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Workers dig to retrieve what is believed to be a Spanish-period cannon in Malinta town in Valenzuela City, northwest of Manila yesterday. According to Museo Valenzuela (Valenzuela Museum) curator Jonathan Balsamo, engravings on the cannon indicate that it was used as a memorial marker for one US Army Colonel Harry Clay Egbert, who was mortally wounded on March 26, 1899 while leading the 22nd US Infantry against Filipino fighters during the time of the Filipino-American war. The cannon, measuring approximately 3.05m, also had the marking of ‘Trubia 1859.’ Balsamo said the marking suggests that the cannon could have been cast in Trubia, a place in Asturias, Spain in 1859.
