In the grounds of which building is the cannon called 'Mons 'Meg'?
Roaring Meg (cannon) of Lincoln which was used by the Romans to provide water to the city. Subsequently, the site was used for a public house, and is now the site of a large supermarket. Roaring Meg (cannon) Roaring Meg was the name of several powerful cannons used in the 17th century. It is not to be confused with Mons Meg, a medieval bombard preserved at Edinburgh Castle. Roaring Meg was a mortar cast in 1646 for the siege of Goodrich Castle. With a barrel diameter and firing a hollow ball filled with gunpowder, Roaring Meg was the largest mortar of the English
Mons Meg The gun is not called "Mons Meg" in any contemporary references until 1678. In 1489, she first appears in record as "Monss", and in the painter's account of 1539 she is called; "Monce in the castell," the only piece with an individual name. In 1650 she was noted as "Muckle Meg." "Meg" may either be a reference to Margaret of Denmark, Queen of James III of Scotland, or simply an alliteration, while Mons was one of the locations where the cannon was originally tested. McKenzie records that this class of artillery was known as a "murderer" and Mons Meg was