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Very small bronze signal cannon cast with nail, Spanish colonial, 1600s.

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Very small bronze signal cannon cast with nail, Spanish colonial, 1600s.
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Very small bronze signal cannon cast with nail, Spanish colonial, 1600s. 1 lb 6 oz, 2¾" tall and 2" in diameter. Short, crude, flat-bottomed cannons like this one were apparently in widespread use throughout the colonies but particularly in Peru, where they were fired either to send up signals or to test powder, the bore on this one about 1" and with very crude touch-hole near bottom, just below an iron nail of mysterious purpose that was cast crosswise into the cannon (its rusted ends protruding from the sides), lightly encrusted with tan sediment. Found in a colonial area of Peru.