An analysis of cloth found inside the cannon suggests that it dates to the 14th century and that the weapon was charged with gunpowder and ready to fire.
An unusual cannon found underwater off the coast of Sweden in 2001 may be the oldest shipboard gun ever discovered in Europe, a new study finds.
Rather than shooting metal cannonballs, the early cannon was designed to fire balls of rock against attackers, said study lead author Staffan von Arbin, a doctoral student in maritime archaeology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The archaeologists suggest that the cannon came from a ship that had foundered at the location, possibly after hitting the skerry — a low rock — of Kleningen, which is a few hundred feet to the south. But they also acknowledged that it could have been accidentally dropped or thrown overboard from a ship in distress.
Copper alloyThe researchers also examined the cannon's metal body with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry , a technique that ionizes a tiny sample of a substance with a high-temperature plasma and analyzes the resulting gas.
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