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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy "toy" cannon of probable eighteenth or nineteenth century date (AD 1700 ? AD 1900). Length 88mm. Weight 67.61g. The toy is described as if it were a functioning cannon: The cascable or cascabel which includes the button is 12mm in length and the button has a maximum diameter of 9mm. There is no base ring and the vent field is 21mm in length with a maximum diameter of 17mm. The vent, sometimes referred to as the "touch-hole", is counter-sunk and is 3.0mm in diameter. The vent field tapers in diameter from being 17mm at the cascabel end to 15mm where it joins the first reinforce which is integral with the trunnions. The trunnions are each about 6mm in length and are circular in cross-section, 3.5mm in diameter. At the end of each trunnion are circumferential grooves that are barely visible. Beyond this reinforce with the integral trunnions is a second and third reinforce. Beyond the third reinforce is a chase which tapers from the third reinforce where it is 10mm in diameter to the muzzle where it is 8mm in diameter. The cannon is in a good condition although a patina has not survived. | 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 | Temporal: | 1700
1900 | 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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