging by the context that, the rope reinforcement of the cannon, was actualy mechanicaly twisted iron that was after applied to the muzzle.
I don't know whether to be more amazed with the bending of the aquebus barrels or with their extremely long length.
With less dimension but also noteworthy (to me

) are the iron nails. It looks like the technique of making them the was the same until just the other day. I was given a dozen of nails recuperated from old houses ceiling oak beams, probably from the XIX century, that have precisely the same aspect.

15th November 2012, 02:13 PM	#5
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Great reconstruction and great pictures. Thanks a lot for sharing . It looks to my humbles eyes, as also judging by the context that, the rope reinforcement of the cannon, was actualy mechanicaly twisted iron that was after applied to the muzzle. I don't know whether to be more amazed with the bending of the aquebus barrels or with their extremely long length. With less dimension but also noteworthy (to me ) are the iron nails. It looks like the technique of making them the was the same until just the other day. I was given a dozen of nails recuperated from old houses ceiling oak beams, probably from the XIX century, that have precisely the same aspect.