A Cape Town Tygerberg Nature Reserve tagged image from photographer – warrenski as published on Flickr.
Cannon
Image by warrenski
The gun is not the original 12-pounder Dutch signal gun, but an 8-pounder Finbanker gun donated to the Tygerberg Nature Reserve by the SA Navy in 1994. Between 53 and 56 of these guns were mounted on strategic heights to form a signal chain that extended from Salt River to Citrusdal in the North and Swellendam/Suurbraak in the East.
The purpose of this chain was to call the burghers to arms in defence of the colony.
The guns fell into disuse in January 1806.
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