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I just learned of the hailshot gun (shown above). It was a handgun held against the rail of a ship when shot. It fired the square shot shown in the photo on the right. The hailshot gun seems to be rare and was used in the 16th century. One was found on the Mary Rose. [If you look up hailshot or hail gun, you'll have a hard time finding this type of gun. Instead, you'll find a lot about guns shot to prevent hail damage to crops. I didn't know about that either.]
This one comes from the following source, which asks the question if there was such a thing as naval artillery in the Modern period. The idea is that most naval artillery of the period was actually military guns brought on board rather than being designed for ships.
Here is the conclusion to the chapter.
To sum up, it can be said that artillery used on board warships of the Modern period always followed a shape previously designed for land use. Even guns made specifically for naval use, such as those made within Venetian and Genoese workshops, fundamentally followed this design. Both from surviving examples and pieces recovered from shipwrecks it seems that only swivel-guns and the hailshot cast iron guns from the Mary Rose were made for naval use. The former were made in various materials with different shapes. Some of them present unidentified marks, which have been ascribed to different areas of production
And here is the link if you want to read the entire chapter on naval artillery.
I know this illustration is too small for easy reading on the blog page, but I wanted to show it as one example of the excellent illustrations from a series of studies and a web site on the topic of archaeology related to the Coronado Trail by Nugent Brasher. While the author produced the absolutely best web site of its kind, it has one problem that holds me back from recommending it, and that is the fact that it is not encrypted and comes up marked as NOT SECURE. Therefore, instead of giving the link, I'll refer you to Nugent's several reports in the New Mexico Historical Journal, which are available online, but which are not individually nearly as easy to read or as good for our purposes as Nugent's web site.
I'll give you two options. First, is going to the New Mexico Historical Review site and searching the review using Nugent Brasher and Coronado or similar terms as keywords, or, alternately, if you are confident with your security measures, you can search for his web site using the keyword CHICHILTICALE and his name. It is a great web site with many photos of artifacts, historical background, maps and the details of his explorations.
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On Sept. 1 of this year, I reposted one of my all-time most-read posts: the story about the three-year-old who found a 16th century gold reliquary while holding a metal detector.. I posted the story again, not only because it was very popular post that I originally posted fifteen years ago and the original links, which no longer worked, needed to be replaced. That story exploded on the internet even though it is at least a fifteen-year-old story. And I'm not claiming to be the one that started it, but I've been seeing it everywhere. I just saw the story told in a foreign language with what appeared to be AI generated video that showed a metal detector coil going back and forth over a hole. That part of the video clip was obviously from some other source that had nothing to do with the story. You'll see a lot of that these days. A lot of the time a picture or video clip borrowed from somewhere on the internet will be used to embellish a post, YouTube video or whatever. The only thing about these posts that is actually from the original story is the title or plot. The rest is embellishment and often AI generated.
I was going to mention some of these internet trends anyhow. Check the illustrations. Very often they actually have nothing to do with the actual story. Also, when I see a story on the internet, I assume it is a new story, but a lot of stories, posts, or whatever, are old news - in some cases very old. And they many are online without any hint of a publication date, so you don't know how old the story is, or if it a new breaking story or not.
The first thing you'll see on my posts is the date of the post, and if I repost something I post the original link or refer to the original post. I wish all stories displayed a publication date.
But another big problem now is all the AI generated material, including videos, that give no hint that they are AI generated. You have to be careful. It is becoming very difficult to distinguish AI generated fictional material.
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The price of gold hit a new record high of $3700 per oz. this morning.
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