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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy toy cannon, with a ribbed and bored barrel, two side bars or 'trunnions' and a touch hole at the closed knopped end. The bore hole is 5 mm in diameter and the touch hole is 3 mm in diameter. The trunnions would have been used to mount the cannon onto a copper alloy carriage. There is written evidence (Read, 1988, p.206) that the copper alloy examples of toy cannons were actually fired, but there is no suggestion of that in this case. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 206, No.1439, which is dated from the 18th to the 19th century.Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 37, No.13, which is dated to the 19th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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