For a long time unlocated, the piece was rediscovered for the public at the village of Boxted in the 1970s and is now on display at the artillery collection at Fort Nelson.

[1] Some of the reinforcing rings are not completely closed, owing either to a manufacturing error or material fatigue under the strain of firing.

The short accompanying text explains that it has been fired at Eridge Green, Sussex, "for many years for the amusement of the people on a holiday or fair day" in exchange for money.

There it apparently remained in possession of a local family, untraceable to Charles ffoulkes and other 20th-century historians, until it was finally located and transferred by the Royal Armouries to the London Tower in 1979.

[6] Its size and construction technique point to the middle of the 15th century, when the production of this type of siege ordnance reached its apogee in Europe.