Once used as a gun platform, the ditch and mounds near Tamar Close are an earthwork and the buried remains of an English Civil War fieldwork. Though Ronkswood has no doubt had its fair share of ...

The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns. 1859 - The first full rim-fire cartridge. 1860 - Spencer repeating carbine patented. Introduced at the start of the Civil War, Spencer repeating guns ...