Iron in Ancient India c6.s8.16

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He says, "it was made of hammered iron; it being an immense tube formed of 14 bars, with rings of 2 or 3 inches wide driven over them, and hammered down into a smooth surface, so that its appearance was equal to that of the best executed piece of brass ordnance, although its proportions were faulty. The gun contained 234,413 cubic inches of wrought iron and consequently weighed 64,814 pounds avoirdupois, or about the weight of eleven 32-pounders. Weight of an iron shot from the gun, 465 pounds." Local tradition names the gun as *Kāley Khān*, a gun of that name being mentioned by the Venetian traveller Manucci in the list of big cannon possessed by the great Moghul in the seventeenth century.²