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Description: | Complete but slightly damaged cast copper alloy "toy" cannon of probable eighteenth or nineteenth century date. Length 103mm. Weight 56.37g. The toy is described as if it were a functioning cannon: The cascable or cascabel which includes the button is 11mm in length and the button has a maximum diameter of 7mm. A pronounced base ring is 15mm in diameter. The vent field is 7mm in length with a maximum diameter of 11mm and the vent, sometimes referred to as the "touch-hole", is crudely counter-sunk and is 1.0mm - 1.5mm in diameter. In plan, the sides of the vent field are concave in profile. An astragel dividing the reinforce from the vent field is 4mm long and has a maximum diameter of 13mm. The reinforce is 23mm in length and 11mm in diameter. This part has some old damage in the form of a large dent. There is a second reinforce integral with each of the trunnions. The overall length of the trunnions is 32mm and each one is about 3.5mm in diameter. The chase, which is 37mm in length, tapers from being 10mm in diameter adjacent to the trunnions to 9mm in diameter at the muzzle end. At the narrow end of the chase is a second astragel which has a length of 2mm and a diameter of 6.5mm. Although the muzzle is damaged and slightly squashed, its maximum diameter can be estimated to have been about 14mm. It has a flared muzzle which terminates with a distinctive muzzle moulding. In plan, the sides of the field between the second astragel and the muzzle moulding are concave in profile. The bore flares and at the muzzle end it is estimated to have been about 7mm in diameter prior to being squashed. The cannon appears to be in a fair condition and there are traces of a brown patina on the button, the vent field and the muzzle. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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