Mortar - "Cohorn" type, brass

Object | Part of History collection

NameMortar - "Cohorn" type, brass

ProductionH. & C. King; artillery maker(s); 1814; England

Classificationmortars, firearms

Materialsbrass, wood

Registration NumberDM000061

'Cohorn' mortar, 1814, calibre 4 1/2 inches. Mortars of this type were used by the New Zealand Armed Constabulary during the Land Wars of the 1860s.

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