REVOLUTIONARY WAR 9-POUNDER BAR SHOT

REVOLUTIONARY WAR 9-POUNDER BAR SHOT

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Item Code: 1202-949

Much of the American Revolution took place on the seas between a budding Continental Navy and the powerful British Royal Navy. Naval gunners on both sides fired a range of specialized projectiles from their cannons to disable or destroy enemy vessels. To destroy the rigging, masts, and sails of a ship, naval gunners used the deadly “bar shot.” Either two cannonballs or two halves of a cannonball were connected by a strong iron bar. When fired, it travelled in a spinning motion that would destroy all in its path.

Offered here is a relic bar shot. Being for a “9-pounder” cannon, it measures approximately 3.9” in diameter and is nearly 9.5” long. Iron is dark brown and lightly pitted; the cross bar showing the iron “grain.” This piece has been cleaned and coated and remains solid with no flaking.

Unknown recovery location. A very fine piece of early artillery. [jet] [ph:L]

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