Huge request - Bring me iron evidence that stone cannons were generally fired from cannons.
I'll make a reservation that everything I write is a reason for dialogue. In the words of Socrates - Truth is born only in a dispute. Therefore, all my articles are valuable primarily for comments.
In the comments to my previous articles about cannonballs, there are interesting versions of their origin. In the sense that they were not made with a chisel, but assembled ready-made. So where did you get them from?
1) "Balls of the Gods", Watermelons of Elijah the Prophet "," Concretions"
This phenomenon has many names. They are scattered all over the world. Different sizes - from a pea to multi-ton colossus.
Scientists do not know the nature of their origin. Otherwise, they would not have written like this:
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These balls are not only made of sediment and not only in one place on the planet. They are almost everywhere. And lava and sedimentary and just stone and "cast" and hollow. Where scientists consider their origin to be artificial - made by human hands - there is no sense of their use - why were they made?
2) Ball mills. I haven’t found a drawing of the ancient, but why not be?
This is a spinning drum filled with balls like this and what needs to be ground. Ore for smelting, for example.
Of course, the issue of their production still remains, but it is possible that not ideal balls were quite enough for these mills, and in the process of operation they were rolled in to such a state as in the photo above and the spent ones were thrown away. For losing weight. And modern archaeologists consider these balls to be stone cores.
There were also such versions as - ancient bearings, molten rocks dripping into water and solidified in a form close to a ball, subsequently treated with water. There were also theories that these cores were cast from concrete.
However, I did not find any confirmation at all.
3) The destructive power of nuclei is very small
Throwing machines such as Trebuchets, Ballist
Throwing huge blocks far enough. And to make them you only need wood and ropes (well, mostly of course). They can be collected, transported, disassembled. Replace the broken part.
But in order to cast a cannon - here we need technologies for melting and casting metal, calculations + gunpowder to come up with and make + nuclei of the required diameter for the barrel. So why bother with guns? Well, ships are fine. And on land?
What if the conspiracy theorists are right, what if guns are not weapons of destruction at all, or weapons of destruction, but not by the force of a cannonball?
