Name/Title
CannonEntry/Object ID
90.39.1Description
The cannon has a cast-iron tube 24 inches long, with bore approximately 1-5/8 inches. There is a heavy cascabel at the breech and a pronounced muzzle swell of short-radius semicircular profile. The trunnions, which are cast integral with the tube, are on the center line, and there is a cast pan for a priming charge and a rudimentary ring-shaped reinforce.
The tube is mounted in a small wooden field carriage, 26 1/2 inches long, with wooden wheels 15 3/4 inches in diameter. Hubs, spokes and felloes are all wood; there are thin iron reinforcing bands on both sides of each hub, and thin iron tires that have been forge welded into a continuous circle. One cheek of the carriage has been broken long ago and reinforced with an iron strap bolted on.
The tube is a sand casting, showing a definite mold separation line parallel with the bore, running forward from the flash pan. The interior, now eroded, shows no evidence of having been bored after casting.Collection
Genesee Country Village and Museum