Some time in the late 1500s, a lid was added to the flash pan ... The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German ...
By the mid-1500s, some soldiers no longer used portable cannons, instead carrying lighter weapons such as wheellocks, muskets and matchlocks, Seymour said. But the cannon was still light enough ...