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Description: | Cast copper-alloy toy cannon. Post-medieval, c. 17th-18th century. Length: 52.9mm; mass: 16.3g. Cast in one piece with a tapering, circular sectioned breech which flares out at the end and a tapering, circular sectioned cascabel with a spherical button at the other end. There is a circular hole at the cascabel end and a trunnion projecting from either side of the breach. There are a series of circumferential mouldings on the breach. Similar toy cannons are included in "Toys, Trifles and Trinkets", Egan, 2005, p.79-84.
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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