In the book "Memories of Shilbottle" [Shilbottle Village Forum: Claire and Peter Brown, Sheelagh Hume and Elisabeth Haddow - Joint editors] it states for 1918:
"...The council wished to acquire a German trophy for Shilbottle. It was agreed that a captured German gun, if possible, one captured by the 'Northumberlands' would serve as a memento of the Great War". The book then shows an old postcard of "The Cannon" but this is an ancient muzzle loading cannon (with a goat next to it - don't ask me!) more familiar to castle battlements or 18c warship wrecks. The card shows the cannon* within sight of the church tower. Anyway, it's not a German field gun or howitzer that's for sure. So did Shilbottle get a WW1 gun? If they did that would make 7 we know about in the local vicinity?
[ *Must be an interesting story attached to
ye olde Shilbottle cannon?]
edit:
knew the photo was on-line somewhere