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Bronze breech-loading swivel-gun with the A-VOC cipher. It lacks the breech-block which would have contained the powder charge. The piece would have fired a 4-pound solid iron shot or, more probabl ...
SC 1312979
Description Bronze breech-loading swivel-gun with the A-VOC cipher. It lacks the breech-block which would have contained the powder charge. The piece would have fired a 4-pound solid iron shot or, more probably, containers filled with lead shot or iron scrap. Scale in inches and centimetres.
Date 1974
Collection Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
Catalogue Number SC 1312979
Category On-line Digital Images
Accession Number 2012/89
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1312979
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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