Roaring Meg is the name given to several powerful cannons used in the 17th century, not to be confused with the medieval bombard Mons Meg preserved at Edinburgh Castle. The best-documented Roaring Meg is a mortar cast at the Howbrook furnace and forge near Lydbrook, England, in 1646, with a barrel 15.5 inches in diameter that fired a hollow, gunpowder-filled ball weighing about 220 pounds; it has been on display at Goodrich Castle since 2004. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Roaring Meg was the name of several powerful cannons used in the 17th century.
Used In: English Civil War, Article text: sections
With a 15.5-inch (390 mm) barrel diameter and firing a 2 long cwt (220 lb; 100 kg) hollow ball filled with gunpowder, Roaring Meg was the largest mortar of the English Civil War.
In Group: Early Modern Cannon and Mortars, Lead sentence
Roaring Meg was the name of several powerful cannons used in the 17th century.
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