"Medieval photography" Topic

I was with the Duke of Buckingham's Retinue at Castle Rising in Norfolk, UK, on Sunday and have added their photos to an online album of all my medieval re-enactor shots here:

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For those of you who have not visited the Richard III museum at Leicester yet I have an album here:

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That was fun. Which one is you?

That's really neat! The cannon firing was very cool although I worry about the loading procedure. That woman was very nonchalant about it. I've known more than a few Civil War re-enactors with missing digits!

@Great War Ace
None of them – I cannot be both behind the camera and in front of it simultaneously. Well, not yet anyway! :)

@maverick2909
I met them again on Sunday and they are very careful!

Maverick – I thought they were careful about these things – don't even point their pikes at each other.

I have now added some video from this year:

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Barry

Finally (and it took time) there is a much longer edit on YouTube featuring a handgun being fired from behind a pavise and the Burgundian bombard being fired twice. All nice people and very friendly.

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Thanks for sharing.

If the very light charges in those gunnes seem somewhat lackluster, don't blame the gunners, I'm sure they'd prefer to shoot off something that would move that "bombard" back a few inches at least!

@Great War Ace

Remember these re-enactor pieces are firing small blanks and blanks rarely ever cause much recoil. If a round shot were added then Newtonian principals would soon apply and to every action there would be an equal and opposite reaction. Gas pressure in the barrel would rise as the shot moved up the barrel and – as the shot gained speed – the gun barrel would jerk back by an amount proportionate to the weight of the shot, its acceleration and the rearward force all this was applying on the breech of the gun and the gun carriage itself.

If a cannister/scrap shot was being fired there would be less recoil as such shot stresses the barrel far less. An interesting point on the Mary Rose was that the 'modern' cast guns on that ship appeared to be loaded with the ship-killing roundshot while the medieval style guns, with separate breech pieces and built-up barrels, were loaded with a scrap shot made of wooden cannisters filled with flint flakes and chippings. It appears the older style guns were not trusted with the higher breech pressures associated with firing a solid shot.

Barry