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The Association of Friends of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena (MUSAEDOMUS) is scheduled for this month presenting the part of the quarter, which will be exhibited in the museum center in a prominent place and in this case corresponds to Trabuco Borda.
The presentation to partners, supporters and press will be held on Wednesday June 22 at 19.00 on the first floor of the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro.
After the presentation of the piece, the Cartagena conference will be held from Proveeduría Armed to Capital of the Maritime Department (XVI-XVIII centuries), by David Munuera Navarro, doctor in archeology from the University of Murcia and specialized in archeology underwater.
TRABUCO OUTBOARD
The piece is exposed, the blunderbuss called overboard, is a muzzle-loading firearm, caliber, with a short, bell-shaped canyon.
It presents a chronology of the late seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth century.
The piece still has recorded the maker's mark: Eudal Cams, Ripoll (Catalonia).
This weapon was not very precise by nature, so it was more useful in Collisions during naval battles, where the fighting was at close range.
The guns could be made of brass or steel, but was not flare to increase the dispersion of the pellets but to facilitate loading of the weapon.
The bell mouth is the defining characteristic of the blunderbuss, differentiating them from the carbines.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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