with tapering iron barrel retained by a series of sweated-on robust iron bands, waisted at the breech end to form a nozzle, the latter enclosed by a separate tankard-shaped breech with near rectangular 'handle', iron-clad wooden bed formed with a deep channel enclosing the lower half of the barrel and breech, fitted with three rectangular iron hasps retaining the barrel, each retained by a bolt on the right and with a slotted rivet and wedge on the left, with two iron wedges behind the breech to make a gas tight seal, and an iron securing ring on the top, with brass inventory tag ‘1413’, 36.7 cm; 3.4 cm bore

Provenance

Frank Bivens