This one's in Hagerstown M..

[kappullen]

This gun is displayed in Hagerstown Maryland.
It was reciently un-earthed in a garden and put on display.

The story goes it was cast for the revolution in those hills with 77 other tubes but the core was off location.

This one still has the sink head on with the off center core.

Sounds like the night shift scraped another but just hid it in the weeds
to save their butts.





This shows that cannon were cast vertically in at least some foundries.

Kap

[Cat Whisperer]

Thanks for posting it Kap!  (Hadn't heard from you in a while.)

It's an interesting piece of technology and history.

[freddo]

Thanks for that photo cappullen.
    That would be a very rare find indeed.I would feel safe in saying that there would be very few,if any such pieces to find.Such mistakes were generally broken up and recast the metal being valuable.
     This being so why was it buried or abandoned? I like your idea of the night shift spiriting it out and burying it to cover their butts.Cannons are not easily spirited and the foundry owners knew their stock however so that reason is not plausible.
    Perhaps it was as a result of some emergency What was happening around Hagerstown at the time of the war for independence?

[kappullen]

Hagerstown is pretty far inland for the Brits to have been there during the Revolution.

That area was active in the French and Indian War.

General Braddock passed through the district on his way west before his defeat in the Uniontown Pa area.

Fort Fredrick Maryland was built during that period (French and Indian War) and is within 20 miles.

Fort Fredrick today.




I don't think anyone knows the true story of that gun.

Kap