An ornate mortar created by Thomas English and Co. in 1775 on the Mortar Battery of Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland. The battery was built around 1829 to display some of the collection of old weapons amassed by the Archibald Kennedy, the 12th Earl of Cassillis. I love the decorative dolphins used to hold it at the high angle which separates a mortar from a gun (the name given to a cannon which fires more or less horizontally).
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