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Bronze long-barrel cannon (culverin)

Type Object Region Europe Time 1520

The culverin was a widely fielded European bronze long-barrel cannon of the sixteenth century, with a slimmer barrel, longer range, and caliber usual…

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  1. c. 1541–1545Antwerp–Bruges gunfounding district · FlandersIn the early 1540s, gunfoundries in Flanders and England mass-produced bronze culverins, with lengthened barrels and reduced chambers improving range and accuracy, gradually replacing some earlier short-barrel bronze cannon.
  2. c. 1546–1550English Channel and Iberian coasts · Atlantic coastBy 1550, culverins were mounted on the broadsides of English and Spanish warships as well as used in bastion batteries and siege artillery, becoming one of the most common long-barrel cannon types in mid-sixteenth-century Europe.

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