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Carronade cannon PICTURE GALLERY
National Museum of Scotland
This is a picture of one of the many displays of "firepower" available to Scottish armies. It is a carronade, similar in use to a cannon. The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed primarily for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK used from the 1770s to the 1860s. Due to its size and the small powder charge, the carronade was only able to project a heavy cannonball over a relatively limited distance so its use as an infantry field weapon was limited.
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