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Severalpartsofatieasttwotrum- pets were found on the site, namely two mouth-pieces and parts of the piping and the end of the trumpet. The trumpet end, BAT 465, is en- graved with a decorative frieze with the inscription CONRA T DROCHL
1618 MACIIT ICH. There is a small shield between MACIIT and ICH, possibly the town of Ausburg or, more likely, Nilmberg. A very simi- lar trumpet was found on the Swed- ish warship Kronan which was lost in 1676 (Karp, 1986). This trumpet was made by Michael Nagel of Nilmberg in 1654 and the details show where the fittings BAT 3765 and BA T 419 belong. Nilmberg was famous in the 17thcentury asatrum- pet-making centre. The trumpet was used on-board ships for signalling and can be seen in many 17th-cen- tury marine paintings. It is possible that in these paintings the trumpet could becoruused with a megaphone.
Parts ora trumpet 8A T419
8AT 3765
8A T465
8AT 3222 and BAT 3252
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A megaphonecanbeseeninuseinthepaintingViewoftheRoadsatHoornin1622byHendrickComeliszVroom(1566- 1640). Here, a crew member of a ship's boat, lower centre right, is using it to call to the large ship on the right. However, the trumpet cannot be mistaken in some pictures; for example, the boat in the bottom left-hand corner of the painting Battle near Gibralter by Hendrickvan Wieringen. painted in 1622, shows a person with a trumpet,presumably signalling since it is in the midst of a battle. The trumpet is also seen in peacetime, generally used on small boats carryingpassengers.
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