Decommissioned Canon

[Wasp1]

This is in another small town not too far from my place.
So I thought I would post a few shots of it at different angles.

 

[Jeff1549 49]

Nice set of images.....

 

[jcdeboever]

Wow, that's a beautiful piece of iron.

 

[Big Mike]

'Canon'....I was expecting an old camera.

Nice cannon though.

 

[tirediron]

Strictly speaking, I think that would be classified as a mortar, but very cool nonetheless!

 

[Wasp1]

Thank you to everyone replying on this.
I posted this on a facebook page and had it down as Cannon and got told its Canon.
So I thought this was the way this one went but I was wrong.
I can sort of bet you I will get this wrong one this and a few other things.
But please to be told its wrong.
And a thank you on it being a Mortar which is a fact I had no idea about.

 

[ac12]

It is cannon. Two Ns.
Definition of CANNON

I think it is a howitzer, which is a high angle indirect fire cannon.
Most modern cannons are breech loading.

The modern mortars that I know about are muzzle loading man-portable.
But there have been breech loading mortars and HEAVY mortars which needed mechanical transport or were fixed in location.

The difference between a howitzer and mortar gets distorted and mixed as one looks through past weapons.
As I read definitions, I find exceptions to that definition in real life.

 

[petrochemist118 143]

Strictly speaking, I think that would be classified as a mortar, but very cool nonetheless!

I would have said Howitzer myself.

 

[snowbear117 48]

Nice shot and neat subject.

I'll toss out "artillery."

 

[tirediron]

...I would have said Howitzer myself.

Possibly- I couldn't tell whether it was breech or muzzle-loading.

 

[ac12]

...I would have said Howitzer myself.

Possibly- I couldn't tell whether it was breech or muzzle-loading.

Yup, I tried to see the breech end, but could not see enough to figure it out.
And I'm not a cannon guy so I don't know the smaller indicators of a breech loader.

 

[SCraig]

It's a World War I 8.2" (208mm) German mortar manufactured between 1914 and 1917 according to Google photos.

 

[tirediron]

It's a World War I 8.2" (208mm) German mortar manufactured between 1914 and 1917 according to Google photos.

 

[jcdeboever]

How bout big dang gun

 

[Wasp1]

Wow it has had a lot of hits.
I had no idea bout what has been said what it is.
All I done was post the shots and it has taken a life of its own from there.