@@j.schmittler4905 There are absolutely ZERO scratches on it from cleaning the cannon that was done. The cannon was buried in the dirt and had roots growing throughout it. I contacted several museums and firearms experts prior to cleaning it up. The expert consensus was that a soft bristle toothbrush and a few diluted drops of liquid Dawn soap with warm water would not do anything to harm the cannon... Especially after being exposed to the outside elements for years. After the cannon was dry I applied a liberal coating of preservative gun oil inside and out. The cannon is now museum clean and will be on display at the GAR MUSEUM in the Steamtown Mall in Scranton Pennsylvania later this year
Hi Dave, It's a swivel gun - used as an area denial weapon on old ships. Identify the marking around the touch hole and put it in the video description area. Quite a find. Good job.
@@castelloedaniel lol it's actually sitting on display on top of two surplus WW2 US Army packed silk parachutes in my living room. The cannon will never go outside on display during my lifetime. Looking for a carpenter to build a carriage or mount for it.
This looks a lot like a little cannon I know, it might be a "Lyle Gun" a line throwing cannon for ships and lifesaving. It has no trunnions, similar to the Lyle gun I am familiar with and is of similar size and bore.
I boughtva cannon that an engineer found in Louisiana while working for Chevron Oil. He never shot vital but I did. Near as we can tell it came from the battle of New Orleans.
@@farmer9180 We bought the house and property from an estate sale. The previous owner was a tiny thin frail 94 year old woman. I doubt she ever knew it was there or if she did know about the cannon she was not in a position to do anything with it. The cannon was also sitting directly next to an overgrown tree under a bunch of broken limbs. We also live by the river and all of the soil in my neighborhood is soft and loose.
Looks like a signal cannon to me if your place is not far from coast could be what it is. Still better than the old horse shoes and nails I found on the old farm I bought a few years back. But my neighbors tell me to plow the area near my creek, heavy Indian activity once in the area where I live
@@bullboo1 I have never heard that before but I will do that. I can’t tell you how many arrow heads and even an axe I found when a kid at a hunting camp that was once known to be a large Indian village on the flint river. My dad would take me down there right after they plowed the fields and I probably had close to a five gallon bucket full in two years, when he divorced his then wife ( not my mom) that Bxxxxx tossed all of them! I was only like 12 but i was so mad, even more mad now that I am old.
@@VaderisOne On public lands it is illegal to pick up Indian/Native/First Nation Artifacts. However on private lands it is allowed so leave a gift like an old copper penny or tobacco. Just appeasement and replacement of the item in both the physical and spirit realm. Here in Texas we have *sshats plundering new sites some the oldest in the Nation destroying sites and valuable information on movements as certain stones from other areas made it here from far away.
Dave, don’t try cleaning it yourself or polishing it without talking to a professional about this canon. You might ruin a great deal of its value if you do. Talk to Alex Cranmer from International Military Antiques, they’re in Gillette New Jersey. They’ll be able to help you figure exactly what you have.
I actually tried doing that immediately afterwards...No luck and his staff said not interested. I called a few other places and asked at our local gun shop. Best answer I could get was mild dish soap and water to remove the heavy dirt and then a liberal coat of non-corrosive gun oil to preserve. I used soft plastic brushes and towels. It now sits atop two surplus packed WW2 parachutes inside my house as a prized conversation piece. I am planning to build a carriage based upon the "Come and Take It!" cannon in Gonzales Texas. Their cannon very closely resembles the one I found.
You are a smart man everybody else puts these comments as a yard ornament they don't realize that's a piece of history there you don't let it ride anymore than what it did they already did its job
for the size... its likely a sounding Canon or morter... the metal shows banding like its cast iron... some feracloride would reveal old stamping marks and such... typically sounding canons were buried with ships logs and other memorial items.
There were many picket forts built during the founding of the country.A short style cannon would’ve been commonly used for in a fort for protection against Indian attacks but they were also used on ships where there would be closed quarters.A cannon small enough for transport on and off ships.Im sure if you look at old illustrations of 60 lbs cannons you’ll get a better idea of what style base was used.
It’s a late 19th century signal cannon, used to acknowledge or draw attention to signals. Very unlikely to be a swivel gun as the bore is too narrow and it has no pivot point.
If you live in Rhode Island in the Warwick area there is a known area there during the revolution where a farmer had a cannon that would be fired as a warning that the British were coming up the bay to Providence Rhode Island... What if you live somewhere else then maybe something similar was done there Small cannons were used to alert the local town that British troops were inbound this was not a combat piece but the same thing is a loud Bell !
oh... just saw some script on the barrel like proof marks... so.. do this... take some talc or baby powder an let run down the side... the talc will settle in the shallow depression of the stamping... I had to do this for a 5-piece 1700's anvil... the stamps were not very deep back then... the metal should have rusted uniformly so the stamps r there... u just need contrast yo see them.
actually ya I am... own a metal recreation studio of historical items specifically viking age and cival war era. my shop was involved with several other shops consulting on materials science. held several burial viking swords... had many meetings with regiments about fabrication of cannon repair... countless demos and tv appearces... turned down several opportunities to work on movies... hung out with other masters that forged the ulfburt sword.. should I go on?!?! -.- as a 30yr master bladesmith I know nothing... and many useless things... metal weapons is not one of those ;p
Look around the muzzle for a date, Number and letters like L.M.F. to see if it is a Lyle Gun. Then again it could be a non-named manufactured ling throwing gun like a Lyle Gun which can be utilized like a swivel gun to throw rope to another ship or save a life. Seems to short to be an area denial swivel gun like a foot or more to short. Signal canon most likely and a nice thick strong one. Some of these better guns run 1000-8000 at auction. Don't clean or polish it.
The cannon is what would have been strapped onto the base board of a hand cart esque type carriage called a Galloper, which is a single ridden horse drawn. Gallopers were always short barrelled Robinette (1.5 inch) calibre and date back to the 1600's to 1700's. Issued to militias, the ammunition was gravel, rocks, etc. (basically, it's a giant shotgun). Sometime, 3 of these would be strapped to the carriage and referred to as a Battery gun. Both Gallopers & Battery guns were fairly common during the 30 Years War & English Civil War. They were also used by early British colonists to the Americas for defence against the indigenous population (and the French). You can buy 1/72 scale wargaming models of these gun as they would have looked, back in their day.
With a 1 1/2” bore, that would most likely make it a one pounder. So a round cannon ball that diameter would weigh approximately one pound. They made cannons in a multitude of lengths. The problem I see with that is it is missing trunnions, which are the metal pieces that come out of the sides, or is attached to the middle bottom, which is how it is attached the gun frame or carriage. As other people have asked, a detailed look for markings is needed. No real cannon would be made without something on it.
I think they called it Cannon Hill in Rhode Island in the Warwick area but the cannon was allegedly buried in a long trench and it was never found on the property it is probably still buried there but if you live in Warwick you may have located the can especially if you're up there on that hillside very close to route 2 and next to a large stop & Shop shopping center where route 2 and route 3 intersect...
The way he was digging around it I think he thought there was a ship underneath it. I would have had this thing out of the ground within the first 5 minutes of this video. He's either stringing people along making a longer video or he needed the exercise!! Ridiculous!!
@@ralphciancio1721Hi Ridiculous Ralph, Maybe there is an underlying reason for the length of the video you are not considering. I'm actually physically disabled and am very limited by the physical activity I can do. My daughter Paige (helping me) is severely epilepiltic and can not become overstimulated or she will have a seizure. I started recognizing the importance of what we had discovered and had to carefully document the find while not injuring myself or giving my kid a fatal seizure while removing the cannon. Trying NOT to kill my daughter and my own physical limitations are why the video took so long to make. I hope this puts the context of the video into a better perspective and you can grow as a person to see things differently.
Interesting but I can't imagine how you'd fire this thing. Also, is it odd that it's cast iron? Looking forward to hearing more on your find - pretty interesting!
Thanks...yup it is cast iron. Someone just suggested to look on the muzzle for markings. I will be making a video for that and building a carriage for it. Checkout the "come and take it cannon" in Gonzales Texas. This one is nearly identical
@@davebliler7555 What state do you live in? That might give the viewers some help in helping you identify it. Civil War, Naval, etc. Maybe it's just a replica for exhibitions and such.
Bore looks approximately 35-40mm? Trivia: during the privateer wars of early America & bad ole Britian, war booty was auctioned off, Except cannon, small arms, including sabres. These useful weapons suddenly became the valued property of the victor only. You might have purchased and old sea captains house ???
HELLO FROM YOUR OTHER CHANNEL! I got your invite. As a history buff, I'm curious to know more. You say you bought a house, can you say what State is this in? You said Its hard to see, did you figure out what the casting marks are?
Hello and welcome to my side project channel... found the cannon in Pennsylvania about 250 yards from the bank of the Lackawanna River. Working on a follow up video now
I was waiting to see when that was going to come up. Doesn't look brass. There may be a lot of roots around it, but the ground doesn't seem hard enough to be 200-300 yrs. of weathered earth.
how i found this video i don't know . but glad i did .. trunnions are the pegs sticking out of the side of the canon to better aim the canon .. trunnions were first used in the early 1500 . your canon doesn't have trunnions .. maybe your canon is a reproduction or a 1400 canon or older ,, totally cool
The cannon look to be the type used by 40 foot John boats from the War of 1812,The Joshua Barney fleet had them,and the little fleets in the northeast had them too.Read the book, "If by sea", it's one of the best books I've ever read and details many small fleet battles between the Americans and British, particularly in the New England area.Read anything by Donald G. Shomette about the Joshua Barney Flotilla in actions on the Patuxent River in the Chesapeake Bay.
That metal detector probably wouldn't go deep enough to find anything that would have been buried beneath the canon. If it were being used as a marker for something someone might have stashed they would have buried the stash deep like four to eight feet down. Most detectors only go a foot to about 18 inches max . Just saying. I'd have definitely dug a deep whole there just out of curiosity.
Sometimes, retreating soldiers would have to abandon cannons if a more powerful adversary was in hot pursuit. In this case, it wasn't unusual for the gun crews to use hammers to knock off the iron trunnions. This was done to prevent an adversary from immediately reusing the cannon against them. US Civil War examples exist, such as the 32-pounder cast-iron cannon found at Quantico, VA, when the original parking lot at Liversledge Hall was built long before WW II. CSA troops abandoned this cannon after knocking off the trunnions with sledge hammers. Then, they buried the weapon before retreating toward Fredericksburg in January 1862, probably in hopes of retrieving it at a later date. This weapon is currently displayed outside Gerneral Officer quarters on the USMC base. Perhaps this is why the cannon in the video lacks trunnions. j
DANKE DANKE! Wunderbar! Mein Opa ist Pennsylvania Deutsch undt spreken Deutsch to me as a kind...lol hopefully I said the correct. Thanks for the great comment! I am working on a follow up video and more
I think its legit..Ive dug thousands of iron artifacts from the earth and if its in some kind of sandy soils it wouldnt rust much because of good drainage
Captain Obvious .."it's a cannon", "so I found a cannon", "it a real cannon", "I can't believe I found a cannon". ..ugh the pain is real listening say cannon. All the while I thought it was a squirt gun. ..
Ugh. Your seriously cringe. A karennof high degree. In your life no one you know will ever find a frak8n cannon . Most people you know have never seen a Canon. Sheeze . Try going out doors some time
JUUZZZUS JUST PULL IT OUTTA THA GROUND FOR GOD SAKE
Absolutely scratched the piss out of a relic "buried" an inch beneath the surface.
@@j.schmittler4905 There are absolutely ZERO scratches on it from cleaning the cannon that was done.
The cannon was buried in the dirt and had roots growing throughout it.
I contacted several museums and firearms experts prior to cleaning it up.
The expert consensus was that a soft bristle toothbrush and a few diluted drops of liquid Dawn soap with warm water would not do anything to harm the cannon... Especially after being exposed to the outside elements for years.
After the cannon was dry I applied a liberal coating of preservative gun oil inside and out.
The cannon is now museum clean and will be on display at the GAR MUSEUM in the Steamtown Mall in Scranton Pennsylvania later this year
Hi Dave, It's a swivel gun - used as an area denial weapon on old ships. Identify the marking around the touch hole and put it in the video description area. Quite a find. Good job.
Thats a ship rail cannon!
Make a yard ornament out of it with a sign that says Trespassers will be Cannonized.
Makes a good music for history and then get paid for it while it sits in the museum that's what I would do it rather than make it a yard ornament
@@castelloedaniel lol it's actually sitting on display on top of two surplus WW2 US Army packed silk parachutes in my living room.
The cannon will never go outside on display during my lifetime.
Looking for a carpenter to build a carriage or mount for it.
To much scratching and rubbing for me to take this seriously
Was my first thought also. 1 min. Into video
Everything he says sounds suspect! He bought two lots but can't talk about it! 🥴😂
It might be A battle field with Gold silver and more artefact
This looks a lot like a little cannon I know, it might be a "Lyle Gun" a line throwing cannon for ships and lifesaving. It has no trunnions, similar to the Lyle gun I am familiar with and is of similar size and bore.
metal detector for sure in that yard lol
I boughtva cannon that an engineer found in Louisiana while working for Chevron Oil. He never shot vital but I did. Near as we can tell it came from the battle of New Orleans.
placed there 20 years ago by a yard collector.. not a pirate 200 years ago
Sure is soft dirt for being undisturbed for as long as it supposedly has been in the ground.
@@farmer9180 We bought the house and property from an estate sale. The previous owner was a tiny thin frail 94 year old woman.
I doubt she ever knew it was there or if she did know about the cannon she was not in a position to do anything with it.
The cannon was also sitting directly next to an overgrown tree under a bunch of broken limbs.
We also live by the river and all of the soil in my neighborhood is soft and loose.
Congratulations; exciting find, please share your findings once you get more info.
Looks like a British 3 pounder deck gun.
Imagine pulling it out and a bloody big galleon was attached to it
Count the tree rings on that stump next to the cannon, that will tell how long it has been there.
Looks like a signal cannon to me if your place is not far from coast could be what it is. Still better than the old horse shoes and nails I found on the old farm I bought a few years back. But my neighbors tell me to plow the area near my creek, heavy Indian activity once in the area where I live
Just remember you pick up an arrowhead etc leave something in its place like old penny.
@@bullboo1 I have never heard that before but I will do that. I can’t tell you how many arrow heads and even an axe I found when a kid at a hunting camp that was once known to be a large Indian village on the flint river. My dad would take me down there right after they plowed the fields and I probably had close to a five gallon bucket full in two years, when he divorced his then wife ( not my mom) that Bxxxxx tossed all of them! I was only like 12 but i was so mad, even more mad now that I am old.
@@VaderisOne
On public lands it is illegal to pick up Indian/Native/First Nation Artifacts.
However on private lands it is allowed so leave a gift like an old copper penny or tobacco. Just appeasement and replacement of the item in both the physical and spirit realm.
Here in Texas we have *sshats plundering new sites some the oldest in the Nation destroying sites and valuable information on movements as certain stones from other areas made it here from far away.
Dave, don’t try cleaning it yourself or polishing it without talking to a professional about this canon. You might ruin a great deal of its value if you do. Talk to Alex Cranmer from International Military Antiques, they’re in Gillette New Jersey. They’ll be able to help you figure exactly what you have.
I actually tried doing that immediately afterwards...No luck and his staff said not interested. I called a few other places and asked at our local gun shop. Best answer I could get was mild dish soap and water to remove the heavy dirt and then a liberal coat of non-corrosive gun oil to preserve. I used soft plastic brushes and towels.
It now sits atop two surplus packed WW2 parachutes inside my house as a prized conversation piece.
I am planning to build a carriage based upon the "Come and Take It!" cannon in Gonzales Texas. Their cannon very closely resembles the one I found.
Da
You are a smart man everybody else puts these comments as a yard ornament they don't realize that's a piece of history there you don't let it ride anymore than what it did they already did its job
for the size... its likely a sounding Canon or morter... the metal shows banding like its cast iron... some feracloride would reveal old stamping marks and such... typically sounding canons were buried with ships logs and other memorial items.
There were many picket forts built during the founding of the country.A short style cannon would’ve been commonly used for in a fort for protection against Indian attacks but they were also used on ships where there would be closed quarters.A cannon small enough for transport on and off ships.Im sure if you look at old illustrations of 60 lbs cannons you’ll get a better idea of what style base was used.
Awesome!
There’s no mounting, so it may be a mortar. I respect the men who had to fire that relic. If your new hobby.
Small Ships Cannon. Front Face of Muzzle should have Proofing Stamps UK
I will have to check. thanks... 🙏 I will make a video about checking the muzzle
Any foundry markings?
Great Golfball cannon😄
Where there is a cannon there is sometimes a chest of gold.
Mabie some black powder, and fuses, or at least some fireworks and whatever projectile would fit.. would make a great part 2 firing it on video
Beautiful, .
Awesome Find
The wire being across the coil may send false signals.
Nice find.
I've seen too many fake detector videos this just doesn't smell right
What does it smell like then?
Bore is way too clear to have been in the ground for very long. No matter how it ended up being there, it's a neat piece to have.
Really cool find!
Lucky man always wanted a canon
It’s a late 19th century signal cannon, used to acknowledge or draw attention to signals. Very unlikely to be a swivel gun as the bore is too narrow and it has no pivot point.
Time to go to city and county and research the history around the property.
Loads of them used as ornaments in sixties and seventies
Where are they all now?
The 1860's maybe.
Maybe it's a good idea to look for more objects along the path the cannon points
Try hooking up a garden hose to where the fuse goes and it'll get the mud out.!
Are you digging up a canon or excavating a swimming pool
Thats a big flash hole. You will get a lot of blowback from a hole that big when it fires.
If you live in Rhode Island in the Warwick area there is a known area there during the revolution where a farmer had a cannon that would be fired as a warning that the British were coming up the bay to Providence Rhode Island... What if you live somewhere else then maybe something similar was done there Small cannons were used to alert the local town that British troops were inbound this was not a combat piece but the same thing is a loud Bell !
He said something's holding it here I was like it's Gravity Dude LoL
@@CarlitoManchego the roots of the tree had grown all around it plus the dam thing weighs about quite a bit.
wife : quit playing with your cannon!. PEACE.
Well you need to share it to some mold caster's so you can multiply the cannon
Here come all the experts😂😂😂😂
What part of the country/state was this founded in
How would you mount it without trunions?
On a “U” shaped swivel mount.
New subscriber here..were there any markings on the cannon?
Looks like a signal cannon, for starting maritime races.
oh... just saw some script on the barrel like proof marks... so.. do this... take some talc or baby powder an let run down the side... the talc will settle in the shallow depression of the stamping... I had to do this for a 5-piece 1700's anvil... the stamps were not very deep back then... the metal should have rusted uniformly so the stamps r there... u just need contrast yo see them.
Another expert
actually ya I am... own a metal recreation studio of historical items specifically viking age and cival war era. my shop was involved with several other shops consulting on materials science. held several burial viking swords... had many meetings with regiments about fabrication of cannon repair... countless demos and tv appearces... turned down several opportunities to work on movies... hung out with other masters that forged the ulfburt sword.. should I go on?!?! -.- as a 30yr master bladesmith I know nothing... and many useless things... metal weapons is not one of those ;p
This thing has been laying there for a few years but certainly not two hundred .An antique that someone forgot about and left behind
I say, finders keepers.
Mount that at the front door, so that's the first thing you see entering. Lol
One lucky dude
Look around the muzzle for a date, Number and letters like L.M.F. to see if it is a Lyle Gun. Then again it could be a non-named manufactured ling throwing gun like a Lyle Gun which can be utilized like a swivel gun to throw rope to another ship or save a life. Seems to short to be an area denial swivel gun like a foot or more to short. Signal canon most likely and a nice thick strong one. Some of these better guns run 1000-8000 at auction. Don't clean or polish it.
The cannon is what would have been strapped onto the base board of a hand cart esque type carriage called a Galloper, which is a single ridden horse drawn. Gallopers were always short barrelled Robinette (1.5 inch) calibre and date back to the 1600's to 1700's. Issued to militias, the ammunition was gravel, rocks, etc. (basically, it's a giant shotgun).
Sometime, 3 of these would be strapped to the carriage and referred to as a Battery gun. Both Gallopers & Battery guns were fairly common during the 30 Years War & English Civil War. They were also used by early British colonists to the Americas for defence against the indigenous population (and the French).
You can buy 1/72 scale wargaming models of these gun as they would have looked, back in their day.
looks like a small 1 pounder swivel cannon of some sort not british possibly french
With a 1 1/2” bore, that would most likely make it a one pounder. So a round cannon ball that diameter would weigh approximately one pound. They made cannons in a multitude of lengths. The problem I see with that is it is missing trunnions, which are the metal pieces that come out of the sides, or is attached to the middle bottom, which is how it is attached the gun frame or carriage. As other people have asked, a detailed look for markings is needed. No real cannon would be made without something on it.
I think they called it Cannon Hill in Rhode Island in the Warwick area but the cannon was allegedly buried in a long trench and it was never found on the property it is probably still buried there but if you live in Warwick you may have located the can especially if you're up there on that hillside very close to route 2 and next to a large stop & Shop shopping center where route 2 and route 3 intersect...
Black powder can ignite even if it's been under water ... it just needs to be dry
The way he was digging around it I think he thought there was a ship underneath it. I would have had this thing out of the ground within the first 5 minutes of this video. He's either stringing people along making a longer video or he needed the exercise!! Ridiculous!!
@@ralphciancio1721Hi Ridiculous Ralph, Maybe there is an underlying reason for the length of the video you are not considering.
I'm actually physically disabled and am very limited by the physical activity I can do.
My daughter Paige (helping me) is severely epilepiltic and can not become overstimulated or she will have a seizure.
I started recognizing the importance of what we had discovered and had to carefully document the find while not injuring myself or giving my kid a fatal seizure while removing the cannon.
Trying NOT to kill my daughter and my own physical limitations are why the video took so long to make.
I hope this puts the context of the video into a better perspective and you can grow as a person to see things differently.
Would be nice to know the location. You near the coast it in Kansas?
Small cannon but I'm not sure about the age ....🤔⚠️😂 Reenact it buddy.
Interesting but I can't imagine how you'd fire this thing. Also, is it odd that it's cast iron? Looking forward to hearing more on your find - pretty interesting!
Thanks...yup it is cast iron. Someone just suggested to look on the muzzle for markings. I will be making a video for that and building a carriage for it.
Checkout the "come and take it cannon" in Gonzales Texas. This one is nearly identical
@@davebliler7555
What state do you live in? That might give the viewers some help in helping you identify it.
Civil War, Naval, etc. Maybe it's just a replica for exhibitions and such.
For sale?
Looks like a morter cannon from the revolutionary War.
How long ago did you bury it ?
Signal cannon from a ship. It had a swivel mount at one time.
How old is your house? Civil war or Revolutionary war old?
Signal cannon.
Which State is this?
Bore looks approximately 35-40mm?
Trivia: during the privateer wars of early America & bad ole Britian, war booty was auctioned off, Except cannon, small arms, including sabres. These useful weapons suddenly became the valued property of the victor only.
You might have purchased and old sea captains house ???
Looks like a old signal cannon
Yup that's a genuine canon alright.👍
Not a cannon - no trunions. It's a howitzer.
HELLO FROM YOUR OTHER CHANNEL! I got your invite.
As a history buff, I'm curious to know more. You say you bought a house, can you say what State is this in? You said Its hard to see, did you figure out what the casting marks are?
Hello and welcome to my side project channel... found the cannon in Pennsylvania about 250 yards from the bank of the Lackawanna River.
Working on a follow up video now
@davebliler7555 Thank you, and I'm looking forward to it!
Buy a backhoe. Ember. Dig the treasury. Gold. In spokane. Do me a favor
I'm former field artillery and I'd love to have you ship it to me
Do you have any idea how many people are yelling at u to put the damn shovel down, JUST IN CASE it's not a reproduction?
It honestly looks like a reproduction to me. A real 250+ year old cannon's iron would be severely rusted and pitted
It could be brass though but that's what I was thinking as well
I was waiting to see when that was going to come up. Doesn't look brass. There may be a lot of roots around it, but the ground doesn't seem hard enough to be 200-300 yrs. of weathered earth.
Bronze?
That would be in my living room 😂
From the initial pic (before video started) I thought it was an old wood duck call. 😅
What's with all the piddling around and dig it out already
What area of the US do you live?
Scraping around the canon & its clearly moving around. I call this video FAKE.
That’s darn cool pop’s 👍👍👍Rockford illinois here 👍
It’s been in the ground a long time dude. Stop scratching it with metal cleaning it out. Use a water hose.
It's likely a 1 pound deck cannon
Man! I'd soak it over night in apple cider vinegar and then clean it.
Prob. Rubbing alcohol. Wood lattes.
No trunnions on it though. Kind of strange.
how i found this video i don't know . but glad i did .. trunnions are the pegs sticking out of the side of the canon to better aim the canon .. trunnions were first used in the early 1500 . your canon doesn't have trunnions .. maybe your canon is a reproduction or a 1400 canon or older ,, totally cool
The cannon look to be the type used by 40 foot John boats from the War of 1812,The Joshua Barney fleet had them,and the little fleets in the northeast had them too.Read the book, "If by sea", it's one of the best books I've ever read and details many small fleet battles between the Americans and British, particularly in the New England area.Read anything by Donald G. Shomette about the Joshua Barney Flotilla in actions on the Patuxent River in the Chesapeake Bay.
If that's true then they I don't think they would have trunnions. They boxed them into the bows. You aim it by pointing the boat.
WHAT STATE IS THIS ?
Attorneys. Come to New fluckland seattle. Foreign. Ya. Gold
Nice try, but not rusty enough!
I dropped it there, it's mine!
That metal detector probably wouldn't go deep enough to find anything that would have been buried beneath the canon. If it were being used as a marker for something someone might have stashed they would have buried the stash deep like four to eight feet down. Most detectors only go a foot to about 18 inches max . Just saying. I'd have definitely dug a deep whole there just out of curiosity.
Yeah idiots would do that
Sometimes, retreating soldiers would have to abandon cannons if a more powerful adversary was in hot pursuit. In this case, it wasn't unusual for the gun crews to use hammers to knock off the iron trunnions. This was done to prevent an adversary from immediately reusing the cannon against them. US Civil War examples exist, such as the 32-pounder cast-iron cannon found at Quantico, VA, when the original parking lot at Liversledge Hall was built long before WW II. CSA troops abandoned this cannon after knocking off the trunnions with sledge hammers. Then, they buried the weapon before retreating toward Fredericksburg in January 1862, probably in hopes of retrieving it at a later date. This weapon is currently displayed outside Gerneral Officer quarters on the USMC base. Perhaps this is why the cannon in the video lacks trunnions. j
Hallo ich habe auch so eine Kanone gefunden in Deutschland.😊
DANKE DANKE! Wunderbar! Mein Opa ist Pennsylvania Deutsch undt spreken Deutsch to me as a kind...lol hopefully I said the correct. Thanks for the great comment!
I am working on a follow up video and more
@@davebliler7555 Vielen Dank...werde ihre Videos alle anschauen....liebe Grüße aus Deutschland...
I think its legit..Ive dug thousands of iron artifacts from the earth and if its in some kind of sandy soils it wouldnt rust much because of good drainage
Captain Obvious .."it's a cannon", "so I found a cannon", "it a real cannon", "I can't believe I found a cannon". ..ugh the pain is real listening say cannon. All the while I thought it was a squirt gun. ..
Ugh. Your seriously cringe. A karennof high degree. In your life no one you know will ever find a frak8n cannon . Most people you know have never seen a Canon. Sheeze . Try going out doors some time
The ground is too fluffy and lacking compaction. It looks planted for a video. It could be pulled out of the ground without the fake digging.