Stern gun possibly from the Schiedam

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Covered in a crust of iron corrosion with embedded beach gravel, and some larger slates, this object was found on Jangye-ryn, Gunwalloe, in 2019 by local historian Robert Felce. Bob identified it as a ship’s deck gun, from its size and form; he found several encrusted grenades too, also modelled by ‘Wreck and Rescue’.

As it was washed up on the beach nearby, the gun probably came from the Schiedam, wrecked close to the shore in 1684. It could have been mounted to defend this merchant ship, which had been taken as a ‘prize’ by the English, and shortly before that captured by pirates.

3D scanned by Tom Goskar (@tomgoskar) as part of the Wreck and Rescue at Gunwalloe project commissioned by Cornwall Archaeological Unit (CAU) and funded by Historic England to mark the 50th anniversary of the Protection of Wrecks Act, 1973.