A recent search of the internet for information on Roman artillery machines returned, amongst other results, a website with a page...

The Gunners' Equipment In Part One, where we established the background to building our replica cannon. In describing the firing drills...

Burnswark Hill Approaching across the gentle surrounding Dumfriesshire countryside it is hard to miss the brooding eminence of Burnswark...

Projectiles In Parts One to Three of this "How to:" series we established the background to and how we went about building our scale...

The Gun Carriage In Part Two we looked at seven steps to building a barrel for a replica naval gun that was both lightweight and portable....

The Gun Barrel The core element, the cannon's barrel, is so named because the earliest guns were constructed with iron staves bound...

The Background History Part One of this series begins with a very brief look at the history of a typical naval gun in use with the Royal...

Until the advent of gunpowder, the trebuchet (French: trébuchet) was a common powerful siege engine that used a long arm to throw a...

When schools in the UK take their half-term break in February, we have been lucky, for the last few years, to visit Cyprus. Although a...

The design of Dionysios of Alexandria’s 'Polybolos' is somewhat unique in the annals of ancient artillery. The very name 'Polybolos' or...

The sole mention of the arcuballista occurs in the work of Vegetius (Epitoma rei militaris)[1]. In book II.15, when describing how the...

A major source of information for Roman artillery is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st century BC Roman author, architect, civil and...

Many years ago, long before I joined The Roman Military Research Society (or RMRS), a teacher inspired his pupils to build a catapulta,...