Dulle Griet
Giant red wrought-iron bombard from the fifteenth century, forged from iron bars bound with rings.
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This guide to Dulle Griet, the giant red bombard on Ghent's Grootkanonplein, is about the hands that made it: a fifteenth-century gunsmith from Mons working for the Duke of Burgundy, and the barrel-maker's trick he scaled up to forge it. It follows the gun from a deal between maker and duke to a riverside town and a boat ride into Ghent. Walk the full length of the barrel first, counting the iron bands as you go.
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