Brighton Marina Site. Likely to be from a French Warship of ...

Estimate

£600 - £900

Brighton Marina Site. Likely to be from a French Warship of the Early 15th century A Tudor period gun chamber that once formed part of the Royal Armouries collection With a bore of approximately 100mm. 60cm long. Made of iron which was locally available and much cheaper than imported copper. These chambers were made by heating and hammering billets of iron in a blacksmith’s forge to form long staves of iron laid side by side to form a tube. Bands of iron were bent and welded and these were positioned over the tube whilst still hot. As the metal cooled, the bands shrank, pushing the staves together. On The Mary Rose inventories two chambers were listed for each gun, re-loading these guns was much faster than reloading the bronze guns. Brighton Marina (No longer designated but designated at the time of acquisition) - The wrecksite covers an area of seabed from which four guns including one rare bronze haquebut , stone cannonballs, wrought iron breach chambers, wooden tompions and other material that indicate the possible remains of a vessel believed to date to the early sixteenth century. A Bronze Minion gun is preserved at Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Of the two banded, wrought iron cannon recovered from the site, one is on display in Charlestown and one is believed to be in Essex.