{"id":371,"date":"2008-07-01T13:04:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2008-07-01T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:04:05","slug":"more-on-the-cannon-from-the-alderney-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/more-on-the-cannon-from-the-alderney-shipwreck\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the cannon from the Alderney shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times Online<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe barrel of the cannon had been plugged with a tampion of wood and sealed with candle wax by sailors more than 400 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The stale air of another age whistled out with a hiss when the seal was broken finally last week. Archaeologists gathered around the weapon could smell the gunpowder and hydrogen sulphide as it escaped.<\/p>\n<p>The cannon is one of a set that comprises the first archaeological evidence of a revolution in weaponry that took place during the reign of Elizabeth I <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times Online The barrel of the cannon had been plugged with a tampion of wood and sealed with candle wax by sailors more than 400 years ago. The stale air of another age whistled out with a hiss when the seal was broken finally last week. Archaeologists gathered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/more-on-the-cannon-from-the-alderney-shipwreck\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-re-enactments-and-re-creations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}