FANTASTIC 18TH CENTURY ID'ED FLINTLOCK WALL GUN

BARREL 56". BORE 80. Right side of stock has carved name, Thomas Lynch. Features full length walnut stock, flintlock, leather trigger guard, brass barrel bands, proof marks look British, stamped on barrel. Metal is dark brown aged patina. Wood is very good , repaired crack at top of wrist. The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 18th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket, operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch caliber. These weapons filled a gap in firepower between the musket and the lightest artillery pieces, such as the swivel gun. This sort of weapon may also be found described as an amusette, rampart gun,"kodithuwakku",or Hackbut, a name originally given to early medieval hand cannon. Definitely, a conversation piece. A