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    MONS MEG AND HER SISTERS

    Sep 07, 2021 3 minutes
    By Kay Smith and Ruth R. Brown

    ossibly the most famous medieval wrought-iron cannon, Mons Meg is preserved at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. She is some 404 cm (13’ 3”) long and she fired a stone shot some 46 cm (18”) in diameter weighing in the region of 130 kg (290 lb). However, what makes her so important is the documentary evidence of her manufacture found by Claude Gaier in the archives in Belgium. He discovered that she was made in 1449 in

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