Spanish Pedrero Falcón. Small artillery piece mounted on fork. Falconet. The piece was recovered from the passage waters around 1880; He went to the property of Adrián Rotondo Nicolau, who offered it to the museum for sale in 1881. deposited in this museum by Emilio Rotondo Nicolau on March 11, 1896, he definitely donated it on April 28, 1910. These small pieces of artillery, They were mounted on a fork, and were formed by iron plates reinforced by sleeves that make up the tube whose posterior end rests on its frame, forming the bedroom from which the rabble is used to facilitate the aim by be

Spanish Pedrero Falcón. Small artillery piece mounted on fork. Falconet. The piece was recovered from the passage waters around 1880; He went to the property of Adrián Rotondo Nicolau, who offered it to the museum for sale in 1881. deposited in this museum by Emilio Rotondo Nicolau on March 11, 1896, he definitely donated it on April 28, 1910. These small pieces of artillery, They were mounted on a fork, and were formed by iron plates reinforced by sleeves that make up the tube whose posterior end rests on its frame, forming the bedroom from which the rabble is used to facilitate the aim by better holding the weapon. The cane is provided with stumps that fit into the fork, which in turn was introduced into a hole made in the gifts or falcas of the ships, hence their name. It extends by a larger cylindrical body that ends in a frame. The frame carries notches on the sides through which an iron cane is passed to hold, from behind, the bedroom that has a Alcuza shape. The bedroom has a handle for handling. The Falcon was used from the fifteenth century aboard the ships. Its dimensions varied a lot, since there were from cm. long and 70 mm. of caliber up to and 39 mm. of caliber. It was considered artillery "embarked" by nature. The gunpowder was loaded in the bedroom (Alcuza) and it was coupled in the cane, ensuring the union by means of an iron wedge. This piece (early sixteenth) is wrought iron. 73 mm caliber, length 1210 mm.; weight 95 kg. He fired 2 pound stone bullet. Caña formed by iron plate reinforced by five fogs of the same metal, whose end of contempra rests on a frame that forms the bedroom finished in a rabiza. It relies on fork that plays on the stumps that start from the bedroom testera. The falcones were armed at the edges of the ships. The server or mass is missing and the wedge to make it firm to the bedroom. Probably belonged to the Nao

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