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Originally Posted by SoulManic
Sorry if my question has re-awakened an old thread but the topic cropped up recently in conversation with other dog walkers who regularly walk on the Coppice and is therefore current for me. Although not specifically stated in your reply, I take it that the general concensus is that the relic is in fact the remains of the cannon which once stood on the Coppice. The melting down of the actual cannon barrel fits in with the mass removal of park and garden railings to be melted for the war effort.
By the way, trunnions are the iron pivot lugs protruding from each side of a cannon barrel. The wooden structure is called the carriage and personally I don't agree that restoring it would be a waste of good timber. I still think it would be an interesting historical project for a local school or college but that's just my opinion. Anyone else got an opinion?
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Yes, I too got taken aback by the word trunnion used in that context.
I think a restoration or replication would be a good thing, a bit of hands-on history, but then I am probably biased. Way back I was involved in something similar - I worked as a conservator for the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth and was one of a team who cleaned the bronze cannons recovered from the wreck. An original gun carriage was also recovered and a replica was made. We also had a fibreglass replica of one of the cannon made - much lighter for taking around for display purposes!
The Mary Rose - Armament - Page 4 of 9 - Guns