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General view
SC 460266
Description General view
Catalogue Number SC 460266
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 56501
Scope and Content Mons Meg, Edinburgh Castle Mons Meg is a bombard or siege gun. It was built in France in 1449, for Philip, Duke of Burgundy, who gave it and another bombard to his nephew James II in 1457. James was later killed by a similar gun which exploded during the siege of Roxburgh in 1460. The construction of Mons Meg was an amazing feat for the time. It is built out of wrought-iron bars welded over a wooden cylinder. The breech chamber was made separately and fitted to the barrel. In 1681 Mons Meg burst, but it was later repaired. Mons Meg could fire a 500 pound stone almost two miles, but it was heavy and unwieldy to move. It is recorded that it took over 100 men and many oxen to move it, and the wheels had to be greased with butter from Orkney! Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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